Terminology?

[Gloi]

How about vinegar and whiting mixed to make a cooling paste for tendons. Spreading kaolin poultice out of a tin on to brown paper and then heating it up under the grill! You really had to be careful the paper didn't catch fire and then you had to wait until the kaolin was cool enough to put on the wound.

Whiting? . A fishy story.

 

[The Fuzzy Furry]

I remember using vinegar for cooling the legs.

Used to use lead lotion onto gamgee and bandaged on overnight, 70s.

Also Ruby wormer in the 70s, bots were expelled and easily seen as they were red!

 

[Lois Lame]

When I’m doing flat work it’s flat work (ie no jumping) but someone recently said they were going to do “dressage”. They were only riding very normally around the ménage (outdoor school ) but to them it’s called dressage???

Dare I say it's only nuffnuffs who say that?

 

[rabatsa]

How about vinegar and whiting mixed to make a cooling paste for tendons. Spreading kaolin poultice out of a tin on to brown paper and then heating it up under the grill! You really had to be careful the paper didn't catch fire and then you had to wait until the kaolin was cool enough to put on the wound.

We stood the tins of kaolin in hot water to heat them up. Then burnt our fingers holding the tin to scoop the stuff out.

 

[HJJ]

OK, showing my age here - all of the following were part of my childhood - quartering, thatching under a string vest sweat rug, whisping, strapping, boiling linseed for bran mashes, feeding bruised oats, only wormer available came in a packet of granules, jute stable rugs, stiff canvas NZ rugs, sausage boots, exercise bandages over gamgee for Hunter Trials - the list goes on...........

All of these... sausage boots, I'd forgotten about those!

 

[rabatsa]

Yorkshire boots were a mainstay in the tack room.

 

[onemoretime]

Used to use lead lotion onto gamgee and bandaged on overnight, 70s.

Also Ruby wormer in the 70s, bots were expelled and easily seen as they were red!

Yes lead lotion, came in little paper packets in a box.

 

[onemoretime]

We stood the tins of kaolin in hot water to heat them up. Then burnt our fingers holding the tin to scoop the stuff out.

Yes I remember it was so messy. Also bran poultice and the horse would rip of the poultice and eat the bran

 

[onemoretime]

Yorkshire boots were a mainstay in the tack room.

Made of felt and they folded over.

 

[humblepie]

Still have some Yorkshire boots in blue felt, like you do.

 

[The Fuzzy Furry]

Yes lead lotion, came in little paper packets in a box.

We had it in a huge brown glass bottle, it got decanted into smaller bottle for ease of use.