Would you use out of date pig oil and sulphur?

[Trekker]

i got my pig oil and sulphur out my shed to use on my cobs feathers later to help keep feather mites away, The vet has given him a dectamax injection today also. I noticed the flowers of sulphur yellow powder has got 2013 use date on.. But I can't see a use by date on the pig oil. Would you still use both of them? Also I'm not sure of how much flowers of sulphur powder to pig oil to use.. It's been a while. Any advice on feather mites welcome.

 

[Thistle]

I would use it and not worry

 

[Ditchjumper2]

Use it, I would.

 

[ester]

Yes! It doesn't go off at all!

And the queen of pig oil and sulphur on here used to say to get it like an emulsion paint I think.

 

[PorkChop]

Yes, I would use it

 

[mandyroberts]

I'm out voted but no I wouldn't

 

[Shay]

Use by dates have gone mad! Yes - of course use it. The worst that could possibly have happened to the flowers of sulphur (if separate from the pig oil) is that they got a bit damp and have gone clumpy. It doesn't suddenly stop being flowers of sulphur on 1st Jan 2004 and you are hardly going to eat it!

 

[ester]

I'm out voted but no I wouldn't

Why,

the sulphur has been mined out of the ground where it has been hanging around for ages, it isn't going to change just because it has been put in a plastic tub. I'm amazed it has a date on it tbh!

 

[Annagain]

Yes, but then I eat all sorts of out of date foods. My record is a yoghurt 6 months out of date. It was fine. Educating people about what to look for would be so much more productive than all these arbitrary dates.
(for info, the lid of a yoghurt will blow up when it goes off as it releases gas)

 

[3OldPonies]

You ate a yoghurt that far out of date - OMG if I did that I'd be in the bathroom for a week!!!!!!!

btw - I'm not one of those wusses that chucks something out if a date has been passed, the bloomin food doesn't look at a calendar and go to itself 'oh, its the 30th today, I'd better go mouldy and start poisoning people'. But 6 months out of date on a yoghurt - you sure are a brave person annagain!

 

[MiJodsR2BlinkinTite]

Sorry, just being a fussy hen, but just an advisory word if anyone who hasn't used pig oil & sulphur comes across this thread........... to do PLEASE patch test if using on your horse for the first time.

I'd read about it in other threads on here a while ago, and not knowing what might happen, used it on my boy. He has pink skin & white legs. It brought him up in a very nasty pink reaction. My poor boy I wished so much that I'd known what caustic stuff it can be and that I should've patched tested it first.

So just warning anyone that hasn't used it on theirs before........