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Re: [RC] Summer sores - mjwest02I give my horse FLAX SEED along with her beet pulp and ultium daily. She had been a "stalled" horse but last May I put her outside. I did put the fly mask on, but never had any problems with fly bites, sores, etc. I have heard that FLAX seed is very good for repelling/healing and it gives a wonderful coat. Any other good things that FLAX SEED can do?
I have bought this ground and keep refrigerated. I just bought whole seed and am wondering if I should grind it - also - whether ground or whole, would the same amount be fed?
Thanks - Mary -----Original Message----- From: Julie Fuller <natira121@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Ridecamp <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 12:48:45 -0800 Subject: [RC] Summer sores I had a gelding who got summer sores every year, though he was healthy, happy, and wormed properly and regularly. He got the sores on his neck, chest and shoulders, and would rub on anything to scratch the itch, usually sappy pine trees. Ugh. So, starting before fly season every year (and I lived next to a dairy, so fly season was nearly year 'round for us in the NW unless we had a bad winter) I would keep the affected areas covered in a mixture of fly spray and baby oil. Yeah, it was messy, but it kept him from turing into a mass of pitchy, scabby, oozing skin several months out of the year. I tried fly lotions first, but found they didn't stay on well due to sweat. And the fly spray/oil was much cheaper. I still keep around a dish detergent bottle of oil and fly spray for that nasty time in summer when the flys go for udders, teats, sheaths, and that little strip of ultra tender skin along the belly centerline. W e have these nasty little flys (perhaps horn flys?) that will literally cover these areas, and draw blood. Julie =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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