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RE: [RC] Poultice/ice - Kitley, Carrie E Civ USAF AFSPC 30 MDSS/SGSLFAlso, if one is handy or if you have a water tank on your trailer, you can just turn cold water from the hose on the horse's legs for awhile. Walk him/her around, then do it again in an hour or so. Someone else said standing your horse in a stream or creek if one is near. :) Carrie Kitley <\_~ // \\ carrie.kitley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx? -----Original Message----- From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sharon Levasseur Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 1:17 PM To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [RC] Poultice/ice Thanks everyone, you're underscoring what I've started to suspect. Based on what I've done so far, I think my gelding does much better with COLD than with wrapping. I have never been taught to "wrap", per se, so I don't dare go there. For the last year or more, after our 50-milers I've done cold-water-soaked Boomers' Bandages over clay poultice with no saran wrap between... and it has worked fairly well. I started doing it after a suggestion from a Ridecamper. But, I was getting tired of how dirty the wraps got, and that they didn't stay on too well. So this last time I wrapped with poultice and saran wrap under the same Boomers' Bandages, but without the cold-water soak, and when the wraps came off all his legs were warm and filled! Soooo, I'm thinking it was the coolness more than the poultice that was doing the trick. I'm thinking about getting some Extend-a-Cool or ColdFlex wraps but right now I can't afford either so I'll just bring some extra extra buckets and buy more ice. :-) Thanks y'all! -Sharon L. in Maine Quoting Marirose Six <6mules@xxxxxxxxx>: I agree with you, Sheila, wrapping properly makes a BIG difference. I will wrap with a cly poultice after a 100 or maybe a FAST 50. BUT, I know how to wrap a leg evenly ( no pressure points) with good, even, tension, but not too tight. I'm a believer in, if you're unsure if you can wrap properly, then don't wrap. On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:37 AM, <Sheila_Larsen@xxxxxxx> wrote:I wrap my horses legs after an endurance or very very hard training ride with a clay poultice. However, I do know how wrap legs very well, it drives me crazy to see bad leg wrapping. I figure my horses work hard for me and I want to prevent filling. Some people say "I want to see if they have filling." I however want to prevent filling. I have not had heat buildup using a clay poultice although once I used a green jelly and the legs were warm when I unwrapped, no filling though. At that point I just decided to use the clay. Probably a personal choice. Thanks, Sheila 916.414.6685 Horses lend us the wings we lack. Author Unknown =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- Marirose Yeeeeeee Hawwwww =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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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