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A horse in Bend, Oregon made me try a hoof oil my granddad called snake oil.
This gelding had dry, cracked hooves and the owner insisted on this weird mix with pine tar and lanolin, which I thought was just old-timey nonsense. After two months of using it, his feet looked better than they had in a year, with a solid shine and no new cracks. Has anyone else had a folk remedy surprise them like that?
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emmag406mo ago
Totally get that. My old mare had a stubborn case of scratches on her pasterns, and a friend's mom told me to just use plain old bag balm, the kind in the green tin. I rolled my eyes but was desperate. Cleared it up in a week when the fancy vet creams did nothing. Sometimes that old farm wisdom just works, you know?
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kai5646mo ago
Honestly, that green tin stuff is basically just lanolin and petroleum jelly. I bet the real trick was keeping the area clean and dry first, then slapping on that thick balm as a barrier. The fancy creams might have worked if the skin wasn't already too angry for the active stuff to settle in.
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