Many residents of villages and villages still hold horses on the farmstead. But, as we know, these animals are subject to many illnesses though most of them can be treated successfully folk remedies.
At you will bend (capellet) of a sole or an arrow in the form of bruises - it is necessary to clean off the struck layer, to wash a wound with the diluted alcohol, to grease for disinfection with birch tar and to bandage pure birch bark; wash a hoof with camomile infusion, do of it lotions. When rotting an arrow to clear away it is whenever possible deeper, to do bathtubs of 3% of solution of carbolic acid or kreoline, or licked; to dry and fill up an arrow in a groove powder of alum, or oak bark, copper vitriol. It is possible to fill in at first tar, and then to fill up copper vitriol, to stop up with cotton wool or tow.
At a zakovka - to unchain a horse, to clear away the place of a prick, to fill in with iodine tincture, to attach the fresh or steamed-out dried sheet of a plantain and to tie up a hoof, refreshing a bandage with a plantain 3-4 times a day. The place of a zakovka can also be washed out vinegar with salt, to fill in with linseed oil with the kindled wax and from above to pitch or weld a millet and to put hot.
For softening of a dry hoofed horn it is possible to put a horse seven days in a row in a hole with the cow manure covering hooves. Also the boiled repny seed mixed with fresh lard or unsalted butter helps; warm mix is put to hooves and tie with their pure matter. It is possible to prepare goat - to rub mix of oil of the wooden and kindled wax and fat warm mix in a hoof.
At cracks of hooves if they from below, it is necessary to remove a horn as much as possible, to mix sulfur with goat fat, to warm and fill in with this hot structure a crack. To ground a leg, filling under a horseshoe of the hempseed oil mixed with egg white. The cracks going from above from a nimbus cauterize red-hot iron, fill in with the kindled sulfur and cover with fat or pitch. From cracks the istolchenny hempy or podorozhnikovy seed welded in goat or mutton fat with which in a warm look cover around a hoof helps.
The hoof helps to let grow ointment from mix of old pork and goat fat, vegetable oil and wax. If when cleaning a sole of a hoof the heat or a splinter (glass, a fragment of a piece of iron) is noticeable, then immediately it is necessary to pull out a foreign subject, to flood the place of a prick with hot fat, tincture of iodine, diamond greens and to bandage a hoof.
The feeding mares can have an inflammation of an udder (mastitis), expressed in hardening of morbidity, heat. In this case on an udder it is necessary to make a warm poultice of the flowers of a camomile razvarenny in boiled water; poultices do 2-4 times a day, and in intervals between them oil an udder camphor.
At some horses hair plentifully drop out of a tail and a mane. For their growth cook juicy fir cones ointment in butter (1:3) and densely grease roots of hair on a crest of a neck and on a repitsa of a tail.