Is this completely nuts???? I have never heard of such a thing.... [Archive]

hunter-jumper-rider

Dec. 30, 2007, 11:13 PM

There is a mare at my barn that is a 5 year old Arab. She popped a splint in turnout and the vet the owner uses put her on FULL stall rest for 4 weeks. No paddock, no turnout, no hand walking, JUST the stall for one month.

Then, the same vet told the owner to use a 16 inch rolling/baking pin on the splint for ten minutes a day and to just "roll" the splint with the pin like you would when you were baking.........

Is this vet on crack??????? I have never in my life heard of such a thing. I am very open to opinions that state it's effectiveness or evidence to the contrary, but this seems totally off the wall crazy to me!

I am beginning to think people at this barn are nuts, the trainer agrees with this treatment also :confused:

donkeyman

Dec. 30, 2007, 11:41 PM

Believe it or not fresh splints can be addressed by scrubbing preparation H with a toothbrush on it twice daily...it really works

The stall rest I agree with because it popped a splint when turned out. The rolling pin is odd though

Fairview Horse Center

Dec. 30, 2007, 11:43 PM

Stall rest for a splint is a treatment I have not heard of for well over 30 years, unless it is definitely interfering with a joint.

If I find a splint, I just don't work the horse until cold, and not tender to touch, but they are on full turnout, no treatment.

EqTrainer

Dec. 30, 2007, 11:43 PM

I'm going with the crack theory.

sublimequine

Dec. 30, 2007, 11:49 PM

I'm going with the crack theory.

:lol:

BuddyRoo

Dec. 31, 2007, 12:15 AM

Anyone got a light?

Ghazzu

Dec. 31, 2007, 12:24 AM

An alternative is to rub it with a spoon. :D

joiedevie99

Dec. 31, 2007, 12:35 AM

I guess the rolling pin is just an interesting way of increasing blood flow to the area- though I can think of many better ways. I've never seen a horse put on full stall rest for a splint though. A trainer of mine changed one from group turnout on a hill to solitary turnout in a flat area after he popped one in the field, but he never had to stay in.

BuddyRoo

Dec. 31, 2007, 12:38 AM

True, Ghazzu....or one could hop on one foot, pat their head and rub their tummy, right?

hunter-jumper-rider

Dec. 31, 2007, 12:43 AM

Seriously........this Vet is whacked out, cracked out whatever you want to call it :lol:. My trainer from my old barn told me some very interesting stories about this vet, she is a total joke and NOBODY listens to me at the barn. They all think she is the greatest.....oh well, I guess I should not care because she is not my Vet, that is for sure.

hunter-jumper-rider

Dec. 31, 2007, 12:44 AM

An alternative is to rub it with a spoon. :D

The splint or the crack???? :lol::lol::lol:

BarbB

Dec. 31, 2007, 12:44 AM

I agree that the vet is on crack.
And my advice to the owner is to take two aspirins and follow BuddyRoo's advice:

True, Ghazzu....or one could hop on one foot, pat their head and rub their tummy, right?

hunter-jumper-rider

Dec. 31, 2007, 01:12 AM

The owner was totally snotty and rude when I even DARED to question why the vet would suggest such a thing! And I did say it nicely (not as a snarky rant as I did on here ;))

kellyb

Dec. 31, 2007, 01:18 AM

The owner was totally snotty and rude when I even DARED to question why the vet would suggest such a thing! And I did say it nicely (not as a snarky rant as I did on here ;))

Well then you'll have the last laugh as the owner takes her rolling pin to her horse (who will be looking at her like WTF) :lol:

lstevenson

Dec. 31, 2007, 01:53 AM

Then, the same vet told the owner to use a 16 inch rolling/baking pin on the splint for ten minutes a day and to just "roll" the splint with the pin like you would when you were baking........

:lol: Now I've heard everything! I would love to follow that vet around, and see what other gems she has. :lol:

Buffyblue

Dec. 31, 2007, 02:02 AM

Sounds like an interesting way to perform a massage to the area. Maybe she just finished watching Martha Stewart before she came to the barn!

Dressage4Fun

Dec. 31, 2007, 04:15 AM

ddddddefinatly crack....

We have an ER Doc that scripts Robatusin for asthma,,,, wonder if they went to the same school???

ChocoMare

Dec. 31, 2007, 07:24 AM

J Swan

Dec. 31, 2007, 08:27 AM

baileygreyhorse

Dec. 31, 2007, 08:57 AM

Sounds kind of odd to me. But... there is a massage stick sold for human athletes that lots of people use and rave about. It's called "The Stick". Great marketing there. Anyway, it seems to be a good massage option. http://thestick.com/home/index.cfm

Not sure about a rolling pin. I had a vet tell me years ago that sometimes (with some owners) he would prescribe tasks for the owner. Nothing that would hurt the horse (or really do anything), just to give them something to do. His favorite was "walk him up that hill 6 times a day". Did nothing really except provide the owner a way to be involved. And got the horse some more human interaction. Maybe the same with the rolling pin. Or maybe the vet has been dippinig into that Special K(etamine).

ReeseTheBeast

Dec. 31, 2007, 09:36 AM

Or maybe the vet has been dippinig into that Special K(etamine).

The splint or the crack???? :lol::lol::lol:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

AnotherRound

Dec. 31, 2007, 10:07 AM

This I gotta see. Get pictures! :D

Now that would be funny. You ready with a camera, she's got the horse in crossties and is bending over with a wooden rolling pin, and then hears "click"! Then a "Click, click, click," as you move around her in a semi-circle, then and a " whirrrrr" as you set the film to rewind and she straightens up and you are grinning "Sorry. I told several other horse folks about this and they begged to see it with their own eyes. Very well done, by the way. Couldn't have rolled it out better myself. I just would use one of those marble rolling pins, but hey, that's me. Enjoy your walk with him today. I gotta go get this developed. See ya!"

cinder88

Dec. 31, 2007, 10:46 AM

Just for future reference...how big is this horse?

If it were a pony, would you use a 12" rolling pin, or is the 16" mandatory?

And a mini...would I need to buy a Betty Crocker oven for the teeny rolling pin?

Cinder

AnotherRound

Dec. 31, 2007, 12:13 PM

I really think in this case you should ask slc - I think she just did/built/had/trained/rode that. Or will be able to quote someone famous who knows all about that. :cool:

Calamber

Dec. 31, 2007, 12:28 PM

All I have to say is OUCH!!!! That would hurt on a green splint, let's hope it is just a "popped splint" and not actually broken. Good grief, maybe she should use the rolling pin on the vet, hopefully on some bruise or sprain. Now I have heard everything, that having been said, she could probably come up with some more "treatments" that are just the nouveau thing to do.

AnotherRound

Dec. 31, 2007, 12:36 PM

Yeah. Maybe roll that pinhead flat. :)

Ghazzu

Dec. 31, 2007, 12:50 PM

Now I have heard everything, that having been said, she could probably come up with some more "treatments" that are just the nouveau thing to do.

That's the thing though--it's not "nouveau"--it's quite archaic.
This is the first time I've heard of using a rolling pin, but my reference to using a spoon was from hearing this as a child.
I believe a piece of bone was also sometimes recommended for rubbing (somewhat like the old process of "boning" waxed calfskin riding boots with a stag's shin bone).

hunter-jumper-rider

Dec. 31, 2007, 01:19 PM

Now that would be funny. You ready with a camera, she's got the horse in crossties and is bending over with a wooden rolling pin, and then hears "click"! Then a "Click, click, click," as you move around her in a semi-circle, then and a " whirrrrr" as you set the film to rewind and she straightens up and you are grinning "Sorry. I told several other horse folks about this and they begged to see it with their own eyes. Very well done, by the way. Couldn't have rolled it out better myself. I just would use one of those marble rolling pins, but hey, that's me. Enjoy your walk with him today. I gotta go get this developed. See ya!"

You guys are all seriously making me laugh my ass off. I would TOTALLY take pictures but since the Vet told these freaks "STALL REST" they do not take the mare out (so I can snap said pictures:D) The daughter was in the stall yesterday with the mare and I was walking by with my colt and I heard the mom say "OK, it's been 10 minutes at least, you can stop rolling her now." The daughter walks out of the stall with the rolling pin in hand and saying that it is working!!! Wow ma, just like baking cookies!

Oh yes, did I mention the mother has a bleached platinum MULLET!!!!!!! ROFLMAO.....

Gray Horse H/J

Dec. 31, 2007, 01:33 PM

You guys are all seriously making me laugh my ass off. I would TOTALLY take pictures but since the Vet told these freaks "STALL REST" they do not take the mare out (so I can snap said pictures:D) The daughter was in the stall yesterday with the mare and I was walking by with my colt and I heard the mom say "OK, it's been 10 minutes at least, you can stop rolling her now." The daughter walks out of the stall with the rolling pin in hand and saying that it is working!!! Wow ma, just like baking cookies!

Oh yes, did I mention the mother has a bleached platinum MULLET!!!!!!! ROFLMAO.....

:lol: :lol: :lol:

kookicat

Dec. 31, 2007, 03:03 PM

tidy rabbit

Dec. 31, 2007, 03:33 PM

Excuse me, but I resent the Martha Stewart jab.

Everyone knows that Martha would use a springerle rolling pin. ;):cool:

Y'all are sooooo untrendy when it comes to fashionable veterinary rolling pin treatments!

I bet if you smacked the horse in the head with it - it would be broke in the face, too. So you could roll the splint and then alternate by giving the horse a few whacks on the head.

I'm not sure why, but you made me totally crack up with this post!

I guess I'm envisioning a little Arab with long mane and tail and a dish in it's face looking completely dumbfounded.

Dinah-do

Dec. 31, 2007, 03:46 PM

If you can find a very old bottle of "Bone Radiol" in the back of a medicine cabinet there are instructions for rolling splints and curbs. I think we (my age as kids) used old pill bottles but I remember an old timer saying to use corn cobs. Rolling splints is a blast from the past - long before crack . Any one know what was in Bone Radiol?

Ghazzu

Dec. 31, 2007, 03:50 PM

Any one know what was in Bone Radiol?

Camphor BP 12g/l
Menthol 19g/l
Strong liquid ammonia BPC 0.7ml/l
Guiacol BPC 135g/l
Creosote 45g/l
Glycerine BP 48.3g/L

Dinah-do

Dec. 31, 2007, 03:58 PM

Very impressive - where did you find that list Ghazzu?

penhille

Dec. 31, 2007, 04:00 PM

When I worked in England, they used a strong Iodine and something else mix on the splints, old or new, to "burn" them off. Apply 2X daily and when the skin blistered, they knew it was enough. Worked, but jeezles. I'm trying to imagine putting something that burns on my guy now, who is so sensitive he doesn't even like hoof oil. The smell and the sensation on his coronet band are too much for him to handle, much less pain!

Ghazzu

Dec. 31, 2007, 04:02 PM

Very impressive - where did you find that list Ghazzu?

An Australian horse supply website.
I'd imagine it hasn't changed much since the old days. (yes, I recall seeing a dusty bottle on the tackroom shelf years ago.)

PaintByNumber

Jan. 1, 2008, 03:54 AM

I'm all for breaking the video camera out and posting the video on YouTube!

horsepowerco

Jan. 1, 2008, 07:28 AM

ROFLMAO....H/J rider...did the vet mention if you should lightly dust the splint area with All Poup flour first? Or should the area be greased first then floured?

LMAO You know as a TRIED and TRUE OSU Buckeye fan theres a joke around here about Michigan U....

How do you make Michigan Cookies....?
Put them in a BOWL and beat them for 3 hours!

In this case...
How do you fix a splint?
Get out the baking equip. and roll the shit out of it! BAWWWHAHWWWWW :)
BTW you may want to wear a good helemt to protect ones DENSE head since its going to hurt like a B*&^H when you start rolling on a fresh splint! OUUUUCH.

Sannois

Jan. 1, 2008, 07:39 AM

I would chase that Vet out of the barn with the Rolling pin.. What are they doing rolling pie dough??:rolleyes:

goeslikestink

Jan. 1, 2008, 02:27 PM

tendering is what its called-- like a rough bit of meat you bash it or roll it to tender the meat
flattening it out---------

vets a crack pot unless shes got confused with cooking meats
wonder what she uses in the kitchen if a rolling pin up the yard
ummm

horse shoes- they make pretty cut outs in pastry - haha

Bluey

Jan. 1, 2008, 02:39 PM

At the track, some trainers did blister a splint, a bow, most anything like that, with the blessing of their vets.

I heard a vet once comment that blistering was a way to give a horse a rest period, so it would not be worked until healed, that in itself blistering had questionable results.
What a way to just say NO EXERCISING for x days/weeks!:eek:

hunter-jumper-rider

Jan. 1, 2008, 03:51 PM

I brought my camera to the barn yesterday.....but sadly no sightings of the owner or the rolling pin. I swear if I see them today, I am not going to be able to contain myself especially after laughing so hard at all of your comments :lol:. I wish they would take her out of the stall to do it. I was thinking I could just take the picture of them doing it and telling them I am making a "Barn Collage" of the good times and bad with all of the horses/owners :lol: These people would probably believe me.......I mean they believed the rolling pin crap and are doing it with such vigor and determination it is REALLY pathetic. Even more annoying is that the mullet wearing mom is a total bit*h when you dare question her precious Vet on anything.

horsepowerco

Jan. 1, 2008, 04:31 PM

You didnt just say Mullet? UHT UHHH you did not just say Mullet! MY GOD whats this poor horses Foretop and Mane look like? You know what they say about owners looking like their pets! LMAO

Lookout

Jan. 1, 2008, 04:53 PM

Sounds kind of odd to me. But... there is a massage stick sold for human athletes that lots of people use and rave about. It's called "The Stick". Great marketing there. Anyway, it seems to be a good massage option. http://thestick.com/home/index.cfm

Those can also be used to kill annoying real estate brokers. As it was earlier this year (oops, last year): Linda Stein, a wealthy Fifth Avenue New York City broker and former punk rock band manager, was struck and killed with one by her assistant whom she had repeatedly insulted and made racial slurs about. Or was that a 'yoga stick'?

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=87372

horsepowerco

Jan. 1, 2008, 04:58 PM

LMAO I am a sick woman....Lookout I read your post and with a sick twisted chuckle the first thing that came to mind was....
"YOGA THIS B*&^H!" *WHAP*

Lookout

Jan. 1, 2008, 05:02 PM

LMAO I am a sick woman....Lookout I read your post and with a sick twisted chuckle the first thing that came to mind was....
"YOGA THIS B*&^H!" *WHAP*

:lol: :lol: :lol:

In fact, I do believe a witness (the doorman) testified to overhearing just that coming from the apartment/office!

Aide Says She Beat Linda Stein to Death with Yoga Stick

10 November 2007, Saturday

In a stunning end to a sensational whodunit, Linda Stein's assistant confessed she bashed in the Realtor's head with a yoga stick after she blew pot smoke in her face and made a racial crack, the New York Daily News reported, citing the police.

Natavia Lowery calmly cleaned up the Fifth Ave. penthouse after killing the "Realtor to the Stars" in a rage - then filched the dead woman's cell phone and used her ATM card to steal $800, cops said.

Lowery, 26, was arrested Friday and charged with second-degree murder in the baffling Oct. 30 slaying of Stein, a punk-rock pioneer who became wealthy by selling Manhattan's best real estate to Madonna, Sting, Steven Spielberg and other celebs.

Hours earlier, with a videocamera rolling, Lowery confessed to cops, describing how her four months of employment as Stein's go-fer came to a bloody end.

hunter-jumper-rider

Jan. 1, 2008, 05:18 PM

You didnt just say Mullet? UHT UHHH you did not just say Mullet! MY GOD whats this poor horses Foretop and Mane look like? You know what they say about owners looking like their pets! LMAO

YES YES YES, I said MULLET......and it is a bleached PLATINUM MULLET!!!! ROFLMAO.... The Arab's mane looks like $hit...disaster area. They put a sleazy on her to keep her from rubbing her mane and she just rubbed it more. Her mane is pulled within an inch of the mare's life and she rubbed out about 9-12 inches of it right in the middle, so it is kind of a sick HORSEY MULLET!!! Damn....I really need to get pics, I am going to the barn in a bit.

MULLET: Business in the front, party in the back, right???

horsepowerco

Jan. 1, 2008, 05:48 PM

ROFLMAO @ Business in the front party in the back comment! Oh thats great!

Its terrible that the woman was beat to death but DDAAAANG (as Joe Dirt would say) I dont do Yoga...and I dont know what a YOGA stick is but you can bet your butt I'll be finding out. I can see it now. 7 day waiting period to buy a Yoga Stick!

tpup

Jan. 1, 2008, 06:41 PM

...ya' know, I never did get to my Christmas cookie baking this year....perhaps I could borrow the rolling pin when they're done?? :D:lol::lol::D

veebug22

Jan. 1, 2008, 06:50 PM

Not sure about a rolling pin. I had a vet tell me years ago that sometimes (with some owners) he would prescribe tasks for the owner. Nothing that would hurt the horse (or really do anything), just to give them something to do. His favorite was "walk him up that hill 6 times a day". Did nothing really except provide the owner a way to be involved. And got the horse some more human interaction. Maybe the same with the rolling pin. Or maybe the vet has been dippinig into that Special K(etamine).

:lol::lol::lol: You just provided me with the best laugh I've had in months!! That might be sad, but seriously... this is hilarious!!! I would love to talk to that vet.

Anne FS

Jan. 1, 2008, 07:17 PM

Ghazzu, you got it in one!

Sorry to spoil the fun, but it's really odd that no one on here has ever heard of boning a splint!

Deer antler, calf bone - I imagine the vet rightly thought her clients were more likely to have a rolling pin than either of the other two, and it would serve the same purpose.

Ghazzu

Jan. 1, 2008, 07:49 PM

Jeez, Anne, you must be old, too...:D

aiken4horses

Jan. 1, 2008, 08:07 PM

Just joined and this is the first thread I follow -I'm dying of laughter here!

You've got to get a pic!
It's really amazing how ignorant people can be - use common sense!!! :no: All I can think is ouch, ouch, ouch!

Had a vet who said "most owners do 50% of the medicating for 50% of the period indicated", and that most horses get better "IN SPITE OF US"!!!!

J Swan

Jan. 1, 2008, 08:41 PM

I've heard of boning a splint.
Never heard of using a rolling pin.
That just cracks me up. It just sounded crazy!

Woodworkers will use the same technique on some projects if they want to get a certain type of patina; usually trying to achieve a worn or aged look. You can use bone; but some of them use the the chrome leg of a cheap chair. You bone the area; wearing it down and compressing it.

Someone mentioned spoons. I've got a weird aversion to spoons. When I was in the Army I found out some people use them to treat/cure their hemorrhoids. :o:dead::dead::dead:

Ghazzu, you got it in one!

Sorry to spoil the fun, but it's really odd that no one on here has ever heard of boning a splint!

Deer antler, calf bone - I imagine the vet rightly thought her clients were more likely to have a rolling pin than either of the other two, and it would serve the same purpose.

Anne FS

Jan. 1, 2008, 08:42 PM

Jeez, Anne, you must be old, too...:D

You bet!! And lovin' every minute of it. Although I admit I actually heard about it from even older (if that can be possible :D ) timers who had themselves heard of it as something old fashioned.

Lookout

Jan. 1, 2008, 08:47 PM

Someone mentioned spoons. I've got a weird aversion to spoons. When I was in the Army I found out some people use them to treat/cure their hemorrhoids. :o:dead::dead::dead:

Maybe they should have used a rolling pin! :D :lol: :D

meredithbarlow

Jan. 1, 2008, 10:01 PM

maybe owner came up with silly treatment - then blamed vet?

catknsn

Jan. 1, 2008, 10:23 PM

I cannot WAIT to see the horse with the mullet!

And the vet is definitely on crack.

J Swan

Jan. 1, 2008, 11:02 PM

Maybe they should have used a rolling pin! :D :lol: :D

I wish they had - I never used a spoon when I went to the mess hall - just in case some soldier decided to "recycle".

Bleh.

Mullets should be outlawed, by the way. Just sayin'

equinelaw

Jan. 1, 2008, 11:07 PM

But then only outlaws will have mullets. O wait. . . . .:):)

hunter-jumper-rider

Jan. 1, 2008, 11:16 PM

DAMN....I was at the barn with my colt today and "The Mullet" as she will now be called :D was at the barn. Their horse with the mullet just got moved to the stall across from mine. I swear to god if that horse has any conversations with mine about telling mine to get a mullet or giving him style tips, I will kill it!:lol:

So, "The Mullet" comes up to me as I am leading my "I have ants in my pants" colt to the turnout and she stands in my way so she can pet my horse and talk to him in baby talk like a moron. Don't get me wrong, I am sure I talk like a dork to my horse too sometimes (but I don't have a mullet, ROFLMAO) and I said "So have you used the rolling pin today on your mare?" and I swear I snorted a laugh and she told me very seriously that they had and it was working SO well, blah blah blah.

THEN, I could not resist, I said, "Wow, you guys are probably getting so good at rolling that leg, you would kick ass in a cookie baking cook-off." *falls on ground laughing* She just laughed and said "Yeah, no kidding." She did not even GET IT that I was making a joke at their expense......stay tuned folks, tomorrow is a whole new day when I go out there! I am going to make it a personal mission to get a damn picture. Now that their horse is right across from mine, maybe I can "accidentally" snap a photo using my horse as a setup.....so conniving, but it is just too damn funny!

Lookout

Jan. 1, 2008, 11:37 PM

I bet if you smacked the horse in the head with it - it would be broke in the face, too. So you could roll the splint and then alternate by giving the horse a few whacks on the head.

Ohhhhh, NOW I get it! Just wandered over to the dressage forum. I thought you were nuts!

J Swan

Jan. 2, 2008, 06:12 AM

Well, I am, but that's the subject of another thread. ;)

I was watching Blue Collar Comedy on TiVo and they had a sketch in which everyone had a mullet.

Mullets. Even the word conjures up images of halter tops, Camaro's and trailers with furniture in the front yard. And pregnant girls. Lots of pregnant girls. Smoking. With mullets.

Mullet. Say the word slowly. Mullet.

Betcha y'all got the same image in your mind now! har har har.

I used to have a really good vet - he was a troubled man and a very sad case, but a good vet.

I was talking to him about just vet stuff - and he said one of his professors gave him a really good piece of advice.

"Don't just do something, stand there!"

Sounds kind of odd, I guess. But the vet said he often wanted to dive right in and start throwing out differentials, and the professor wanted him to Stop. And. Think.

Maybe the vet Stopped. And. Thinkked. And decided the client, like another poster said, just was more likely to have a rolling pin than a bone.

But the notion of someone using a rolling pin on a splint just cracks me up. Plus - you know that's gotta hurt.

horsepowerco

Jan. 2, 2008, 07:31 AM

*SNORT* now that I have shot coffee from both nostrils...(THANKS GUYS!)

H/J/R we need to rename your barn....Bi-Level Farm..."home of the Mullet Militia"

OMG can you imagine name a stallion that! BAWWHAHHHH! Wont even name the breed it would have to be for fear of offending someone with no sense of Humor.

That reminds me...For those who grew up in the 80's remember when a Mullet was called a Bi-Level? Had to get the perm in the back ya know! EWWWWW egads!

horsepowerco

Jan. 4, 2008, 06:35 AM

OK Wheres the Pics? Im dieing. I even had my VET read this thread...she was rolling in tears, laughing!

J Swan

Jan. 4, 2008, 06:46 AM

That reminds me...For those who grew up in the 80's remember when a Mullet was called a Bi-Level? Had to get the perm in the back ya know! EWWWWW egads!

That's not very funny ;)- I went to a hairdresser and told her what I wanted done with my hair and you know what she did?

MULLET.:dead:

I told her I wanted it layered; blending into the back. Not a frickin' mullet.

I cried all the way home - then went in the bathroom and took a scissors to the back of my head.

I smoked at the time, too. So it really completed the whole "look". At least I had good teeth, though.

Gawd - that was the most horrible haircut I'd ever had.

horsepowerco

Jan. 4, 2008, 07:01 AM

Theres goes my coffee again! Oh Swannie...did you fire the hair dresser?

BTW My vet did ask me if I added a rolling pin to my tool box of therapy goodies. She is such a Smart A$$. lol

J Swan

Jan. 4, 2008, 07:09 AM

Theres goes my coffee again! Oh Swannie...did you fire the hair dresser?

BTW My vet did ask me if I added a rolling pin to my tool box of therapy goodies. She is such a Smart A$$. lol

Well - as long as you don't add a spoon to it. Seeing these soldiers carrying around a spoon in their uniforms gave me the creeps. I kept thinking it was some sort of druggie thing. Not for pushing roids back in. I swear I didn't use a spoon the whole time I was in the Army. (that wasn't very long - it just seemed that way);)

I still think that people should be using springerle pins instead - because if you're going to roll a splint, you might as well leave pretty pictures behind.

I didn't fire the hairdresser - I think the look on my face and bursting into tears conveyed what I wanted to say.

You know - I wish I had a rolling pin that day. I could have broken her in the face and then chain smoked my way home - with the window down and my mullet waving in the breeze.

I can't believe that over 20 years later - I still remember that haircut.

Eventer55

Jan. 4, 2008, 10:00 AM

Excuse me, but I resent the Martha Stewart jab.

Everyone knows that Martha would use a springerle rolling pin. ;):cool:

Y'all are sooooo untrendy when it comes to fashionable veterinary rolling pin treatments!

I bet if you smacked the horse in the head with it - it would be broke in the face, too. So you could roll the splint and then alternate by giving the horse a few whacks on the head.

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: J Swan, you have obviously been following one of the more popular training threads. . .

Carol Ames

Dec. 16, 2011, 11:26 PM

another "old time remedy used to be rubbing it with a corn cob:eek::winkgrin:; according to some hunter people ;)with "strip:winkgrin: horses:cool:" it worked :yes:

Carol Ames

Dec. 16, 2011, 11:38 PM

I wish someone would try a corn cob; it was a VERY BNT :eek::owho recommended it;

Wouldn't it be "wild":winkgrin:if, it did:confused::o work:lol:

Daventry

Dec. 16, 2011, 11:51 PM

Well, I hate to say it, but I have heard several vets talk about rolling a syringe over the popped splint bone several times a day to help it go away quicker. I think it had something to do with breaking up the calcium that forms. I have several friends that have actually used this method on their horses. I dunno, maybe it's a Canadian thing! ;) I've only had one horse pop a splint bone over the years, and my own vet also recommended rolling a syringe over it with pressure to help it heal quicker.

I never did do it, though know people that swear by it. I worried that it would cause too much discomfort and am more the type to let nature take it's course regarding splint bones and let them heal on their own. ;)

Beentheredonethat

Dec. 17, 2011, 02:01 AM

OK, I hate to ask this, but I have to. J Swan. How do you use a spoon to treat hemorrhoids? I know this is going to make it worse, but I'm just not going to be able to sleep until I know.

And, I have to reference that stupid athlete stick. $110 for a stick to roll on your muscles?? Really?? Where can I get the names of these stupid people so I can sell them water or something for a lot of money?

karlymacrae

Dec. 17, 2011, 05:21 AM

This thread (although ancient) absolutely killed me. So.. how did it turn out??

Tom Stovall

Dec. 17, 2011, 07:31 AM

Ghazzu in gray

That's the thing though--it's not "nouveau"--it's quite archaic.
This is the first time I've heard of using a rolling pin, but my reference to using a spoon was from hearing this as a child.
I believe a piece of bone was also sometimes recommended for rubbing (somewhat like the old process of "boning" waxed calfskin riding boots with a stag's shin bone).

Doc, I remember blistering splints with croton oil and a toothpick, but boning was before my time. :)

malinda

Dec. 17, 2011, 09:48 AM

Many years ago I was told to roll a coke bottle on an old, cold splint for a week or two. Guess what? It worked! The splint was reduced by about 75% (it was pretty large to begin with).

Herbie19

Dec. 17, 2011, 09:59 AM

True, Ghazzu....or one could hop on one foot, pat their head and rub their tummy, right?

But only if you sang Yankee Doodle Dandy at the same time, otherwise, no way that would work! :)

Call me crazy, but I'd ice, surpass, boot and turnout.

Katy Watts

Dec. 17, 2011, 10:40 AM

:lol: Now I've heard everything! I would love to follow that vet around, and see what other gems she has. :lol:

Seriously. This would make a book every bit as interesting and popular as the James Herriot series. A blend of All Creatures Great and Small, and Riply's Believe it or not.

I'd buy it.