Cayenne Pepper*

[MH.indy]

Okay, so I board at a old Saddle Seat barn, it's no longer showing so they board. They have a bunch of odd stuff. I've never heard of using before. They have Cayenne pepper laying around, i'm wandering what it's used for if it is? Not that i wanna use it. :lol: I don't wanna use half the stuff they have out there. woooo.

[GallopingGrape]

wood chewers?

[bugsynskeeter]

At a saddleseat barn, my first guess would be that they used it to pepper their tails. Or is just ginger used?

[greysandbays]

Cayenne Pepper would be going a bit overboard for tails -- they'd be peeling horses off the ceiling!!!!!!! (Not that even ginger is any picnic.)

Wood chewing deterrent would be my guess.

I don't remember where, but I recently saw a website listing Cayenne Pepper by the 50# container. I'm not sure how anybody lives long enough to use 50# of Cayenne Pepper for anything!

[MelantheLLC]

I don't remember where, but I recently saw a website listing Cayenne Pepper by the 50# container. I'm not sure how anybody lives long enough to use 50# of Cayenne Pepper for anything!


Cajun restaurant?

[Seven-up]

Cajun restaurant?

:lol: I used to have a cribber, and we tried painting cayenne pepper on her stall door. Well, this is Louisiana, so like any true cajun girl, she thought she had her own personal cajun restaurant! LOVED IT! Thought she was in heaven; couldn't imagine what she had done to deserve this tasty treat.

FWIW, she also loved the taste of those chew stop sprays that taste like a combination of poison, burning plastic, and random chemicals. So it's not like she really had a discriminating palate.:lol:

[abbydp]

could they put it in their legs, feet, whatever they want lifted higher? (just a guess or question - I have no idea)

[Jumphigh83]

Track uses them for bandage chewing and cribbing. I never had any luck with it... and you touch it ...forget you touched it....then rub your eyes and it is a RELIGIOUS experience! :eek::eek::eek:

[NEWT]

You mix a hearty amount of cayanne with dishwashing soap... such as clear Ivory liquid. Then you paint it on the wood to stop the chewers. Believe me, it works great. We have a mule that's part beaver. This was the only thing that worked. ChewStop and McNasty tasted good to him.

[Mia412]

You mix a hearty amount of cayanne with dishwashing soap... such as clear Ivory liquid. Then you paint it on the wood to stop the chewers. Believe me, it works great. We have a mule that's part beaver. This was the only thing that worked. ChewStop and McNasty tasted good to him.

We always mixed it with the cheapest lemon dishwashing liquid we could find. It smells awful but has always worked!

[Dirty Little Secret]

we use it for wood chewing. And it leaves the barn smelling like a restaurant. My neighbors at the horseshows never seemed to appreciate it very much... (shrugs)

[bort84]

could they put it in their legs, feet, whatever they want lifted higher? (just a guess or question - I have no idea)

Seems unlikely. My grandmother is a saddle seat trainer, and I've worked for other trainers and been in many saddle seat barns. I've never seen cayenne pepper used as a training "aid" of any sort. There are some pretty "creative" trainers out there though, so who knows...

I'd have to agree with everyone else that it's most likely a chewing remedy. I personally put it on everything, so maybe they just like spicy food at the barn, haha.

[caffeinated]

Ditto on the wood chewing. We have a couple at our barn (a mostly eventing crowd, with a few dressagers and western riders too) whose stalls get the hot pepper treatment :)

[midkniggit]

At the vet clinic, we mixed it with vaseline and smeared it on bandages to prevent chewing. My guess whould be something similar.