Bad Day at Block Rock - errrr - Make it Bad Year.

[sseelhoff]

Jim,
Dad taught me to mix melted lard (I use cresco) with turpentine. Equal parts of both. I brush it on open dog wounds with a 1 inch wide paint brush. The lard will not solidify for months mixed with turpentine. I brushed it on, twice a day, until they healed up. I never had problems with maggots using this home remedy.

Last fall, when Booger got his neck ripped open, a vet friend told me to not use the lard and turpentine mix, but instead use peroxide twice a day and rinse out the open wounds. Which I did. He got maggots in the open wound. I picked out two to three maggots twice a day then for a few days.

Bottom line, maggots will live in the wound with the peroxide rinse, but I never had a problem with maggots using the lard and turpentine mix.

I also give penicillin shots for a week.

Dad was an Animal Husbandry student at Texas A&M. He was in class of 1944. But he enlisted right after Peal Harbor and never went back to A&M to be a veterinarian. He was raised on the farm in the Texas Panhandle, so I guess home schooling won out in the home remedy I use over store bought medicine!

I hope your "little" doggie is doing better!
hugs, Brandi

My wife uses bacon grease on the horses when they have an open would. She also swears by that as a means to speed healing without scars.

 

[crash325]

Jimbrown Did Tombstone get their water system fixed after it burned in Forrest fire Seemed there was a problem with a wheel on the wheelbarrow used to mix cement . Government had policy on no wheels in the area?

Maybe crash325 should run for Mayor in this commune he is living.
Jim I have a absentee ballot if you need it.
ken

Quote Originally Posted by Jimbrown View Post
I just hate shared wells and glad I do not have to do so. I think I would spend the dollars to isolate all the users and turn off the ones that don't pay their share. Maybe too hard to do and to confrontational. As an alternative I would but in my own pressure tank and cut off the others a few hours a day just to get their attention

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High on my list of things to do is drill my own well. Going to check into it after the first of the year. If that works out, to He!! with the others. I do own 25% & other share holders only own 10%, But it does not count for much.

Ken,
This is not a community, not really part of Tucson, but does have a Tucson Address. Part of the county, but they don't claim it either. An area about a mile wide & 10 miles long.
More later,
Jim

 

[crash325]

My wife uses bacon grease on the horses when they have an open would. She also swears by that as a means to speed healing without scars.

May be Great on a horse but the dogs would never quit licking.

 

[aczlan]

My wife uses bacon grease on the horses when they have an open would. She also swears by that as a means to speed healing without scars.

If you can keep them from licking it, Ichthammol drawing salve does a great job of pulling junk out of the wound and helping it heal.
Do NOT use it where a dog or cat can lick it. It is not ingestion friendly.

Aaron Z

 

[bindian]

Jim,
Nothing on Google on Smear 64. Lots of neat "wonder" cures from the 60s are gone. I remember Mom and Dad putting Jim Wade on my feet when I was "little". Good stuff,but burned, burned, burned.
hugs, Brandi

Hi Lady,
Always good to hear from you. Thanks for the tip. May try it some time. He is doing pretty well. Not sore any more & I've been putting "Blue Kote" on him. It is doing a pretty good job. He may have had a fly blow, that I scratched out, but no maggots. He had a big puss sack, it's mostly gone now.
Seems to me "Smear 64" was a tar & turpentine mix +??. Sure worked good in the old days.
At well over 100#s ( Not Fat Either) he still thinks he is a lap dog. :laughing: Had to cut off the rope harness that I put on him, his neck got too big for it.
Think he has forgotten the bad days in jail. Now the world is his oyster. Just a big ole clown puppy at heart.
The dogs are spoiled rotten & when I find whoever did that they are in big trouble.

More later. thanks again
Jim

 

[bindian]

My wife uses bacon grease on the horses when they have an open would. She also swears by that as a means to speed healing without scars.

That would work the same as lard. I don't remember Booger having scars either.

Awesome thing is you would think the turpentine would burn on contact, but it does not. But Booger and his older sibling, Otis, didn't want any medicine, but trusted me in "doctoring" them and never bit me or snapped at me.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

May be Great on a horse but the dogs would never quit licking.

Just another reason to mix half and half with turpentine. Maybe that was the original thought in using it.
hugs, Brandi

 

[dragoneggs]

Someone wanted to know if I was a good person or not. My dogs get treats almost every day, I feed birds, even boil sugar water for the hummers, make sure birds & rabbits have water. For the last almost 10 years Harvey & I maintained the community well. We spent between $250 & $300 & never charged anyone for the parts or 1 dime for labor. I, with the help of Harvey & dart, hauled in over 50 yards of gravel to rebuild the roads around here. No one helped or even offered to ,help pay for the cost incurred. Run a tractor / loader for 10 to 20 hours & see what that alone costs. Plus 2 trucks. May & June of this year I spent $ over $150 to keep the well up & running, plus many hours of labor. Not been paid by anyone yet, even though I split it 4 ways & included myself as 1 of the 4. Separately I filled in the easement (100% on my property & 1/2 should be on other property.) After a rain there was a lake over 2 feet deep. Dug a trench so that it could also drain. Hauled off & buried 3 huge loads of trash from the criminals property Nuff for now. Not really complaining, just the facts.

Crash, I think it was me that asked if you were a good person in response to your post to someone else when you said, "how do you know that I am a good person?" after they called you a 'good' person.

 

[crash325]

another good old fashion liniment. We always had a bottle or 2 around.

Colza oil also has medicinal purposes and was used to make Gombault’s Caustic Balsam, a liniment “for man and beast” that was once popularly used on horses and humans.

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Now on too absorbine jr.

 

[AchingBack]

I finally realized you are having a bad day at block rock. Now everything is totally clear. I had a mental block. May 2015 be the year of reversal of fortunes for you Crash. May all your good dreams come true and your nightmares be buried by a NH TC-45