I have some vetrycin on hand that i reciecved for free as i found it in a truck my dad bought.. i was wondering what people thought about it.. is it something you use on your horses? YEs no? why?
I love the stuff. Yes it's expensive but when my horse had a cut leg and it was oozing and puss was draining and running down his leg, after a couple days I broke down and bought it and gave it a try. Stopped the pussing and oozing overnight. My dog just cut his pad on his foot, and after a day was back to walking on it and it's healing wonderfully. Now...it says not for human use, but I have psoriasis on my feet and it gets red and itchy and peeling and painful so I thought...what the heck? I haven't been this comfortable in years despite all the prescription treatments I've tried.
Now, I know a lot of people think it's worthless, but think it's great. I need it in purse size.
I love, love, love Vetricyn. It cleans and prevents infection in the wound but doesn't dry it out. I think that's the key to how it works so well.
Always great to have on hand for any animal. I've used it for cuts on horses, an ear infection on a dog, and to get an abcess cleaned after it'd been drained.
I love it! Cleans up cuts and scrapes beautifully. Jesse had rain rot in his forelock last summer. His hair stopped falling out overnight and all of it has grown back now without any hint of it being gone.
Had an old mare tear the skin off her entire knee. Vetrycin cleaned it up, kept it from pussing up too much, and kept infection away. Of course we bandaged as well, but she went on to have a full recovery
I love vetricyn. It is pricey but it works. I had this cut on my finger that was hurting for two days I sprayed it on my finger that morning and by the afternoon I didn't even feel it. I do know that if you let it sit out in the heat that it turns into nothing but water. I use the eye version on my mare and my husband asked me to spray it in his eye because he thought it my burn her eyes and he said it didn't burn his eye at all. A lady I talked to said her and her mom use it when they get sinus infection ;-) I haven't gotten that brave lol
I call it glorified water but now that's "here", I won't be without the stuff.
I've never seen anything like it to calm/clean/heal itchy/hurting stuff on the horses.
Then there's the dog that I thought was going to end up at the vet from digging her ear so bad it was seeping.
I cleaned down in her ear for three days with a twisted up paper towel soaked in Vetericyn (it was Friday, you know nothing good always happens on weekends).
By Monday, the ear healed and all the redness was gone:shock: I keep checking her ear, still thinking she may have to see the vet but, so far everything's normal and she quit digging at it in the first 24 hours of using the Vetericyn.
I have used Vetericyn on our horses, dogs and cats - all with great success. However, you mention that you found your's in a truck that your father purchased - that would concern me as the storage for this product is best done at room temp, away from extreme temperatures and out of direct sunlight. Depending on how long it was kept in the vehicle, it's active ingredients may have degraded beyond usefulness.
I was just gonna say that, Macpack. I mistakenly left some in the unheated tack room in our barn. Can't get it too cold, either. The bottle gives temp. variations. I won't make that mistake again. :-( $$$
Love the stuff! The kind for eyes is wonderful, too. Journey used to get a lot of eye irritations. Vetricyn pretty much cured that.
My gelding had to have a hole drilled in the top of his face from a impacted tooth, the hole never closed and would kind of seep so I took him to the vet and the vet said it doesn't bother him, when winter comes we could close it or just leave it. I was still concerned so he put him on this antibiotic that cost $69 it sort of went away the seeping but not quite. So one day I had the vetricyn and I asked my husband lets just spray it in the hole clean it up and who knows, so we did and it was almost a week before we saw anymore seepage and it was barely any really so we did it again, and one more time since and the hole looks like it is so much smaller and it hardly ever seeps. I gave some to a friend whose dog was scuffed up, he liked it too. It is pricey but with animals you run into the problem of how hard it is to keep a wound clean that is just makes sense to spend your money on something that works really fast then having to keep buying cheaper remedies that take longer.
If you found it in a truck that you don't know how long it's been there, it may have been frozen or in direct sunlight, it's contents are useless and neutralized. Don't depend on it working as you don't know how it was stored.
Have used both the Gel spray and the other spray (looks like water) love them both! You just have to remember to not get the gel in the eyes.
Hate the price, love what they do!
well i have used it since it was in the truck on an absese that my horse had on his hoof because it was peeling off the hoof in the back and ow everything is better so i think its still okay.. i have it in my horse trailer now.. i might want to take it out because recently the weather has been over 100 degrees
Do not store it in the trailer - it isn't about the temperature being 100, it is that it is meant to be stored at a steady, moderate temperature. Storing it outside, in the trailer, etc exposes it to temperature fluctuations.
Oh no, I wasn't aware of the instability with temperature extremes. My bottle is stored in my trailer so it will have to be replaced. The problem is that when I need it will be inconvenient to have do go home from the barn to get it.
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