How to Treat a Leg Wound on Your Horse When No Vet Is Available

 realize this is not always possible or even what a lot of people want. As an alternative, steroid creams work some of the time, but the best way to deal with proud flesh is to prevent it before it happens.

• The best way to prevent proud flesh is by keeping the wound clean and moist. Clean out the dirt as soon as the injury happens and disinfect it right away
• The wound healing and lack of proud flesh may be due to coconut oils vitamin E. This is still an area of research and final results are not available.
• When healing begins, use coconut oil each day to moisturize the damaged skin before applying the best bandage that you have

•  available. (I keep my coconut oil in a spray bottle so that I can apply it from a few inches away. If the morning is so cool that it
•  becomes thick, it will not come out and it has to be warmed up. The melting point is 24°C (about 76°F), so all you have to do is hold the bottle in a warm place like your underarm for a few minutes.)

Some horses are a lot more prone to this problem and will develop proud flesh no matter how well their wounds are taken care of. The