I will be trimming a Shire mare today, the owner was nice enough to send me an email this morning which read ......... If you are allergic to poison Ivy you may want to be careful, Star may have the oil on her feathers since there is poison ivy in her pasture. ray
From what I was told...... horse was bathed twice with some super duper anti poison ivy shampoo, I wrapped the feathers and washed hands and arms with dishwashing detergent when I finished, I m not itchin, though I rarely get poison ivy, tomorrow will tell I thought it was very thoughtful of this person to inform me, while it was the proper thing to do, many folks don t say a word, I like being part of the decision process especially since I m the one who might unknowingly pay the price! I thank her for taking the time. Ray
I have gotten poison ivy on my forearms several times from working on horses that have been in it. several years back I got it and didn't realize it. I had been whipping the sweat off of my face with my arms all day and got poison ivy on one of my eyelids. That was a bit unpleasant.
not so far! course if i was ,i might have a difficult time proving it was caused by the Shires feathers since i was cutting firewood last eve. in a field where there has been PI in the past. thanks for checking ray
got it several times from the same group of horses in the same barn. They have a lot of fescue and their legs get sticky from walking through that tall fescue when it seeds out. I guess it helps the poison ivy stick to me. It always would pop up after going to this same barn. I don't do any work there any more and haven't had a problem with it. They had lots of grass bordered by lots of scrub brush like black berry bushes, poison oak, sumac, privet, etc. Maybe it was the combination of vegetation.
It has never bothered me except when I would bring it home on my clothes and it would get to the wife doing laundry. Then it was a problem for me.
Tom, this morn,early I was pulling some oak trees to cut an split into firewood. Having had my usual 5 or 6 cups of coffee earlier ,nature being what it is, required me to want to relieve my self several times while out in the woods, I did notice some poison ivy around, not knowing if I had touched any, because of this thread, I returned to the house, washed my hands and forearms with the available dish washing detergent, and proceeded to go into the bathroom and "take my burgeoning leak",washed my hands again and back to work. Thought a lot and chuckled of the posts on horseshoes.com about how farriers are the few folks who should wash their hand before going to the bathroom and of your post quoted above. Think of the agony of picking up PI oil from a horse,or anywhere, and having spread it by taking a leak. So far I ve no poison ivy itch, but i m do have an itch for some of those cranberry pecan cookies mentioned in another thread, but if i remember, a vets script is required ! ray
