Registered: Dec 2008
Location: Cane Creek,LaFayette Ga
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any one have any info on Bag balm for drying up a nursing female. My local co-op doesnt carry it,but said she'd order it if she had the product name and company info

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Registered: Mar 2009
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It seems like the old vet I worked for used witch hazel. It was strong smelling whatever. Bag balm is good stuff for chapped skin and callouses on your feet. Don't think it would be a very good astringent for shrinking skin though.

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Registered: Mar 2008
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Old timers used spirits of camphor to dry up lactating females, but I don't think You can find it anymore . A lot of people use this method. You must seperate the pups from the mother and never let them nurse her again or she will start making milk again. Give her about a teaspoon of food a day for 3 days. Her body will think she is starving to death and absorb all the milk in her system. Do not rub her tits or squeeze them to check for milk as it will cause her to start making milk again.

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Old timers used spirits of camphor to dry up lactating females, but I don't think You can find it anymore . A lot of people use this method. You must seperate the pups from the mother and never let them nurse her again or she will start making milk again. Give her about a teaspoon of food a day for 3 days. Her body will think she is starving to death and absorb all the milk in her system. Do not rub her tits or squeeze them to check for milk as it will cause her to start making milk again.

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Originally posted by bush whacker
Old timers used spirits of camphor to dry up lactating females, but I don't think You can find it anymore . A lot of people use this method. You must seperate the pups from the mother and never let them nurse her again or she will start making milk again. Give her about a teaspoon of food a day for 3 days. Her body will think she is starving to death and absorb all the milk in her system. Do not rub her tits or squeeze them to check for milk as it will cause her to start making milk again.

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Registered: Jan 2009
Location: Central Illinois
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Almost every pharmacy carries a product called Camphonique. It comes in a little green bottle. It will dry up a female quick. It is camphor oil.

I might add that I use bag balm and keep a can of it around for variuos problems like hot spots and cuts. But, not to dry up females.

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Camphor oil twice daily and takes the pups away first two days reduce feed and water and u will never know shes had pups

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Bag Balm all I use.

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I use the Bag Balm and do allmost the same thing you do except I do not feed nor watter her for the first 2 days and KEEK HER TEETS COVERED WITH THE BALM sometimes 3 or 4 times a day, her system will use her milk for hydration. has worked for me for quite some time. and by the way a old time vet years ago put me onto this method.

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Registered: Apr 2011
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When never used bag balm on any of our dogs, But we dairy farm and I'm sure that bag balm would be good for a chapped udder.

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Dont do anything, just cut her feed way down and massage in vegetable oil, she dry right up.

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My old grandad was a horseman and dogman and every rash, cut. or scrape got a glob of bagbalm. I still use it on my animals, kids, and myself heck i think the stuff mght cure cancer.

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I think Tractor Supply has it. Hold water for 24 hours unless it is hot. Then just give her no more than you have to. That is all it has ever taken for mine.

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Or you can do nothing at all. Take the pups off and she will dry up and look like a lady that has had pups. Get used to it is what I reckon, they are pretty too.

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