Horse Band aids????????

Something like that would likely be rubbed or chewed off in no time, and might take the hair off with it. You can protect a facial wound from insects and the elements by having your horse wear a good quality fly mask with moleskin cut and secured to the inside of the mask to pad over the wound. The best one I've found is the Cashel Crusader long nose fly mask (with or without ears).

A stalled horse can wear a neck cradle to prevent him from chewing on bandages, and the cradle could also be used to protect a neck wound, but obviously you'd only want to put the horse through wearing this when it's absolutely necessary.

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Even if your horse is kept stalled, any wrapped bandage, no matter how well wrapped it is, is going to become loosened after 24 to 36 hours, so bandages have to be changed at least every day for that reason, and they also need changing to allow for checking for infection or swelling, or to check suture lines, etc. Many wounds can't be sutured if heavy contamination has occurred or elapsed time before treatment is rendered has overly increased the risks from major bacterial colonization in the wound bed.

Most wounds can safely remain open and be flushed with sterile isotonic saline and dressed with a product like Vetericyn periodically, and bandages won't be needed.

Most limb wounds can be dressed and wrapped, but it is difficult to wrap over joints, and in order to avoid uneven areas of constriction on the limb, cotton sheeting or quilted padding is necessary to use under Vetrap, Kling bandage or Elastikon tape which secures your gauze dressing in place over the wound and also allows you to apply pressure with the outer layer over a badly bleeding wound or swollen leg. As a rule, the opposite limb is also wrapped to avoid overloading of that limb.

Not to my knowledge, no. But they do make horse disinfectant sprays! If you look online you're sure to find some. But, most of the time, if your horse has a little scrape on his nose, all you really need to do is keep an eye on it and wait for it to heal. In the wild, horses don't have band aids OR disinfectant sprays, and they typically do just fine. Besides, the band aid would come off in the pasture anyways!

Horses get cuts and scrapes, they're like children. If they can get in trouble they will. But unless it's bleeding very badly or looks infected there really is no need to worry. They'll heal on their own. Disinfectant sprays can help protect from infection though. Usually I'll put SWAT on my horses scrapes and cuts because the flies HATE it and it keeps them from messing with the injury. But over all I wouldn't worry about it.

No they do not. Cuts are usually on covered if they are severely infected, stitched or in the lower limbs to prevent infection when lying down in the stable. Faces and necks usually heal very quickly with little problem.

And consider what it feels like peeling one off our relatively hairless legs, and then imagine it coming off a horse's face! He would be within his rights to cause merry hell!

Typically, if a horse is bleeding bad enough that constant pressure is necessary, stitches and a vet call are your best friend.

Otherwise, leave it open to allow healing. Apply ointment as necessary.