An idiot's guide to mud fever

[horsesatemymoney]

Please! Never experienced it before, but have cream off the vet, so using that, but still turning out as horse gets swollen legs and dodgy stifle if in, so when I turn out I use pig oil and vaseline.

It doesn't seem to be going-is it essential that horse stays in until it's completely gone, or would hosing the legs each day help? (been told that can open the pores and make it worse). There's no swelling or lameness, just scabs, and it's not on the heels, it's down the back of the feathers from just below the knee to above the fetlock.

Thanks!

 

[Purple18]

Hi
This is what i do with my horse.

Hibsrub once get them really cleantrim away any haior so you can really clean well and dry legs really well try to find a rough towel to really get them dry I would then apply the cream the vet has given you in a thin layer over the area. I wouldn't suggest turning out the best is to keep his/her legs are dry as possible. if you have somewhere dry to turn out such a school they i think you should be okay.

are the scabs yellow ? if so i would try to get them off the cream may help to take them off but without them being removed the problem will remain once they come off and it scabs over are long as they aren't yellow again i would then let them be.

Good luck

 

[Auslander]

Please! Never experienced it before, but have cream off the vet, so using that, but still turning out as horse gets swollen legs and dodgy stifle if in, so when I turn out I use pig oil and vaseline.

It doesn't seem to be going-is it essential that horse stays in until it's completely gone, or would hosing the legs each day help? (been told that can open the pores and make it worse). There's no swelling or lameness, just scabs, and it's not on the heels, it's down the back of the feathers from just below the knee to above the fetlock.

Thanks!

Has the vet seen it? Location sounds like it might be mites, rather than mudfever. That would explain why the cream isn't working.

 

[horsesatemymoney]

Hi
This is what i do with my horse.

Hibsrub once get them really cleantrim away any haior so you can really clean well and dry legs really well try to find a rough towel to really get them dry I would then apply the cream the vet has given you in a thin layer over the area. I wouldn't suggest turning out the best is to keep his/her legs are dry as possible. if you have somewhere dry to turn out such a school they i think you should be okay.

are the scabs yellow ? if so i would try to get them off the cream may help to take them off but without them being removed the problem will remain once they come off and it scabs over are long as they aren't yellow again i would then let them be.

Good luck

Thanks No they're like a crusty black (ew!),def not yellow, they were only noticable because I was grooming, but there's no broken skin or anything like taht?

 

[horsesatemymoney]

Has the vet seen it? Location sounds like it might be mites, rather than mudfever. That would explain why the cream isn't working.

No-my old horse got mites sometimes, only on straw though- horse is on a small shavings bed when in? I'm a bit of a veterinary numpty. There's no broken skin, but there are scabs- dark, not yellow, and not around the heels or anything, just down the back of the legs. I've not noticed any itching (old horse used to itch on anything that stayed still!) I've got some maliseb, I think, so might try that just in case?

 

[Purple18]

Thanks No they're like a crusty black (ew!),def not yellow, they were only noticable because I was grooming, but there's no broken skin or anything like taht?

erm strange doesn't sounds much like mud fever it's tricky to know without actually seeing it. is the black sticky or dry to the touch ? sounds fairly high up to be mud fever too. did the vet say it was mud fever ?

 

[shergar]

I have read up on this trying to help a friends horse lots of info on this site It seems that using hibi scrub should not be used on broken skin it slows down healing and made my friends horse a whole lot worse I looked on web site for Lincoln University that is interesting they did a 5 year study and you can now buy Lincoln muddy buddy powder and ointment My friend is going to give it a try as far as I can tell you it is water proof and you do not have to remove scabs It sounds like may be good for your horse so you can give him turn out Take a look see what you think I hope he gets better soon

 

[horsesatemymoney]

erm strange doesn't sounds much like mud fever it's tricky to know without actually seeing it. is the black sticky or dry to the touch ? sounds fairly high up to be mud fever too. did the vet say it was mud fever ?

No, it's dry and flakey- so you can pick the scabs off easily, they awlmost crumble under your hands, and under the skin you can feel bumps, like scabs I guess, but under the fur. I didn't get the vet out, just called for advice and picked the cream up- they'd been out a few days earlier for something else! Helathy pony!

 

[horsesatemymoney]

I have read up on this trying to help a friends horse lots of info on this site It seems that using hibi scrub should not be used on broken skin it slows down healing and made my friends horse a whole lot worse I looked on web site for Lincoln University that is interesting they did a 5 year study and you can now buy Lincoln muddy buddy powder and ointment My friend is going to give it a try as far as I can tell you it is water proof and you do not have to remove scabs It sounds like may be good for your horse so you can give him turn out Take a look see what you think I hope he gets better soon

Thanks very much for this, there's no broken skin in this case, but I will certainly try that one-thank you

 

[Purple18]

Is the cream working if not you might need the vet to have alook sounds like a mud fever cracked skin type thing it could be some sort of reaction to any really chnaged feed or anything ? x

 

[JenHunt]

Ron gets mudfever down his feathers - my vet said to do the following....
1) trim feathers (not clipping them!)
2) hibiscrub legs, picking off as many scabs as possible
3) dry with a clean towel
4) once legs are completely dry apply the cream provided
5) repeat daily.

we can't really leave in either except overnight, so we put the cream on in the evenings, and we put pig oil and sulphur on during the day.

as a preventative measure we just use the pig oil and sulphur

 

[maccachic]

Check out aroma heel I got a sample pot sent over and it was really magic stuff, the horse I had on trial had aweful Mf and it cleared it up quickly.

At the same time do an analysis of your feed since I have been feeding a balanced diet (for you horse, situation, feed etc) no MF for must be about 10 years now and I have owned a range of horses all living out year round.