Best stuff to keep the mud off

[jenbleep]

Evening all

What would you suggest is the best potion or spray to put on Charisma to keep the mud at bay?

Is is that just a myth?!

Thanks xx

 

[sazzle44]

I don't know what to suggest you put on to keep it at bay but I find the best thing for mud fever is 'Aroma Heel'. Seems to work quite well. It keeps the mud off while clearing up the scabs underneath xx

 

[Liesel]

Another vote for Aroma Heel. Luckily not needed it at all this year but still have a pot handy just in case.

 

[Lollii]

Baby Oil! I buy Morrisons own brand (cheap) the check out ladies there think I have several hundred babies at home ...I buy loads of it for my mud fever prone horse .... fingers crossed baby oil and zinc & castor oil cream has worked

 

[bitlessbill]

Pig oil, mud slides off

 

[martlin]

Seven Day Mud Away - does what it says on the tin (bottle, to be precise )

 

[trendybraincell]

Pig Oil all the way!!!!

I use it on its own but it can be mixed with sulphur if mud fever or mites are a problem

 

[Lotty]

I use Pig Oil too. When I bring her in on a night she is usually covered in mud, I normally brush her and because I put pig oil on the night before it just slides off.

 

[vhf]

Lots of linseed in the diet - seems to make the mud brush off easier, honest! Dustbuster rug as under rug. Baby oil rubbed lightly where the rug doesn't go. Power blast with hose when mud still wet when desperate and all else fails. Or just ride out looking like horse is wearing mud dreadlocks...

 

[freespirits]

For the last few years I have used a 50/50 mix of baby oil and vinegar. The oil means the mud only sticks lightly to the surface of the legs and comes off really easily, and the parasites that cause mud fever hate the acidity of the vinegar. Cheap as chips but very effective and unless the mud and wet really bad only needs applying every other day

 

[ISHmad]

Parasites do not cause mud fever, it is a bacteria which lives in the soil and enters the skin when compromised whether by wet, mud, cuts, skin infections etc.

We use pig oil and sulphur with great results.

 

[freespirits]

Parasites do not cause mud fever, it is a bacteria which lives in the soil and enters the skin when compromised whether by wet, mud, cuts, skin infections etc.

Thanks for the correction...I was having a 'blank' moment, and for the life of me, even tho' I knew it wasn't parasites couldn't think of the correct alternative...

 

[ISHmad]

Hey no worries Freespirits, I have lots of those!

 

[scruffy's mum]

regarding 7 day mud away!its a brilliant product(i used it last year),however i bought a new bottle and used it 2/3 times recently and last week my horse started losing hair on the clipped areas that had been sprayed!he has a very bald patch about the size of my hand at the top of his off h leg(not a hair left),several patches on his face/behind ears and hair is beginning to go on his near side hind!....make sure you do a patch test and leave it for 36 hours!

 

[nadinek82]

Sudocrem!!

 

[Mrs B]

Seven Day Mud Away - does what it says on the tin (bottle, to be precise )

Another vote for this ^^^^^^!

I have a grey *cough* mudlark who loathes being groomed. Saves a lot of time and sanity all round.

 

[floradora09]

Pig oil! I found that although sudocrem probably provided a better barrier initially, the mud stuck to it and it didn't stay on that well, whereas pig oil meant that mud literally slid off!