Extremely scabby legs

[Sharonr]

My wee mare is suffering from huge big scabs on all her legs!

She had it last year when I first got her and ended up with a huge odema under her stomach. Called vet out who advised that it was simply a reaction to the flies and to hibiscrub every day to get rid.

However, the flies are not really bad yet and her legs are in a terrible mess. I have been giving her regular hibi washes on her legs but to no avail !!!

I fly spray her every morning and at teatime but the scabs are numerous and quite big however, only seem to be from the knee down.

Does anyone have any recommendations as to what I can use?

 

[tania01]

I asked the exact same question to someone very well known on this forum who advised me to apply camrosa.

I have to say it is fantastic and he is healing very well.

 

[Bert&Maud]

It might be ticks. My horses get them really badly, below the knee they are covered in weepy scabs, but the ticks do not seem to attach themselves, but occasionally they get them on their bodies when the ticks are usually still attached and the area around it swells up. I've never found anything that stops them getting bitten, but as the vet says, I just give them a good clean up (picking all the scabs off - ugh!) with Hibiscrub every few days. The ticks on their bodies are removed with tweezers after soaking with spirit (meths or surgical) to stun them so they loosen their grip.

 

[diggerbez]

my friends horse has legs that sound like this and he's just been diagnosed as being photosensitive so might be this? don't know what the treatment/ solution is tho so rather unhelpful

 

[Slinkyunicorn]

Just replied on your post in vets

 

[kellyeaton]

are you sure its not sun burn that has gone scabby!

 

[Tnavas]

Try washing her legs with Nizeral - you can buy it from the chemist. Dilute with warm water and lather up well with a face cloth. Leave to dry.