Fly rugs and sarcoids

[Cinderellarockafella]

Hi

What long term after care do people use on their horse with sarcoids? My horse is having her's removed using Liverpool cream. I wondered if people then keep their horses covered throughout fly season each year to keep the flies at bay or do you leave the horse bare?

Thanks

 

[becca1305]

On advice of vet mine wears a fly sheet. They always wear flysheets on still days in summer anyway but since the sarcoids which were on the inside of her legs I have gone further and bought her one of those snuggy hood sweet-itch fly rugs which have an udder cover which also keeps her upper thighs protected. If on a nice breezy day I would turn out without but slather sarcoid area with protective cream/ gel.

 

[Cinderellarockafella]

becca1305 thanks for the response, I have a couple of questions:
Have your horses sarcoids been removed and you use the rugs and repellant as a precaution?
Do you find a fly rug as effective as a sweet itch rug?
Does your horse get hot in the snuggy stuff?

 

[whizzer]

Mine had sarcoids on sheath,belly & hindlegs. Completely cleared by several treatments of Liverpool cream about 10yrs ago. The only time I tried a fly rug was when they were really bad just before I commenced treatment,the rug slipped & cut into the sarcoids then he bled all over the rug! Abandoned it after 1 day of use,I never bothered with anything after that as I don't particularly like using fly rugs anyway.