Has anyone else's horse got root rot?

[ycbm]

I took my eye off the ball and the recent wet weather after dry has "rotted" for want of a better word, Ludo's perioples and the skin on his heels. I'm cross with myself I didn't spot earlier, but one night of sudocrem seems to have made a really big difference drying it up.

Anyone else got this going on (and what do you use on it? ) or am I the only bad mother this week? The black skinned guys are OK, it's only him.
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[paddy555]

no problem. White legs onto white feet (and pink skin) and chestnut legs onto darker feet and nothing.
Did you keep Ludo's feet hydrated in the dry weather. I hosed the feet of our lot morning and night in the dry spell. Don't know if that made a difference.
I also get wet grass of the feet (grooves) daily which does seem to produce rotting (gungyness) in frogs.

 

[ycbm]

I've never done anything to his feet except rasp them a bit now and then, but this is the first year this has happened. I remember a thread with a picture of it on here several years back but I don't think anyone knew what it was. It looks fungal, maybe, but who knows. It's very pitted at the back of his heels just above the frog before the hair line.

 

[paddy555]

I can picture what you mean and I have seen pics of it before. I am not sure it is "anything" specific as such possibly more just the hoof/foot reaction to something. Could be the foot got very dry in that hot spell and the skin was dry and brittle and then with the wet there was little barrier and bugs took hold.
(only a suggestion)
another thing I have found to be a problem is wet sugary grass in summer when there is heat and grass. It seems to help with fungal infections in some.

Whatever, I would bring him in for a period of time, wash it in salt water, dry and apply a mix of desitin and canestan or desitin with copper sulphate powder mixed in.
I have tried both of those and they work well.

Alternatively if you don't have 40% zinc oxide then sudo with cannestan or copper sulphate. I'm sure both of those will solve the problem

if we have another dry spell this month as promised and you don't want to hose each day you could sudo the area each day to try and keep it supple and see if that makes a difference.

 

[HollyWoozle]

Our appy’s heels occasionally get a bit sore (our ground goes from wet to dry very fast) and I like Red Horse Honeyheel, clears it up very quickly.

 

[Jellymoon]

I’ve had that before in the summer, sort of like mud fever in the heels, when it’s not that time of year. Took me by surprise. I think I used nettex mud fever cream and it went away.

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

I took my eye off the ball and the recent wet weather after dry has "rotted" for want of a better word, Ludo's perioples and the skin on his heels. I'm cross with myself I didn't spot earlier, but one night of sudocrem seems to have made a really big difference drying it up.

Anyone else got this going on (and what do you use on it? ) or am I the only bad mother this week? The black skinned guys are OK, it's only him.
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Not sure if it is like this ycbm but :
My late mare had ecoli and some other kind of fungus stuff - her frog and heels was just crumbling away - the best I can describe it like, it went like breadcrumbs - till she had no heels or frog left. I had to use Metrozone tablets in the seperate areas with peroxide and Engemycin Spray

She picked it up in the stable as she was on box rest- but it came with the bedding the bacteria.

 

[ycbm]

Not sure if it is like this ycbm but :
My late mare had ecoli and some other kind of fungus stuff - her frog and heels was just crumbling away - the best I can describe it like, it went like breadcrumbs - till she had no heels or frog left. I had to use Metrozone tablets in the seperate areas with peroxide and Engemycin Spray

She picked it up in the stable as she was on box rest- but it came with the bedding the bacteria.

Thank heavens nothing like that. This is just in the skin and making it like a bit like a mouse has been nibbling at him.
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[ILuvCowparsely]

Thank heavens nothing like that. This is just in the skin and making it like a bit like a mouse has been nibbling at him.
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Phew that is ok as this was horrid to treat.

You saying it is like mice chewing him, might be far off the mark, you don't have rats do you??. I just remember this article from H&H - https://www.horseandhound.co.uk/new...ed-rats-chewing-mares-hooves-in-stable-734698

Without seeing what it looks like. I am probably way off sorry.

 

[ycbm]

Definitely the wet after dry, I think. Looks like something fungal, and responding really well to sudocrem (zinc oxide?) when I can catch the little b*****r when I've turned him out after forgetting to put it on ?
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[ycbm]

Our appy’s heels occasionally get a bit sore (our ground goes from wet to dry very fast) and I like Red Horse Honeyheel, clears it up very quickly.

My next choice if sudocrem fails to crack it., their stuff is really good.,

 

[Supercalifragilistic]

Do you have thistles? I have seen this on a sensitive skinned horse in wet summer weather when he was walking on low thistles hidden in the grass. Moving him away from the spikes solved the issue!

 

[ycbm]

No, not a single one that I know to have escaped my back hoe!

I was wondering about buttercup, tons of that and I know it can burn faces.
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[SussexbytheXmasTree]

I usually spray that kind of thing with the blue stuff for foot rot in sheep. Not had it this year though.

 

[ycbm]

I usually spray that kind of thing with the blue stuff for foot rot in sheep. Not had it this year though.

Thanks, I just happen to be having coffee with a sheep farmer tomorrow ?

 

[Flicker]

My late mare got quite bad thrush in one foot and the farrier recommended smearing it with Waitrose anti-bacterial liquid hand soap, which he’d seen work very well with another client’s pony. It actually worked a treat (and smelled nice). I love weird little hacks and tricks.

 

[PapaverFollis]

Granny horse got this once. Either wet after a long dry spell of just a ridiculously wet spell. I don't really remember but might have a picture...

I just put whatever hoof gunk stuff I had at the time on and it was fine. Didn't seem to be painful or anything but did look alarming. I'll go picture hunting.

 

[PapaverFollis]

It was during out barefoot experience that didn't work out for Granny. And looking at the series of pictures I think it was just a long very wet spell.



That third picture down looks awful!! Amazingly her whole foot didn't actually fall off...

 

[PurBee]

Thank heavens nothing like that. This is just in the skin and making it like a bit like a mouse has been nibbling at him.
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my gelding with white rear hooves had a similar thing once - pitting of the rear of frog - no blackness, just pitting. I dont recall the weather conditions at the time, yet it resolved itself fairly swiftly. I concluded it was uneven exfoliation of the skin.