Is this still mud rash/fever?

M

mandy4727

Well-Known Member
Joined
14 November 2005
Messages
1,388
Location
Lancashire
Visit site
Towards the end of summer (what summer??) my coloured mare - yep 4 white legs - got mud rash. It started off a couple of small patches but it got so bad I ended up keeping her in. There was not at all at the back of the pasterns or under the fetlocks. It kind of went up the sides of all 4 legs from fetlock upwards. There was a pond in her field (probably full of bacteria) and she kept standing in it. We tried the usual hibiscrub, dried legs and sudocrem. And thought we had got the better of it. Then Sept it got worse. Thick black scabs - more from the amount of mud on her legs which we couldn't get off or soften. I got a massive tub of udder salve and rubbed it the scabs day and night until 2 weeks ago. All scabs cleared and hair growing back on her legs. But now all the scabs from the mud rash are just at the back and inside of her of her knees. And on the inside of her hocks around the chestnuts. Down from there to hoof nothing. Can this still be mud rash, she hasn't been near any mud especially behind her knees!!!! The scabs are very thick and seem sore but she will let you rub the udder salve in to them. I know a bacteria causes the mud rash in the first instance but how can it still be not being turned out in a muddy field. Next year the pond will be fenced off so she can't go in it.
 
What you describe sounds just like how my mare is at the moment. She has never had MF before and it started during dry weather in September, no mud. The scabs are up between her fetlocks and knees and are almost black flat and hard and very difficult to penetrate. I've had the vet twice and i am having some sucess with flamazine which they prescribed, which is expensive but worth it so far. It has been such a long haul to get to this stage and my poor mare looks so fed up when she sees me with my bucket and cream!! Recently i have plastered the legs with udder cream, wrappped them with cling film overnight and moved the soft scabs in the morning before applying the flamazine but it's such a slow and i know painful process for her i wish it would just clear
confused.gif
Any tips welcome.
 
Sounds about the same doesn't it. The black, flat and hard scabs which were difficult to penetrate were the same all down the sides of all 4 legs. Nothing at the front of her legs (cannon bone are) or the back. Very strange. But the udder salve softened them eventually enough to get the scabs off. Just read on another site that the back of the knees is the hardest place to get off and usually the last place it goes. And can take up to a year to get rid of. Great eh
 
Have you had bloods done? It could be photosensitisation due to liver problems. Hence normal treatment wont really help to stop it coming back.

Hopefully not but might be worth getting checked out.
 
My mare has exactly the same and the lumps are so hard i just cant seem to remove them and she is only 2yr old and is at the stage of wanting to kill me when she sees a bucket so have not got to the pont of just brushing them with a dandy brush about 4 times a day and very slowely they are shifting slightly, but i now feel that these lumps will never go
 
POssibly she needs antibiotics either powdered or topical (thinking dermobion, but ilum dermapred I am told by folks on here is the same) to actually shift the pesky bacteria causing it. You are only treating the symptom by using the udder salve.

Dermobion was the only think to shift my welshie's mud fever, other creams made it worse.

Best of luck.

FIona
 
I would have the vet check it out as Grace's went really bad and she needed antibiotics etc etc.
frown.gif


However, I have just treated Troy's in less than a week. His scabs were really horrendous, the whole white bit of his hind legs were one mass, I am so ashamed that I let it slip like this, but last night he did not have a single scab on his legs and today he can play out in the field again
smile.gif
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top