Jim bob
Well-Known Member
My horse has had LV for some time, since may 2015. Finally! After spending more then 4.5k on treatments that didn't work for my boy. Steroids didn't work for him as he didn't respond to them. He did for the first 2 months then after that he didn't and he was on a high amount.
Finally. After not touching them all this summer they really cleared up! It was literally his last chance. The vet said the only thing left to try is to not touch them and keep them out of sunlight ( spoke to the retired chap at Liverpool) I said but what if that doesn't work my vet said ' We don't like to talk about them cases'
Thankfully his legs improved greatly and after it affected his full hind legs. By the end on the summer he just had a small amount around his heels and pasterns on both hinds and a small one of his left fore. I was hoping they would be gone by winter yet there still here sadly. Not bothering him though.
However the person who brings him in said they knock one and pulled a scab off and when they smelt it, it did smell. I am now debating whether he has mud fever. Though when pull the scabs, there quite dry and cracked( the actual scabs) You do get the paint brush effect, though. It certainly feels like mud fever but were he has it is exactly were the lv scabs are.
So I aren't sure if its the scabs from the LV that maybe have got infected? Or its just the LV scabs and it smells as its muddy and wet.. Or if its mud fever.
I think its LV though he does get mud fever in the winter. Last year he was ok if I brushed the mud off completely when it was dried but if I left it or slacked a little that's when he got mud fever. Though I have been brushing his legs every morning (I have only seen one other scab ( pea size) on just one of his legs) and he does go out in turnout boots on his hinds though the wet and mud still do get his legs a little.
Their so so similar and I aren't sure what it is. As if its just the LV I will leave alone and just keep it as clean and dry as possible yet if its mud fever then I need the scabs off...
Finally. After not touching them all this summer they really cleared up! It was literally his last chance. The vet said the only thing left to try is to not touch them and keep them out of sunlight ( spoke to the retired chap at Liverpool) I said but what if that doesn't work my vet said ' We don't like to talk about them cases'
Thankfully his legs improved greatly and after it affected his full hind legs. By the end on the summer he just had a small amount around his heels and pasterns on both hinds and a small one of his left fore. I was hoping they would be gone by winter yet there still here sadly. Not bothering him though.
However the person who brings him in said they knock one and pulled a scab off and when they smelt it, it did smell. I am now debating whether he has mud fever. Though when pull the scabs, there quite dry and cracked( the actual scabs) You do get the paint brush effect, though. It certainly feels like mud fever but were he has it is exactly were the lv scabs are.
So I aren't sure if its the scabs from the LV that maybe have got infected? Or its just the LV scabs and it smells as its muddy and wet.. Or if its mud fever.
I think its LV though he does get mud fever in the winter. Last year he was ok if I brushed the mud off completely when it was dried but if I left it or slacked a little that's when he got mud fever. Though I have been brushing his legs every morning (I have only seen one other scab ( pea size) on just one of his legs) and he does go out in turnout boots on his hinds though the wet and mud still do get his legs a little.
Their so so similar and I aren't sure what it is. As if its just the LV I will leave alone and just keep it as clean and dry as possible yet if its mud fever then I need the scabs off...
