Lumpy Fetlocks!!

[WishfulThinker]

I was feeling Beaus legs today and decided that I wanted a closer look so his legs were clipped, and amongst the thick skin I have noticed lumps! Now he is not lame, no shortness of stride - well he has a choppy gait anyway but he is tracking up fine. The dont seem to hurt him, unless I really really press, but then without the lumps that would probably irritate him anyway.
They are mainly on the back legs, but there are 2 small ones on his front legs, and these have hard skin on top of them.

They are not squishy, feel more cartilige like, semi firm. He had them before, but there seems to be more and they are bigger.

Do u think it could be Windgalls??

 

[Tempi]

whereabouts are they? literally on his fetlock at the back? how many on each leg? if theres more than one then they arent windgalls!

 

[icemaiden113]

Do you have any pics? How big are the lumps?

 

[KatB]

If they are at the back of the fetlcok, are you sure theyre not his Ergots?!

 

[Tempi]

lmao!!!!!

(sorry!)

 

[Madam_max]

 

[michaeljarmuz]

I think it could be very very mild mud fever it happened to a horse that used to be at my livery yard is it possible to get a pic?

 

[WishfulThinker]

Lol, no its not the ergots!! I know that much - give me some credit!

Not got pics but will try and get some tomorrow. The skin is not inflamed, broken etc. just he has really thick skin.

But there are definate lumps! This pic is from last Feb, and u can kinda see it on his hind leg - the closest one in the pic:

But if u compare it to this pic from June the year before you can actually see a difference in size:

He does have regrowth from clipping in the 1st pic tho, u can deffo see a lump on the front of his pastern, adn now there are a few more.
They are about 5 cm long (the longest one is). he doesnt brush as when he wears his boots there arent any rub marks on them, just mud which has splattered them. He does enjoy climbing the dykes in his fields though.

It only seems to be his back legs. There were a few small lump s on his front hooves. There is not heat etc. And actually since just trimmin ghis leg yesterday the lump has gone down a bit.

The strange thing is that my friend actually commented tonight on how BIG his hooves themselves were, and as mad as this sounds, they do seem to be a bit bigger!

 

[icemaiden113]

They could be grease balls, as he is a cob, they can get it quite often, or poss windgalls. If you get any close up pics it could help.

 

[WishfulThinker]

Will get close up pics tomorrow. He is not lame or in pain, and he doesnt mind me fussing around them at all