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Partridg3

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Urgh...looking after a horse for someone whilst she's on hols. He has very contracted heels and when I picked out his feet I noticed a groove on his almost non existent frog that smelt of dead land. Upon closer inspection there were maggots.
I nearly did faint.
Have hibbiscrubbed and srynged in solution of anti fungal/bacterial...but I'm squirming. Vile.
Horse also covered, under belly in weepy rainscald type scabs..could it be related? Have washed and sudacremrd
 
Flies (Maggots) will have been attracted by the thrush (they can appear VERY quickly) - Hydrogen Peroxide worked on my mare (fizzed them out), then I have been using sole paint from red horse and spray on stockholme tar - her heels and frogs 2 months on look better than they have in ages.

However combined with the rainscald, it does make you wonder how much TLC he is getting.

Is he laying on a dirty bed/muddy field? That could explain both.

I should add, that some horse like my own seem to be prone to thrush however clean their bed and good their foot care (due to foot confirmation and being shod).
 
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Maggots will transfer from feet to body in sheep so don't see why they wouldn't on a horse, they probably can't hang on as hair isn't helpful to them but could be causing the sores. Poor thing and poor you having to deal with him.
 
On the body - could it be possible that he's cut himself, maggots have got in and he's rubbed himself to relieve the itching?

My little mare had something like this recently where she had scratched her belly in the field. I slathered it in stockholm tar and sprayed some fly repellant on her for a few days and it healed up.
 
Hi, thank you... His belly and under his armpits are just covered in these spots, a hundred or so. They look like they started as fly bites but got infected and scabbed but he's literally covered and some are oozing. No, he lives out and his paddock is clean and dry....
I think we will get the vet tomorrow if they've not started to improve and thanks for the info on the little foot dwellers...:)
 
Be careful they haven't gone up his sheath. Our old pony used to get maggots up his sheath in the last few years of his life. So we have to clean it once a month or of he was looking uncomfy at it.
 
I agree with peroxide for the maggots we had a mare who in the cleft had them and with syringe directed did get rid of. I would do it twice a day. They were well hidden. but as we acted straight away got rid of them as fast.

The body I would dilute hibiscrub and warm water clean the sheath(it needs to be dilute as hibi can sting..chlorhexidine is antiseptic) and then personally I would sudocreme the lot. It will pick up dust. The only thing is if you are getting vet out the sudocreme will make it hard for vet to see the spots. Its very tacky stuff. You could udder creme/natural yoghurt the sheath instead as this will relieve. I hope they havent gone up the sheath Poor horse.

Good luck let us know what happens or if you get vet or cure it yourself. Sounds like flies???
 
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