Jingleballs
Well-Known Member
Casper has always had mud fever in the time Ive owned him but the severity of it varies and its never really been that bad.
He only really gets it on his front legs and the left is always worse than the right.
I treat it with regular applications of pig oil and sulphur which seems to work although it never fully disappears and he always has a little bit just behind his knees.
With the really cold and snowy weather weve had, I hadnt really applied any for a while last time was about a month ago when I found quite a sore, raw bit of mud fever so I washed his legs with malaseb, applied flamazine to the affected area and put loads of oil and sulphur on - this seemed to clear it up. Ive also been applying some of the Muddy Buddy powder into the feathers once a week or so.
I was giving his legs a good examine at the weekend and found a fairly sizeable line of scabs just above his ergot its almost like a little fold in the skin. He doesnt like it being touched but its not raw like before and is actually a solid line of dry, hard scabs.
Im now wondering if this is mud fever theres no mud as all the ground is frozen and his legs are absolutely spotless?
Its too cold to wash legs just now (minus 10 at night) so I applied a mix of sulphur, sudocreme and tea tree oil to the scabs and then applied a load of oil and sulphur to the legs and Im hoping this will clear it up.
Anyone else having problems with mud fever just now despite there not being any mud?
Also, someone advised that any type of oil will work as it basically works as a barrier so Ive been using vegetable oil rather than pig oil as the pig oil is getting so expensive and a 5 litre container barely lasts 2 applications (I have a heavily feathered cob) does anyone else do this or does it really have to be pig oil?
He only really gets it on his front legs and the left is always worse than the right.
I treat it with regular applications of pig oil and sulphur which seems to work although it never fully disappears and he always has a little bit just behind his knees.
With the really cold and snowy weather weve had, I hadnt really applied any for a while last time was about a month ago when I found quite a sore, raw bit of mud fever so I washed his legs with malaseb, applied flamazine to the affected area and put loads of oil and sulphur on - this seemed to clear it up. Ive also been applying some of the Muddy Buddy powder into the feathers once a week or so.
I was giving his legs a good examine at the weekend and found a fairly sizeable line of scabs just above his ergot its almost like a little fold in the skin. He doesnt like it being touched but its not raw like before and is actually a solid line of dry, hard scabs.
Im now wondering if this is mud fever theres no mud as all the ground is frozen and his legs are absolutely spotless?
Its too cold to wash legs just now (minus 10 at night) so I applied a mix of sulphur, sudocreme and tea tree oil to the scabs and then applied a load of oil and sulphur to the legs and Im hoping this will clear it up.
Anyone else having problems with mud fever just now despite there not being any mud?
Also, someone advised that any type of oil will work as it basically works as a barrier so Ive been using vegetable oil rather than pig oil as the pig oil is getting so expensive and a 5 litre container barely lasts 2 applications (I have a heavily feathered cob) does anyone else do this or does it really have to be pig oil?
Use a nice absorbent, deep bed and any water will be wicked away.