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My horse is prone to mud fever and normally hibiscrub helps but yesterday there was 2 scabs and today his fetlocks on his back legs are hairless and sore and scabby hibi scrubbed them and sudocrem on them is there anything else i can do :( thanks
 
Keep him in and keep them dry. My horse had it horrendously a couple of months ago and the only thing that really knocked it on the head was keeping him stabled for 3 weeks until it was totally gone. I stopped using cream, just gave his legs a really good hibiscrubbing and dried thoroughly every three days or so. I now turn him out in equichaps which has stopped it coming back.
 
Don't put sudocrem on them! Sudocrem not only keeps out the wet it also stops the infection from getting out which obviously needs to happen before the skin can start to heal. You are doing the right thing with the hibiscrub but then you need a cream ideally with an antibiotic in it such a flamazine or my vets create their own cream which costs about £10 a tub and lasts ages.

I also echo Jinete12's advice keep him in until pink new skin starts to form and then use your sudocrem to keep further infection at bay. I managed to keep my previous mudfever sufferer on grass livery without any further reoccurence by being vigilant :)
 
Really your vet advised sudocrem it was mine who told me it was bad! It might be worth phoning them back and asking for some flamazine I can't remember how much it is but it is definitely not £40 and you only need a tiny bit to make a real difference I gave some to my friend to try on her horse's MF last week and she couldn't believe how quickly it made a difference. My vet swears by it for all sorts of cuts and bumps as it also contains silver.
 
Try this - 200gm jar of emulsifying ointment from pharmacist, melt in microwave till just liquid. Add 12 drops lavender and 12 drops tea tree aromatherapy oils, stir in, cool and use daily for 3 days, then every 2nd day for a week, then twice a week as a preventative. If it doesn't work I'll give you your money back. (Receipt required!)
 
My arab mare had mud fever on her back heels , i found a fantastic cream called aromaheel , you literally lag it on , even over muddy heels if ness and don't wash it off , just keep aplying more , i think it starves the bacteria of air and after about 3 weeks the scabs just came away and i was left with pink heels and then the hair re-grew , it was amazing , it's made by aromesse i think and the only place i could get it was on-line , if you google aromaheel you should find it , believe me , you wont look back .
 
my tb used to get it very bad... i took him in washed the scab off (not if they were overly big) dried off him off with a towel.. left in in the stable over night each night with nothing on them and put udder cream/chenounction on his heels when he was going out in the morning! and now use the chenounction as a preventative measure when its particularly mucky but he it hasnt come back in years and hes in the same mucky fields :) hope that helps!

*also sudocreme is not good and is very difficult to wash off therefore difficult to get the area dry which is most important!
 
Camrosa. My thoroughbred got it really really badly. I smothered his legs with Camrosa - if you want to turn out and it is hock high mud just put kitchen towel around after the Camrosa and bandage up and plastic bags over. If just normal mud just turn out. No need to pick of the scabs because that is extremely painful and allows infection in. The scabs will come off by themselves after a few days. Easy peasy and also sorted the rain scald he had on his back when he arrived with me.
 
there are so many products around !

I use pig oil and sulphur, applied weekly, and as an extra precaution a slither of sudacreme around his heels every few days ( this means I can moniter what's happening). i've left his full feathers on, and this system is working a treat despite some serious clay mud. Thank God.

Sudacreme is a barrier cream, so if you apply it onto the bacteria that cause mud fever, it may well lock some into the skin, hence the need to wash the legs, pick off scabs and reapply ?

Good luck :)
 
Another vote for pig oil mixed with sulphur powder. It's the only thing that has ever knocked my boy's mud fever on the head. This is the first winter he's had proper turn out thanks to this, he normally gets it to the point he ends up on AntiBs, but used this mix for the first time and he's not had a touch of it.
 
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