Mud Fever Prevention??

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dollyrocks02

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Hi Everyone,
I'm sorry if this topic has been done to death, but I don't venture into this forum very often!
I'll try and make this as quick and brief as I can, but what's the best way to prevent Mud fever from developing? My mare has never had it, but we've recently moved yards and her paddock has suddenly developed into a mud bath. When I bring her in at night her legs and under her belly are covered in thick wet mud. What is the best course of action, should I leave it on her to dry naturally overnight - she's stabled on rubber matting with only a small amount of shavings - Not my preferred method as it would be horrible for her to have that on her legs all night!
Should I wash them off with cold or warm water and towel dry/get some of those leg wraps that dry off legs/leave to drip dry??
Unfortunatley she is out from 7am to 6pm and I can't really reduce the amount of time she out as I work full time and she is on DIY livery. We've electric taped off the worst of the field, but it'll only be a matter of time before the area above the tape becomes as bad.
I really don't want her to get mud fever in the first place and so some advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance...
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Best thing for prevention is NOT to wash legs off, but if you can and let them dry naturally and brush of OR whisp of worst (straw whisp) and then dry with towel and then if you need to bandages. If you have to wash, HOT water with hibscrub and towel dry or hairdrier, but make sure they are dry-'mud fever breed in warm damp area'
Last year at our yard, we had a girl who wash off every day and in end she had to have vet for drugs as her horse got the worst bount of mud fever i ever seen.
In morning you can apply vasaline to heels, but i would ask to see if anyone else at yard gets mud fever as it's ground.
 
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I'd buy some MudGard from NAF.

You use it as a preventative method and I put a slick of it on my gelding's mud free prone leg every morning before turnout. So far its done the trick!!!!

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PS - I dry her legs off each night - try not to keep wetting them. With my lad, I just let the mud dry and then brush it off.

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Agree with all of this, it never came back on my fell pony while doing this.
 
my horse had mud fever last year, and i agree with all above about not washing legs and just brushing the mud off.
but i used Keratex powder and it really worked for us.

hopefully the mud fever wont come back this year.
 
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