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Hello, has anyone used the following products:
Oil 2 Horse
Lincoln magic kure powder and cream

Comments appreciated lots, thank you 😊
 
Thank you, pig oil reacted to her legs as she's so sensitive so just thinking of anything else I can try to treat and then prevent 😩 Thanks for replying though x
 
Sorry have no experience of the products you mention however I treated my only experience of mud fever with Aromaheel. It was some time ago but I know it's still around as a friend bought some last year. We both found it worked very well and, as a bonus, it smells good too - I think because it contains natural ingredients.
 
I have an appie who can't tolerate sulphur - but we use pig oil on its own as form of barrier. Thats inert so should be tolerated. Then for treatment we use Flamazine. Its prescription only in the UK sadly - but you can get it over the counter in Europe as a burn cream for humans.
 
Oil 2 horse seem to be a mineral oil basically a more refined version of pig-oil or paraffin (even though their blurb says it isn't) so if it's the mineral oil she reacts to (rather than impurities) then you might want to avoid anything based on mineral oils.

I have used pig oil as barrier (no sulphur) and Sudocrem mostly to treat small patches. But I have had various other treatments as not the same seems to work every time. I used to mix a bit of oil with fungatrol ointment and that worked quite well.
 
I have never used sulphur, just pig oil alone and she reacted to it so I was hoping maybe a powder might be best to treat, not sure don't want to buy lots of different products if people have used and don't like 😞 Thanks
 
I'm treating a bout of MF as we speak and my bottle of Neem Oil has been a godsend! With all the properties that Neem Oil has, it has managed to take care of our MF excellently.

I'm very impressed with the oil. I'm glad i had some (as i've used it in the past on minor cuts/abrasions and also in fly spray.

I do as a matter of course use Pig Oil and Sulphur on his very hairy legs. The MF i'm treating at present has been on his tummy and back of his upper forearms and behind his elbows. After cleaning up, I've dowsed the areas in Neem Oil and it has worked a treat!
 
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I've not used either of those products so can't comment I'm afraid but like a previous poster have used Aromaheel successfully in the past.

A company called Amberley Aromatics also do a set of winter relief products which I have tried this year and found them to be effective.
 
Janovich said:
I'm treating a bout of MF as we speak and my bottle of Neem Oil has been a godsend! With all the properties that Neem Oil has, it has managed to take care of our MF excellently.

I'm very impressed with the oil. I'm glad i had some (as i've used it in the past on minor cuts/abrasions and also in fly spray.

I do as a matter of course use Pig Oil and Sulphur on his very hairy legs. The MF i'm treating at present has been on his tummy and back of his upper forearms and behind his elbows. After cleaning up, I've dowsed the areas in Neem Oil and it has worked a treat!
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Can you share a link to the Neem oil you use? I bought some online to use as fly spray, and diluted it per instructions and it was useless, and didn't smell. Think neem meant to stink?
Link to good cost effective source be much appreciated. Ideally the raw material cheaply versus someone selling it ready to go as flyspray etc.

Thanks
 
I've not used either of the products you mentioned

The only product I used was years ago which worked very well was Barrier Heel to Hoof, I have just dragged an unused unopened pot out of the cupboard to read the name of it
you could of had that but it says Expiry Date 2014 so it should really go in the bin now :-)
 
NAF Mud guard barrier cream is legendary. MSM based cream with herbal stuff in and has meant my horse hasn't suffered as much as normal and my hands are lovely too :D Tried various others but wouldn't go past this as don't need to seem to apply it as often either!
 
leflynn said:
NAF Mud guard barrier cream is legendary. MSM based cream with herbal stuff in and has meant my horse hasn't suffered as much as normal and my hands are lovely too :D Tried various others but wouldn't go past this as don't need to seem to apply it as often either!
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Hello, I have been looking at this, but wasn't sure if this was to treat, I thought it was just to prevent, have you used this to treat? Thanks
 
I use the NAF one & really like it. For general prevention I use plain pig oil. The lovely French lady on our yard is using Elizabeth Arden 8 hour cream. It was actually designed for use on horses and it's flippin amazing - just a teeny bit pricey!
 
My horse has struggled with mud fever the last couple of years. He has had antibiotics and 2 huge tubs of Flamazine. I tried washing with Hibiscrub, washing without Hibiscrub, washing every other day, not washing at all, creams to soften the scabs, powder to dry the scabs. In the end I gave up then a week ago when Googling the subject I kept coming across anecdotal evidence of mud fever and vitamin E deficiency - apparently hay and winter grass have no vitamin E - so I started him on a vitamin E supplement. Within 48 hours the scabs were falling off themselves and the skin underneath was pink and healthy. This healing has continued and the scabs are 50% better in just 10 days. If I had not seen it with my own eyes I just would not have believed a vitamin supplement could make so much difference. Apparently you need the natural vitamin E rather than the synthetic one.
 
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