Mudfever and Sudocreme

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DougalJ

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As we are just coming out the other side of another winter, this for me has been the best winter dealing with mud fever. I have battled on the last four winters with my sensitive warmblood suffering badly with mud fever on his back white socks. In Jan/Feb his is normally off the field on hard ground minimum turnout, due to how badly he gets this horrible scabby "fever". Now I think possibly the cold winter we have had this year has helped as we have had very soggy ones before. However, definately the use of smothering Sudocreme on him has been the greatest benefit. I have used every single horse product and advice over washing legs etc but have always had to deal with the mudfever. Over this winter, he has been turned out everyday with legs brushed off only and smothered in Sudocreme. This has halved the cost and more in horse related mud fever products and I am thrilled with the results. If you havent used it before - please give it a go!
 
I have used it for yesrs. smother the legs in it and then put on Sportabac turnout boots on. bring him in take off the boots and scabs come off with the boots, lovely clean pink healthy legs underneath, then cover them with sudocreme over night and repeat the following day.
 
Glad it worked for you, but do be aware some horses react badly to it! Mine all are sensetive to it, and it brings them out in red raised skin.

I use it on the leg of a horse who had a very bad wound, and during the whole 6 months it took to heal, the only time she tore at the bandages was when I use sudocrem.
 
sudocrem is fantastic for mud fever (also forsmall grazes) as works as barrier and antceptic, cant say have ever had any problems with it have used on large number of horses over the years. even vet suggested it for horsewith chronic mud fever were evrything had been tried and the only thing to have helped was steriod cream. deffinatly get the thumbs up from me.
 
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Glad it worked for you, but do be aware some horses react badly to it! Mine all are sensetive to it, and it brings them out in red raised skin.

I use it on the leg of a horse who had a very bad wound, and during the whole 6 months it took to heal, the only time she tore at the bandages was when I use sudocrem.

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As above. I've just had one that effectively got chemical burns from it and made what was a minor situation into a very major one. Rare but it happens and with all things, worth doing a "patch test" first if you have a sensitive horse.
 
I work on a hunting yard and the whip of our local hunt has his horse on livery with us. He recently bought a big chesnut mare that hes four white stockings and gets mud fever very badly. Her previous owner use to smother them in sudocream or udder cream but when we got her this was too much. We clipped her legs out and scrubbed her legs with hibiscrub to get all the scabs off. We then put a bit of cream on any very sore or deep cuts and left them. She hunted the whole season through the thick mud and slowly the mudfever went purely to hibiscrubing them and not plastering them in cream (as out hunting the mud would just stick to the cream). Although this wont work with all horses its worth a try. x
 
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