Mudfever?

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Can mild mudfever make a horse slightly lame? Daisy has been very slightly lame on hard ground for a couple of days, seems to be getting better now. No obvious heat or swelling, very small amount of fluid but then her legs normally have huge feathers on them so I can't compare them to what they are like normally.

One of my friends had a look for me tonight and found a small scabby patch and a bit of pus just near her ergot. I've hibiscrubbed and sudocreamed on the grounds that whatever it is it can't do any harm.

Other folk on the yard reckoned that my friend was wrong and that mudfever wouldn't make her lame. One said that her horse had it all up one leg and that he was just fine.

What do you reckon?
 
Yes it can - Sparky had it slightly and was lame for about 5 days. He now has it again
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But is completely sound *rolls eyes* I think it depends really!
 
If you look at it like this, when you have a cut sometimes you wouldnt even know they are there, yet over times they hurt like hell!! So if you think like that, sometimes it will make them lame because it hurts, sometimes it wont hurt and therefore there will be no lameness...
 
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Absolutely, my old mare got it terribly badly one winter and she was never bothered but Willow gets a bit the size of a 10p piece and is hopping, wuss!
 
bear in mind the weather is getting mild, and the grass shoots through when the temp reaches 9 degrees.

just keep an eye on her, as it's prime time for laminitis.


some can go lame through mudfever, but I doubt that small amount would make her lame.
 
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bear in mind the weather is getting mild, and the grass shoots through when the temp reaches 9 degrees.

just keep an eye on her, as it's prime time for laminitis.


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It is a constant worry with a good doer but I've had her two years now and she's never had it yet. This year I'm at a different yard and I can restrict her grazing to a really small patch and strip graze her across with plenty of hay instead of grass so hopefully so won't get laminitic. Is there anything that would indiciate mild laminitis other than a digital pulse?
 
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