Pig Oil and Mud fever?

It's brilliant...forget mud fever, we haven't even had muddy feathers this yet year (the test will come when all the snows gone and turned the field to mud) and the hairy boy is usually got dreadlocks in his feathers by now.

Deffo try it.
 
Fantastic stuff. My horses live out 24/7 and we are on clay. They have never had mud fever and their feathers are always soft and silky smooth. When they come in their legs might look muddy sometimes but after they've stood in for a while the mud slides off. Wish I'd known about it years ago.

Do make sure you do a patch test though as just like lots of other things some horses may react to it. None of ours ever have fortunately.
 
I have just bought some from Ebay, I will get liquid parafin next time (thanks for the tip) if it is cheaper, I haven't used it yet but I will when the snow thaws.

What is the sulpher that is added? can anyone explain what that does please?
 
The sulphur is Flowers of Sulphur powder - it can be bought online or I believe some garden centres have it?? Two big handfuls to a litre of oil and shake well.
 
You can technically buy the sulphur at your local chemist as well - although mine thought I was planning to be a terrorist when I tried it. They were also a bit taken aback at the idea of 5 litre containers of liquid paraffin (it is normally used to ease constipation). Have said they would get it for me for weeks they kept myseriously not having receieved it in thier deliveries. So I gave up and now buy online. There's a supplier on ebay who is about the cheapest I've found so far.

We've been mud fever free since staring this last January. One a coloured clipped out cob who has never been 100% mud fever free during the last 3 years we've owned him. Can't reccommend it too highly!
 
Pig oil works brilliantly mine had bad mud-fever last year and has had none so far this year - if you buy it in a large 5 litre container I think it might be cheaper than a chemist. From what I hear sulphur can cause irritation and soreness as some horses react badly to it so be cautious and it turns white hair yellow. I've been mixing a bit of fungatrol ointment which is a fungicide and bacteriacide in with some pig oil and rubbing it around the most vulnerable bits. I do mine twice a week as the YO insists on washing legs off even though I keep asking her not to.
 
Sounds like pig oil is definitely worth a try for me, but can anyone tell me if it's good to treat mud fever? My boy's got a small scabby area that proving very stubborn to get rid of!!
 
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