pig oil and sulphur for mud fever???

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My horses will be living out this year for the first time and one of them is really prone to mud fever. Everyone seems to use this and wondered where on earth to get it from and how to use it? Is it the best thing to use?
 
Oh yes I think it works, lots swear by it but you have to apply it to clean dry legs with no mudfever to begin with. Or else you'll trap in the bacteria but then again the sulphur is supposed to kill those. A farmer I know used it on her mare winter before last with established mf and it cleared. Didn't work on my lad so I resorted to vet first, then after three months of hell, homeopathy finally got rid of it. Aaaarghhhhh never again I hope this year. He's scarred for life.
 
Yes it does work, I have known polo yards use it for ponies they turn out for the winter to prevent rain scald too.
The oil works a bit like a waterproof rug.
Use it to prevent the water/mud touching the skin, so whenever it wears off you need to re-apply.
 
Was considering using this on my gypsy cobs feet this winter as I really dont want to cut her feathers off! We're not prone to mud fever, neither of our other two have had it but I also want to keep her feathers nice as I like to take her showing in the summer.

Is this worth applying if she doesnt already have mud fever?
 
You should only apply it if they don't already have mud fever Flamehead, so it would be ideal to start using it on your mare as soon as the ground starts getting wet/muddy.

Our horses wintered out 24/7 for the first time last year and we used pig oil and sulphur on all of them. Some are hairies, some aren't. And they all stayed mud fever free.

Theresa on here has a really great PM about this, she is the absolute pig oil and sulphur guru. If you ask her for the information I bet she'd be delighted to send it over.
 
I use it too, and so do a few others at my yard. It's good as the mud never gets to the skin as it acts like a barrier.

As others have said, start using it now to prevent the onset of it. Don't apply it to wet legs with any cuts or signs of mudfever.

I reapply it as and when is necessary. Half the time, if my mare came in with horrid muddy legs, (she has quite a deep bed) by the morning all the mud would be gone too as it just flakes off.

You can use it all over the body. One thing I will say though OP, is to do a patch test first as some horses can react to it and it can burn them.

Goodluck.x
 
Yes it works. My horse came to me 3 years ago with mud fever which got so bad he needed antibiotics. So I started him on the pig oil and sulphur which I order from Ebay. I apply it every 6 weeks all year round and last year he had no mud fever at all and he was knee deep in mud some days the fields were so bad with rain. So far so good this year, he is due another application this week, so I will keep him in for a few hours to let his legs dry out and slather it on at the weekend. It also leaves his legs yellow for the first day, but after that his white bits are really white - I think the oil is used for shining up feathers on shire horses or something
 
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