PLEASE! Recommend the best waterproofer for pasterns!

[Spyda]

I am at my wits end. My mare's paddock isn't too muddy but it is very wet. Infact, in certain areas water lays on the surface after it's rained hard. My problem is, what to apply to her pasterns and fetlocks to prevent them becoming more chapped.... inevitably leading to MF scabs forming?

I already liberally use Pig Oil with sulphur on her legs and tail, PLUS apply a thick layer of well-rubbed-in Sudocreme to around her pasterns and heels once or sometimes twice a day. And also have Keratex Mud Shield Powder and Lincoln Muddy Buddy powder that I apply as well. I thoroughly towel dry her legs each afternoon when I bring her in at 4pm and put on Coolex or Thermatex leg wraps over night to ensure her lower legs are dried. Dispite my best efforts, I notice her white legs were rather red in places yesterday. So.... what else can I do to properly protect her? Short of confining her to her stable to keep her dry? Deep sigh....

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[somethingillremember]

I find IV Horse ( For/4 Horse ) MFP Mud Fever Prevention is brill for just the problem you have . I use it maybe every 3 days , it has lanolin , liquid paraffin and tea tree . The lanolin is great for softening the skin ( stops the scabs cracking) tea tree for infection prevention and liquid paraffin to act as a breathable membrane . Brill brill brill

 

[Izzwizz]

I find that baby bum cream as in zinc and castor oil is good. It allows the skin to breathe as it would on a babys bum, and repels water. Dont wash the legs off every day. Much as its a nuisance, dont wash the legs, just leave them, and top up the cream daily as needed. If you wash daily then you are removing any natural oils/new skin cells that are forming where previously sore.

 

[MerrySherryRider]

Just wonder if less would be more.

My mare has white socks and sensitive skin, but despite her love of wading through the stream in her paddock and mud collecting ability, she does well with just Keratex Mud Shield Powder.

She comes in with legs covered in wet mud but apart from having a deepish straw bed, I do nothing.
Before turning out the next morning, the dry mud is brushed off with a dandy brush and more KMS powder applied using my fingers to massage it gently in. Under that mud she's gleaming white.

Just wondering if, when you hose the legs off, towel vigorously and use leg wraps, the grit is aggravating the skin, when the integrity of the skin is most vulnerable and the warmth from the wraps makes her skin sore?

 

[glamourpuss]

I agree with horserider. I think too much washing causes mudfever.
I like their legs to dry out overnight then brush off in the morning.
I've got 1 who only has to glance at a moist area & his legs flare up so I feel your pain.

His current programme is if legs are wet & not muddy then bandage at night (with cream & cling film on any scabby bits). In the morning apply baby oil/pig oil to any non scabby legs & mudbar plus to any scabby bits. I keep this up just rubbing more cream in to take the softened scabs off (provided legs are clean). Then once a week I give all the legs a good wash with either Nizoral or Head & Shoulders with Pyrithione Zinc. I use this to get all the built up cream & left over softened scabs off. All the legs are then thoroughly dried. Any mud fever areas remaing have Mycil athletes foot powder rubbed in. Then bandaged up.

If legs are muddy I treat the same I just don't bandage & I brush all dried mud off in the morning.