scabby leg advice...

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After hosing down cobs legs last night as i could actually use my own stables (long story) i have discovered he had scabby legs. They are on both front legs from an inch or so below the knee to halfway down his cannon bone. I am presuming it's mud fever however his heels, pasterns are all clear and not scabby at all as every week he gets rinsed off and covered in a combination of sudocrem and vegetable oil and this has previously kept him scab and mud fever free. They are like a long ridge of thickened scabs all together and when i parted the hair, it doesn't look like the hair will fall out but the skin is sore underneath. I have planned on keeping him in overnight for a week or so as we are currently underwater and have rubbed sudocrem and oiled him when he went back out this morning. I will thoroughly bath his scabby legs tomorrow and have a good look.

Any other advice or good products to use? The rest of his legs are fine and i thought it was an odd patch to be affected!!
 
Ours has had this. Was treating it with cream but it has moved around the leg and quite sore now. Will be using anti-bac wash and purple spray along with cream but if it doesn't clear up will get vet out. Just got a bit paranoid after reading thread on here about cellulitus developing from mud fever. Like you say this is higher up than fetlocks mainly on cannon bone...
 
Sounds like mallenders rather than mud fever. Mine gets it too. Have been pig oiling his legs madly (don't seem to have quite got the hang of it and am needing to wash off, dry and reapply twice a week)

I have also been using Dermisol cream on the sore bits, and it is now almost gone.

Good luck, it's a pain to deal with, one of the pitfalls of hairy legs I guess :)
 
Sorry to hijack but would mites only be on one leg? I have looked up some info on mallenders and I don't think this is likely in our case as it seems to describe dry areas on heavy feathered horses (ours is a TB so very light hair coverage) and they are more like a large condensed area of thick scabbing that the hair does come off with when the scabs are ready to pick. She has a few tiny random scabs on her other 2 white hind legs but the fore one is scabbed all over the tendon area. The black fore is perfect.
 
If it was mites, then surely he would be itchy? He's not itchy in the slightest. I have coated the scabs in baby oil which has softened them and will give his legs a shampoo later once it's stopped raining:rolleyes: I don't hose his scabby legs off every evening otherwise I have to re oil him every morning. I have to hose the mud off his hinds so I can bandage them, so he doesn't stiffen up.
 
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