Scabby legs? Help?

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So during the summer my horse developed small scabs on his fetlocks (both are white) the right leg being most affected it looked similar to mud fever, except it wasn't wet. So I thought it was buttercup burn, had the vet out and he took some of the scab to examine and said it wasn't a fungus or anything just a bacterial thing and prescribed me flamazine. Started washing his leg, drying and putting on the cream and it slowly cleared up on his right leg. As it started healing the centre scabs came off first and left pink skin where hair started growing back and it was just a ring of scabs. (Ringworm had been ruled out by the vet).

Then he got a small scab on his left fetlock, it has now developed into the same thing except it is now bigger and has too got the pink skin in the centre with the ring of scabs. He has also got another small cluster of the same scabs on his right fetlock again. I have had a google and scratches has come up a lot. Could this be it? If so what works well to get rid of it? What about Sudocrem?

I have put some pics below (not my horses leg) of what it began like, the big scab and the ring so you can see what I mean.

At the beginning
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Scabby
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And the ring (his scabs are not as thick its more of a thin ring)
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I had a horse with a similar problem. We treated it with flamazine and it cleared up a bit. It eventually turned out to be mites, we treated her with frontline and it cleared up.
 
I would be surprised if it wasn't mites, would say if its been a while trying frontline wont hurt and most likely will solve the problem!
 
My horse had this over the summer above his heel on one leg, and it looked the exact same as the middle photo. I started bathing it in diluted hibiscrub so I could pick the scabs off and would leave him in so it could air dry. When he would go back out to the field I'd slather it in sudocrem to keep the sun and dirt off of it, and repeat all of the above the next day. It cleared up within the week and there's no trace of it at all.

I think it was caused by the sun reflecting off the grass and buttercups and essentially burning his pink skin. He's a grey arab so very thin, pink skin and no feather!
 
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