Scabby Legs

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My 6 year old TB was on box rest for about a month with tendonitis. He was bandaged on all four legs to help with filling and also to support the bad leg. About three weeks in I noticed a small scabby patch on the back of one of his legs(about the size of a 2p piece). I took the bandages off and treated them with hibiscrub and a general antiseptic cream but they continued to grow in size and are now on all four legs. When we saw the vet again they thought it was the bandages - I'm sure the bandages were on correctly you know all the checks overlap by half a turn, finish on either side not the back and front etc. Obviously have left the bandages off but the legs continued to scab up and new patches started to form. Eventually the scabs fall off to leave pink new skin but the hair appears to be growing back white. Have been continuing with hibiscrub and now msm cream as it is the only thing that stays on now he is allowed out. Just wondered if anyone else had ever seen anything like this?? At first I thought the vet was right but I wouldn't have expected the patches to get bigger or tunr up in other places if this was the case. They aren't itchy and are nowhere else on his body soooo answers on a postcard please!!!
 
i know of a pony who cut its legs in barbed wire,the wounds healed and you cannot see them but the pony has scars where the bandages were.
just thought of another case too.
 
my big wb had the same after his tendon op, from the post-op bandages. eventually they healed, but white hairs now cover the areas, quite good really because it makes it obvious to anyone that this is a horse with a history...
i think it's just time and patience and they'll heal eventually.
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it sounds like some sort of bacterial infection, it may be that it started on one leg then when you put the bandages on again the gamgee infected another leg and so on?

Just a guess though. Do you have any pictures?
 
sounds like a skin infection to me. one of ours gets a form of mud fever like that. it's not weepy or anything, just scabby.

check with the vet for any other treatment, but i reckon that hibiscrub is one of the best things for it.
 
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