Scabby legs!

[JCbruce]

Hi I need some advice on treating scabby legs!

I moved my horse in the summer and he came up in lumps and scabs everywhere. The vet said it was just an allergic reaction and he just needs to boots his immune system. All cleared accept his back legs they are still scabby and getting worse on the pasterns at the sides. They were getting better and suddenly gotten worse. Maybe the wet weather?

I have tried sudocrem, equicream, anti-fungal shampoo and fungatrol cream, hibi scrub and flamazine. Yard owner suggested just leaving them and light curry combing them off ones fully formed but we are about to change over and he wears stable boots so they're never going to form fully.

Anyone got any other ideas? Don't appear sore at all. Thank you

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

I've cleared my cobs very similar sounding allergic reaction by spraying twice a day with teatree oil spray to dry the sores up. If she had rubbed/chewed the scabs I sprayed instead with silver spray. Now that the scabs have pretty much gone I am spraying with aloe Vera juice to keep the legs moisturised. I am having to spray because she got fed up of having cream applied and made her feelings very clear.

 

[Pinkvboots]

It can be immunity one of my Arab's gets random skin conditions usually after his been unwell or stressed.

Because you have just moved yards it can be a trigger for things I would make sure your feeding a balancer with vitamin and minerals, aloe vera is also know to boost immune systems in horses it also settles the gut, its so cheap to feed I feed between 20 and 60mls a day depending on what I think they need.

My horse kept getting respiratory viruses and skin conditions and my vet recommended it so worth a try.

He is alo allergic to so many things I'm really cautious on what I put on him, he gets scabs on his white pasterns he has a few at the moment I don't wash them I just use a hydrocortisone cream and mud fever powder and I find this dries it out and they eventually fall off.

Scabs form to protect vulnerable skin so they should be left and will fall off when the skin is better, I just keep them as clean and dry as I can and they do just go.

 

[Traks]

Has the vet ruled out CPL? Or Mallenders/Sallenders? I’m guessing not either but you never know. Be amazed at how many vets fail to spot CPL!

There are great Facebook groups on CPL and M&S who can advise on feeds, lotions and management if it is either of them x

 

[Jambarissa]

This works remarkably well on lots of skin conditions and is very mild
Leucillin Natural Antiseptic Spray, 2 x 500ml https://amzn.eu/d/959IA0W

I quite like a zinc based powder, I make my own but something like biteback flowers and zinc powder or even medicated talc might work.

 

[Kaylum]

Is he a feathered horse? Are the legs white?

 

[starbucker]

I swear by silver wound cream expensive but magic stuff little tub goes a long way! , aloe vera cream also good. sudacrem no good as stops skin from breathing. Id wash once a week max and let them dry off brush off then cream and oil up with baby oil / pig oil. Patch Test for senstivity before oiling though