Supplement available for Mud fever?

[Champion1969]

Are there any supplements that I can be feeding to help fight mud fever. Yesterday I brushed her legs with Pig oil and sulphur, she has feathers which I don't want to take off

 

[Spoiled cob]

My boy is on NAF mud guard.

 

[Champion1969]

My boy is on NAF mud guard.

I was looking at that and the Global herbs Mud X, do you find it helps?

 

[Spoiled cob]

Started it about a month ago. My new boy had mud fever that the previous owners didn't treat so I have had to have the vet out etc it seems to be clearing up at the moment but I thought anything was better than nothing so fingers crossed for this winter, haven't been using it long enough to know if it works yet.

 

[Champion1969]

Good luck and keep me posted Im going get some tomorrow

 

[Spoiled cob]

Thanks hope it works for you

 

[Malteaser]

I swear by naf mud guard, it's really worked for my gelding. It's on sale at the min from here....http://www.horsedirect.co.uk/shop/naf-mud-guard/

 

[chestnut cob]

Cover the horse's legs in protocon cream or muddy marvel cream. Ime the latter is by far the best.
Don't bother with global herbs products. All absolute rubbish and expensive to boot ime.

 

[shmoo]

Cover the horse's legs in protocon cream or muddy marvel cream. Ime the latter is by far the best.
Don't bother with global herbs products. All absolute rubbish and expensive to boot ime.

Hiya, is this a prevention as well as cure - mine suffered horribly last year want to avoid it this time round ??

 

[thatsmygirl]

I've always found just a good vit/min supplement works wonders. The cheaper rubbish ones didnt do anything but since being on equimins advance complete mine no longer get mud fever, bleached coats in summer and my sweetitch lad has a long mane. I don't use anything else apart from mixed with linseed and fast fibre. Feed bill have dropped big time and horses are much healthier on it but it is a really good spec.

 

[rachyblue]

Mudgard is good but expensive. I bought the major ingredients individually from feedmark which worked out cheaper.

 

[Albertus H]

I swear by Equi-Oil! Its an oil spray or a balm which is 100% natural. Works every time and completely clears it up in no time. Wouldn't use anything else!

 

[Cortez]

Can someone please explain to me how a feed additive/supplement/vitamin jobby is supposed to counteract a bacterial skin infection?

 

[Albertus H]

Can someone please explain to me how a feed additive/supplement/vitamin jobby is supposed to counteract a bacterial skin infection?

I agree! Hence why I use the spray oil/balm directly on to the affected area

 

[Bobbly]

I was told by an old farrier/horseman to feed sulphur in some form i.e MSM?

 

[thatsmygirl]

To me what u feed your horse shows on the outside and gives them the best possible chance with issues such as sweetitch and mud fever etc.
forage plus balancers which are highly rated also state that their balancers help issues such as sweetitch and mud fever. I believe it's all about giving their body what it needs to help their systems fight and keep bugs away. Linseed is well known for skin health and I can honestly say since boasting their vits I get no issues and my old boy has 4 white stockings and had it so bad every year , even had to get the vet 2 years running but not no more he don't even get a scab.
See I'm not one for putting on lotions ect as I feel it clogs their pores and weakens the skin.

 

[chestnut cob]

Hiya, is this a prevention as well as cure - mine suffered horribly last year want to avoid it this time round ??

I found it to be, yes. I do agree to some extent that if the horse is healthy then it should have less chance of picking things up (if you think about people, when you are poorly with one thing, often you get other infections along the line that probably you wouldn't if you were healthy). However, when fields get really wet, horse's heels crack. That's just the nature of skin. If you continuously wet and dry it, it will crack. These cracks/ splits are where the bacteria, which is what mud fever is, gets in. So I would slather some sort of protective barrier on the heels, yes.

I like Protocon as a prevention because it's difficult to shift once it's on but it doesn't seem to treat v well if they've already got it. Muddy Marvel is, IME, really superb for treating then preventing further problems. Mine got pretty bad MF last year and MM cleared it up in a couple of days, it's magical stuff. Once it had gone, I applied it every 3 days and he didn't get it again. It's quite oily so it does stay on well, isn't just washed off in wet fields.