Connemara24
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Or would you start bringing him in again.
Swollen leg with scabs
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Birker2020
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My horse had weird marks on her skin above her coronet band, at first I thought she'd made them with molasses from her feed but when they didn't wipe off I thought maybe photo sensisation marks due to the all the buttercups in our field.
We'd been on a fun ride two days before and gone through a water complex on a XC course that was part of the fun ride and the water complex had a big layer of white foamy stuff on top. Wwhen the vet came out she said it was very likely a bacterial skin infection due to contaminated water that was in the water complex, so gave her a steroid injection and antibiotics and I had to wash the legs in a sulphur wash and cream up well with some mud fever cream.
I hadn't realised when we'd entered the water and although I'd washed her legs down after the ride and gave her a bath on arrival home the water had caused her legs to slightly swell and have this sticky sebum coming off them just like mud fever in fact.
I gave the XC course owners a ring on both the husband and the wife's voice mail and left a message but neither got back to me.
It cleared up after about a week of treatment.
We'd been on a fun ride two days before and gone through a water complex on a XC course that was part of the fun ride and the water complex had a big layer of white foamy stuff on top. Wwhen the vet came out she said it was very likely a bacterial skin infection due to contaminated water that was in the water complex, so gave her a steroid injection and antibiotics and I had to wash the legs in a sulphur wash and cream up well with some mud fever cream.
I hadn't realised when we'd entered the water and although I'd washed her legs down after the ride and gave her a bath on arrival home the water had caused her legs to slightly swell and have this sticky sebum coming off them just like mud fever in fact.
I gave the XC course owners a ring on both the husband and the wife's voice mail and left a message but neither got back to me.
It cleared up after about a week of treatment.
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Gloi
Too little time, too much to read.
Have you tested for Cushing's recently. Skin infection can be a symptom, it was with one of ours.
Connemara24
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A few months ago came back negative. Going to test him for EMS, I might get him tested again when the vet comes out then. Thanks
Gloi
Too little time, too much to read.
Have you tested for Cushing's recently. Skin infection can be a symptom
No harm in it, it's the right time of year to test.