tell me some cheap remedies to help control mud fever.

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My new horse has picked up mud fever all rwady and the fields have only been wet a few days!! What are some good products to try that are fairly cheap?
 
Hi there, my mare had it recently and I tried all sorts. Don't wash the legs, get a tub of aqueous cream from the shop and some sulphur powder. Mix a scoop of sulphur powder into the cream and apply to the legs every day without washing.after a few days the scabs will soften so pick them off. My mares cleared up within a week doing this. Pig oil and sulphur powder once it has gone to prevent it. Sorry about the grammar. On my phone
 
Sprayed new mare's really swollen legs with Terramycin spray (from vet) and the swelling went down in 12 hours stood in a stable (had previously been stood in for 4 days and it hadn't gone down at all). Made a big improvement in a couple of days. It's not cheap cheap and your horse has to tolerate an aerosol or you be willing to make it tolerate it. I then plastered her in pig oil before turning out.
 
HoneyB24 said:
Hi there, my mare had it recently and I tried all sorts. Don't wash the legs, get a tub of aqueous cream from the shop and some sulphur powder. Mix a scoop of sulphur powder into the cream and apply to the legs every day without washing.after a few days the scabs will soften so pick them off. My mares cleared up within a week doing this. Pig oil and sulphur powder once it has gone to prevent it. Sorry about the grammar. On my phone
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I just read the thead title and came on to say exactly what you have just said!

Buy your sulphur online - http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksid=p3984.m570.l1313&_nkw=sulphur&_sacat=0&_from=R40

and Poundland do tubs of aqueous cream

Chico had a load of scabs come up on his nose, i treated with Savlon cream for a week but no improvement so I mixed up some sulphur cream, slapped it on generously on night and my reaction the next morning was OMG! the scabs had all fallen off and the skin looked good.
I also use it when he gets an itchy dock too, sorts it right out.
 
Sudocream, slap on loads, wrap in clingfilm then bandage. leave overnight and following morning all scabs will be off. Repeat until pink healthy skin remains.
Do not wash with anything and definitley never put hibiscrub near mud fever. Just take off cling film, massage in more sudocreme and thats it :)
 
My horse had what looked like mud fever when I bought him, I smothered it in sudocreme and got the scabs off as much as possible and it got worse and worse, washed it all of with hibiscrub and left it to dry and it cleared up :s farrier reckons it was a sensitivity to UV rather than mud fever, but looks like he's going to be prone to mud fever too with his white feet lol so will be using these tips x
 
In my recent experience with my horse who is very sensitive to sugar, now she is on a very low sugar diet (SS green gold alfa A which has no additives, quickbeet and micronised linseed + a balancer) and we haven't had any problems with mudfever this year.
Last year she was on box rest for 2 months with severe mudfever and cracked heels. She was very lame and was put on antibiotics + an antibiotic cream by the vet.
I've also moved her to a yard with sandy soil rather than clay so it drains much better, they don't chemically fertilise the paddocks at my new yard and the grass is much more rough and natural (rather than a bright green lawn which my last yard favoured). She always comes in at night in the winter, but at my previous yard paper was the only bedding that was allowed - this gets quite damp and also didn't help her mud fever last year. Now she is on hemp bedding which is brilliant.
For my horse I do think there is a link between sugar and mud fever.
 
When one of my horses got it, it flared up badly and he was very sore. Vet told me to wash with hibiscrub and use flamazine - which didn't work and actually made it worse.

Someone on here recommended Nizarol Shampoo - £8 a bottle from the chemist and it cleared up in 3 days. Brilliant stuff.
 
I have found this to work very well..

Prevention - If stabled Pig oil and sulpher applied twice a week and don't wash legs off - mud will just fall off when dry.
If out 24/7 and you can't wait for mud to dry, wash with cold water only max twice a week and dry legs as much as possible before re-applying the pig oil and sulpher.

Treatment - every other day hibiscrub affected areas only and dry througly before applying purple spray then sudocream. Apply pig oil and sulpher gently over the top and to rest of legs not affected. As soon as scabs gone, go back to prevention.

Fingers crossed, touch wood etc. etc. our yard has only had minimal mud fever since using this method :)
 
Rub aqueous cream from boots or any pharmacy (only about £5) over the scabs, cling film, the scabs ease off then apply mud fever treatment such as 'mud x'. 4 horses at my yard caught mud fever and all cleared within 1/2 weeks with this trick! No point spending £50 on a tiny tub of cream from the vet.
 
Zinc supplement for humans from tesco! I start when the heavy due starts about mid September and end about May. Before it starts. This has been enough not to have it in years. When we did get it. Sudo crem with neat t tree oil mixed in. Just put it on and keep topping up over it. No need to wash off about a week later all clear!
 
Bosworth said:
Sudocream, slap on loads, wrap in clingfilm then bandage. leave overnight and following morning all scabs will be off. Repeat until pink healthy skin remains.
Do not wash with anything and definitley never put hibiscrub near mud fever. Just take off cling film, massage in more sudocreme and thats it :)
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Same advice but with Udder Cream. Worked a treat.:)
 
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