Thin skinned warmblood! Help?

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My warmblood mare has very fine skin, and right now quite frankly she looks moth eaten in patches. She's fully clipped, but everything seems to rub her, so in places she looks a bit bald. I've tried changing rugs, saddle pads, martingale ect. but to no avail, anyone else have this and what do you put on the bald spots to make the hair grow back and skin less flakey. She also seems to get terrible mud fever on her white socks (despite living in 24/7 and me hibiscrubbing, and creaming them nearly every day) It's driving me mad!
 
If her skin is flakey start adding oil to her feed and a good vitamin suppliment - like Feedmark Benevit. Don't wash the legs every day - it will only accerbate the MF. Is she on antibiotics?

As for the rubs - a really light weight rug on should help - perhaps just a couple of fleeces. But once you improve the quality of the skin, then the rubbing should become less of an issue as well.
 
I really sympathise - my quarter horse mare is like this too. She has good skin, just very fine hair and I have to buy nylon lined rugs, sheepskin numnahs etc. The bottom of her mane gets rubbed out in the winter no matter what I do.
Supplements can help - she is on Equijewel (saracen) in the show season and looks amazing on it.

The best thing for hair regrowth I have found is Megatek from Tailgator - www.tailgator.co.uk
It is expensive (you can buy a dog-sized tub to start with if you are sceptical) and I can find no reason why it works, but it does!
 
Try a bossy's bib for the rubbing shoulders/withers, they're fab.

With the mud fever- it is going to be a big thing for me to deal with with my new girl. The way we manage it at our yard is to grease the legs with udder cream/vaseline/similar before they go out in the morning, then hose off with cold water when they come in at night, then put thermalux/thermatex wraps on to dry the legs off quickly.

If your horses is that bad then it may be worth getting your vet out??

Good luck
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I had a TB like that - whenever it rained, his star came up in rain scald... Eventually I put him on Top Spec comprehensive powder when I upped his workload, and within a month, the rain scald and mud rash cleared, his skin improved, and the rein rubs started to grow out.
It might have been coincidence, but I never dared take him back off it after that!
 
I have an exceptionally delicate chestnut two year old who has no white markings but will develop rain scald in a shower and get bitten to death by any winged creature despite industrial strength fly repellants. So we have loaded his feed with oil it really does improve the skin and he wears a light cotton sheet under any stable rugs. When the weather conditions are right he goes out without any rug otherwise its a lightweight/heavyweight turnout and in summer he wears mesh mask neck cover and rug pretty much all the time. Just a sensitive boy. I do find that the make of rug can be responsible for rubbing and we find Horseware are brilliant and don't rub.
 
Hi again, well i've got fal and horseware rambo rugs for her, but she's just so sensitive! May well invest in some snuggy hoods pjs!
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Saddle cloth wise she wears only natural sheepskin but STILL look bald.
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I don't wash the mud fever every day and use a mixture of flamzine and sudocreme on it, but she only has to see mud and it comes back! It's driving me mad!

Feed wise she's on blue chip so should be getting everything she needs from this, plus red cell, alfa a oil, competition mix and sugar beet. I may try the equi jewell stuff as have heard other good things. You can feed her loads and she wont go off her head.
 
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