Redders
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My mare developed a small patch of mud fever, we don’t even have much mud really, and it’s higher than any mud we do have would reach on the side of her cannon bone front leg about 2 inches up from the fetlock.m; my mud patch only reaches pasterns in one small section of the turn out, the rest is clean.
She initially let me clean and cream it and it was much better, but then she started being a nightmare, wouldn’t let me near it etc. I don’t have hard shading or stables so trying to clean and cream it in a field was setting us both up to fail. In desperation, I typed in to Amazon ‘sponge on a stick’ and to my amazement, there are indeed long handled sponges for cleaning your back, which also come with a lotion pad to apply cream! It also comes with a soft brush head too but we won’t need that for this.
It turns out, if I come from the other side to the affected side, under her belly, to wash the affected leg, she is absolutely fine with it, lets me sponge, rub, clean, wash etc, and I then swap to the lotion pad to apply cream! She stands there barely on a lead rope, snoozing.
I wanted long handled initially because I thought some distance between ‘me’ and the leg might make her feel more comfortable, and she isn’t a kicker but she was spinning and stamping etc and having accidentally had a knee to my head getting too close when a horse stomped due to a fly, I was keen to avoid that again!
She likes a good old brushy scratch over her back and hindquarters so once I’ve cleared her scabbies, I think the brush attachment will come in handy for giving me extra reach!
Could be useful for anyone who has a horse who can be weird, like mine
Link for anyone interested:
She initially let me clean and cream it and it was much better, but then she started being a nightmare, wouldn’t let me near it etc. I don’t have hard shading or stables so trying to clean and cream it in a field was setting us both up to fail. In desperation, I typed in to Amazon ‘sponge on a stick’ and to my amazement, there are indeed long handled sponges for cleaning your back, which also come with a lotion pad to apply cream! It also comes with a soft brush head too but we won’t need that for this.
It turns out, if I come from the other side to the affected side, under her belly, to wash the affected leg, she is absolutely fine with it, lets me sponge, rub, clean, wash etc, and I then swap to the lotion pad to apply cream! She stands there barely on a lead rope, snoozing.
I wanted long handled initially because I thought some distance between ‘me’ and the leg might make her feel more comfortable, and she isn’t a kicker but she was spinning and stamping etc and having accidentally had a knee to my head getting too close when a horse stomped due to a fly, I was keen to avoid that again!
She likes a good old brushy scratch over her back and hindquarters so once I’ve cleared her scabbies, I think the brush attachment will come in handy for giving me extra reach!
Could be useful for anyone who has a horse who can be weird, like mine
Link for anyone interested:
