will pig oil help?

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Quite a few times I have seen pig oil mentioned on here. My horse was suffering from mud rash and with staying in and just limited turnout sometimes it has improved so so much. However on her back legs there is a patch on each one that has gotten a lot worse, it is on the side of her leg on the outside, all scabs are removed and the hair has thinned an unbelievable amount with the skin very red. Id been using sudocrem on these 2 patches with no improvement and she has also been one a course of Bute, (for a different problem but i was hoping it might help her legs.) To keep her front legs good i use E45 lotion a few times a week and this seems to work but it hasn't worked on these two patches!! I was wandering if anyone thought pig oil would help and what is the most effective way to use it?
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My understanding is that you use pig oil after any mud fever has healed up. Aromaheel is meant to be very good, be worth giving that a try. Then I highly recommend pig oil and sulphur to keep mud fever at bay once all healed up.
 
I cheat and buy mine ready mixed from Matthew Burks. If you mix it yourself I believe you would need to add enough of the flowers of sulphur to make a runny custard type consistency.
 
Yes the Pig oil should help to prevent future mud rash but I don't think it will clear up the rash on it's own - my boy has just suddenly got very bad mud fever - I've cleaned legs with Maleseb shampoo, applied flamizine to the bad bits and left legs to dry but only turning him out on hard stand for a few days.

I've then applied 2 lots of pig oil and sulphur and already the skin looks better, the scabs are drying up and falling off and he doesn't seem uncomfortable with it anymore!

Hope you get it sorted and hopefully this cold dry spell will also help the legs to clear!
 
Do a patch test first - the sulphur can burn the skin of sensitive horses. If you can get hold of something like fuciderm, that will help clear up the existing MF.
 
Personaly I think pig oil and sulphur is great, but I tend to start using it in the early Autumn before the weather gets bad. I paint it on useing a decorators brush from knees down to hoof as a preventative rather than a cure and it also keeps her nice, clean and mud free. I also put it in her mane and tail too.
 
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