[AskAVet] Re: Scratches...

I'll try Desitin this afternoon. But what has me baffled is that she is in a clean pen. She's in with 3 other horses, and they all share a 3 sided run-in, insulated shed that I keep full of clean dry shavings. The shed gets picked every day, and the corral is cleaned (scraped) weekly. I just limed and put a fresh layer of gravel over most of the pen, and it is completely dry. She was only in a muddy pen (cause she ran the fence and made it muddy) for a few days while getting bred back in June. I noticed the scratches around mid-August, and have been unsuccessfully treating them ever since. I use leg protection on her almost every ride, including her back legs, so I did notice it when they first appeared, and I ride her a few times a week. Oh, and none of the other horses have scratches, but as I have read scratches or "mud fever" is attracted to white legs. She is the only one with white on her legs, and it's only affecting the one leg with a little half ermine of white.

--- In askavet@yahoogroups.com, "twinpinesmt" <twinpinesmt@...> wrote:
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> desitin works wonders and it should stay on her legs. just clean off the scabs, make sure it rinses clean, waite till it is dry and then apply. if not it should clear up with the 'dryer' snow, if she is not in a mucky pen.
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> --- In askavet@yahoogroups.com, "Arctic Woman" <rachellestenvik@> wrote:
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> > I think my mare has acquired scratches. I've tried to combat it, with little success. I cleaned the scabs off after applying nitrofurazone for a few hours. I used iodine to clean it, and applied calamine lotion. I reapplied the nitrofurazone the next day. It has since spread. I switched to using vasoline mixed with iodine, which seems to keep it from cracking, and my mare is more comfortable with the area moist than dry. I'm a little concerned, as winter is approaching at lightening speed (supposed to snow tomorrow). She is in foal, and I'm positive she picked this up at the stallion station. Help! Should I try Desitin? I've also heard a mixture of panacure/DMSO/nitrofurazone works. I'm leaving it unwrapped, but every day I have to clean it, obviously because the moist area is a dirt magnet.
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