Causes: The heels of a horse remain soft in muddy condition. Dermatophilus Congolensis is a bacteria that enters through that softened parts and it gets inflamed. With slowing spreading irritation, it reaches become oozing pus to crusty scabs. The infection starts from the heel and slowly spreads to knee and hock.
Prevention: Do you remember “Care is Cure”. You can simply save your horse if you:
- Keep the legs dry and warm, especially in winter season
- Maintain the area mud free or dry
- Don't over-wash legs
- Rotate padlocks
Signs: It can be treated if an individual can find the symptoms. But the lack of knowledge disallows them to treat it with normal cleanliness. However, keeping hygiene is good, but after seeing something infected, need to maintain it with remedies. If you find below mentioned symptoms, then your horse is caught by the mud fever:-
- Inflamed skin
- Crusting
- matted hair
- lameness
Treatment: If you are getting above mentioned symptoms, then you need to take it urgently to your well known professional veterinary doctor or specialist, who expertise in mud fever treatment. Some people follow the home remedies to get relief such as neem oil, but these cannot give you fast result as compared to the medicines.
