Scratches/Mud fever

What an EXHAUSTING DAY! I spent 5 hours at the barn. Snow was falling off the roof of the indoor so that means it was not a good day to ride. So I lunged at the trot for 25 mins in the Passoa rig. Then it was to tend to the scratches I mentioned earlier that my mare spent 6 days in the vet clinic for.

These things are resilient! My mare has not been in turn out for about 6 weeks now she is walked for 40 minutes a day and ridden for 1 hour. Her legs are washed and scrubbed twice daily and her legs are ice booted. Then she is wrapped up all the time. We realized our scrubbing was not as good as it could be and we were using the wrong soap but now we are on track.

Syd gets walked 20 minutes in the morning after getting her legs scrubbed. Then wrapped all fours in regular standing wraps.

She then gets ridden for 1 hour mix of walk trot canter mostly walk because she is still a rehab horse.

Then the night routine goes by icing for 20minutes and then scrubbing very well (usually requires tranq). Then scratches cream is applied followed by poltice from the hoof to the hock. Then plastic wrap is put on over the poltice followed by disposable standing wraps and vet wrap on top (starting at the hoof to the hock). The night routine from start to finish including riding takes about 4 hours. But we really need to beat these scratches!

They are nasty things. All routines and information from above have been guided and approve by our team of vets

Syd is on the mend!

Happy Oscars night!