Some might remember last year my Friesian gelding had AWFUL summer sores on a front and a hind fetlock. It was stressful, expensive, frustrating, just about every bad thing. They took three months to fully heal and kept getting re-opened and reinfected. He had to be on antibiotics twice. And by then end of it my usually sweet gelding was kicking out and not cooperating for medicating and bandaging and ended up getting sent to the vet’s clinic to get them healed. So needless to say something that we do not want to repeat ever again!!
I was looking through my pictures from last year and it was late May/early June when the sores first appeared last year. So I want to try and do everything I can to make sure they don’t happen. He had a fecal count done last month which was zero. He was dewormed last week with ivermectin, which is supposed the dewormer that kills the parasites that cause summer sores. I’ve already started fly spraying him before he goes out at night. The barn owner will be starting her feed-thru fly control and fly predators soon. For anyone who has ever had experience with the hell on earth that is summer sores, what else can I be doing now to prevent this??
for a SS situation. What finally got things resolved was a 4x dose of ivermectin. I’m not saying “do that”, just saying that’s what ended up working to really clear up the habronema which was clearly causing troubles.