Tia
Well-Known Member
Anyone have any ideas? An Arab at my yard has developed a weird condition. It is only her who has it. On her coronary band she has developed small circular indents about the size of a petit pois. She has these on all four coronary bands and they are spaced about 1cm apart. They almost look like cigarette burns (obviously aren't). The coronary bands can be rubbed and the skin falls off.
Initially I thought it was just a weird variation of coronitis or mud fever, but now I am not so sure. She has had these indents for a couple of weeks now and no mud fever although the bulb of her heel is starting to look a bit shaky and soft.
I ran a search on the Internet to see if I could find out what it was as I have never seen anything like this before....anyway I stopped as I found something which did concern me and it is a rare condition which tends to affect Arabs. I didn't mention anything about my findings to the owner as I don't want to scare him; particularly as this is just speculation. I am going to phone the vet later and ask him what he thinks it could be but was hoping to hang off until my new foal comes on Thursday as I expect he will need vaccinating so will do a vet-share with owner of Arab.
Anyone seen this before? Horse is in fine condition otherwise and has never looked better. She lives out 24/7, fields are dry but we had had quite a lot of rain over the past few weeks. Ground remains mud-free here but there has still been a lot of water passing over it. She has her feet attended to almost every day and owner is incredibly diligent with every aspect of caring for this little horse.
Thank you.
Initially I thought it was just a weird variation of coronitis or mud fever, but now I am not so sure. She has had these indents for a couple of weeks now and no mud fever although the bulb of her heel is starting to look a bit shaky and soft.
I ran a search on the Internet to see if I could find out what it was as I have never seen anything like this before....anyway I stopped as I found something which did concern me and it is a rare condition which tends to affect Arabs. I didn't mention anything about my findings to the owner as I don't want to scare him; particularly as this is just speculation. I am going to phone the vet later and ask him what he thinks it could be but was hoping to hang off until my new foal comes on Thursday as I expect he will need vaccinating so will do a vet-share with owner of Arab.
Anyone seen this before? Horse is in fine condition otherwise and has never looked better. She lives out 24/7, fields are dry but we had had quite a lot of rain over the past few weeks. Ground remains mud-free here but there has still been a lot of water passing over it. She has her feet attended to almost every day and owner is incredibly diligent with every aspect of caring for this little horse.
Thank you.
