Bay Coat Turning Yellow?

[emilykerr747]

Hi everyone,

I’ve noticed that my TB’s bright bay coat has been turning quite yellow. I don’t have any photos right now but I’ll try get some tonight!

He’s on a Topspec calm and condition balancer and lots of different supplements including doing a month of a copper supplement but it’s not making a difference. He’s in good health in every other way.

He is sprayed with Barrier fly spray twice a day, could this be causing the coat to bleach?

Any recommendations on how to help his coat turning yellow? Thanks!

 

[Barton Bounty]

It could be the citronella or lemongrass in it

 

[Cragrat]

Could well be the spray - can you change to a different one to see? Though it wuld take a while for his coat to regrow its normal colour.

 

[emilykerr747]

Could well be the spray - can you change to a different one to see? Though it wuld take a while for his coat to regrow its normal colour.

Thanks I’ve changed it to a different one so I’ll wait to see if it makes a difference.

 

[ester]

It can be sweat mediated/concentrated in those areas too.

 

[Goldenstar]

Can be copper deficiency I owned a horse with this I thought it was the sun but it turned out he could not absorb copper and we had to inject it .
He was a changed horse as well as a changed colour .

 

[emilykerr747]

Can be copper deficiency I owned a horse with this I thought it was the sun but it turned out he could not absorb copper and we had to inject it .
He was a changed horse as well as a changed colour .

Wow very interesting! I’ve noticed my horse’s coat has also started changing colour (he’s light bay) and it’s turning to a yellowish colour. How did you confirm that he couldn’t absorb copper?

I have a liquid copper feed supplement here which I may try.

What changes did you notice when you started injecting him?

 

[emilykerr747]

It can be sweat mediated/concentrated in those areas too.

Is this something that can be prevented? I usually sponge him down if he’s sweaty after a ride.

 

[Goldenstar]

Wow very interesting! I’ve noticed my horse’s coat has also started changing colour (he’s light bay) and it’s turning to a yellowish colour. How did you confirm that he couldn’t absorb copper?

I have a liquid copper feed supplement here which I may try.

What changes did you notice when you started injecting him?

We did blood a test because the vet suspected a copper deficiency.
He had this funny bleached coat he did not build up muscle like you would expect and he was a bit lethargic at times .
Firstly we gave him a copper supplement and his levels really did not improve so the vet injected him with copper for cattle and he almost immediately perked up and over three months his coat shone and stopped with the bleaching and he built up .

 

[Cragrat]

We did blood a test because the vet suspected a copper deficiency.
He had this funny bleached coat he did not build up muscle like you would expect and he was a bit lethargic at times .
Firstly we gave him a copper supplement and his levels really did not improve so the vet injected him with copper for cattle and he almost immediately perked up and over three months his coat shone and stopped with the bleaching and he built up .

Very interesting! Did you have to repeat the injection periodically? Did you have to balance other minerals to the copper as well?

 

[Goldenstar]

I sold the horse not long afterwards he was a stop gap horse purchased while another who was injured and took time out to have a foal so was extra .
I know he hunted on well into his twenties in his next home they where farmers and could easily have access to the stuff the vet used as it was for cattle .

 

[McGrools]

I think coats get a bit sun bleached in the summer months. A couple of the dark bay tb’s i ride have gone a dirty dun colour in the last couple of months

 

[lynz88]

Their coats shouldn't turn colour like that. That would indicate a copper/zinc deficiency and/or too high iron.