FionaS
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I'm thinking of buying a horse but it appears to have two sarcoids on the sheath. Does anyone know what type these are likely to be and what is the usual treatment and approximate cost? Thank you.
Decision about a sarcoid
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dianchi
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Personally I wouldn't purchase, you would need the vet to advise on possible treatment, esp as they are in a tender area
chestnut cob
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Talk to your vet. They will be excluded on the insurance and a sarcoid that big could be quite expensive to treat.
My vet picked up a "suspicious patch of skin" when my current horse was vetted. At the time she couldn't say if it had been or would become a sarcoid, just that it wasn't at that particular moment. So I took the chance because it was literally a patch of darker hairless skin about the size of my thumbnail. A month after purchase, we had a heatwave, it got covered in flies and developed into an occult sarcoid. Insurance had already excluded it because it was noted on vetting cert (they said if it didn't develop into a sarcoid within 6 months, they'd remove the exclusion). Had it treated with Liverpool Cream at a cost of about £300. But that was for a tiny little sarcoid, not big nodular ones like that...
My vet picked up a "suspicious patch of skin" when my current horse was vetted. At the time she couldn't say if it had been or would become a sarcoid, just that it wasn't at that particular moment. So I took the chance because it was literally a patch of darker hairless skin about the size of my thumbnail. A month after purchase, we had a heatwave, it got covered in flies and developed into an occult sarcoid. Insurance had already excluded it because it was noted on vetting cert (they said if it didn't develop into a sarcoid within 6 months, they'd remove the exclusion). Had it treated with Liverpool Cream at a cost of about £300. But that was for a tiny little sarcoid, not big nodular ones like that...
foraday
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Do not purchase!
It will come up on the vetting anyway.
Your horse insurance will of course exclude any pre existing conditions.
They look awfully huge! And seem to have been left a long time poor lad!
I had a client who paid a large sum of money each month to keep her horse on livery whilst she worked abroad for 2 years. She popped back after the first year to find that not only was there 2 large sarcoids like that on his undercarriage, but worse he couldn't let down his hose to wee and so sprayed everywhere so had urine burns to his tummy and front legs!
Really awful and so uncomfortable for him!
She did manage to remove his straight away and get him into horsepital who operated and had to remove the first 2 inches of his hose due to finding more sarcoids as well as it was beyond repair due to the urination problem.
They also took off the sarcoids on the outside and then packed them and he stayed in for about 3 weeks and he then went to her best friends place who had lost a horse and not replaced it.
Sarcoids never returned thankfully.
It will come up on the vetting anyway.
Your horse insurance will of course exclude any pre existing conditions.
They look awfully huge! And seem to have been left a long time poor lad!
I had a client who paid a large sum of money each month to keep her horse on livery whilst she worked abroad for 2 years. She popped back after the first year to find that not only was there 2 large sarcoids like that on his undercarriage, but worse he couldn't let down his hose to wee and so sprayed everywhere so had urine burns to his tummy and front legs!
Really awful and so uncomfortable for him!
She did manage to remove his straight away and get him into horsepital who operated and had to remove the first 2 inches of his hose due to finding more sarcoids as well as it was beyond repair due to the urination problem.
They also took off the sarcoids on the outside and then packed them and he stayed in for about 3 weeks and he then went to her best friends place who had lost a horse and not replaced it.
Sarcoids never returned thankfully.
FionaS
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Thanks everyone. Such a shame as he's a really lovely horse. It's actually only about an inch across - the photo is zoomed in but it sounds like a no-no.
putasocinit
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Get vets opinion
FionaS
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Yes actually it could be worth the price of a call-out and it would be good for the current owner to hear the vet's opinion. Thanks.
ester
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an inch across is starting to be pretty big tbh, I would be walking away. I wonder why the owner hasn't had it treated/sought a veterinary opinion previously?
mynutmeg
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I wouldn't touch with a barge pole - sarcoids are simply heart breaking as they are so difficult to treat and so unpredictable
FionaS
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Thanks everyone. The owner is old and ill, but clearly also stupid and/or negligent. It's very upsetting.