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Would a horse be marked down at county level for this? specifically ROR. My vet has recommended nothing as treatment will cause more harm than good. However am i going to be frowned upon if I present my horse to the judge with it?

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Mine gets little bits of wax that can be gently brushed away.
She actually loves her ears being scratched, it's almost as if she's trained me to itch all the hard to get spots!
But I generally leave alone though.
 
I have no idea about showing but I have had horses with viral plaques in the past and I have two with it right now. In one it is pretty much dormant, but even when active I can take out the white bits and touch it and he is fine. The other (also an ROR horse) will not allow his ears to be touched under any circumstances. So, if you can, I would remove the flakes, but not at the risk of making the horse headshy.
 
I had a mare with them and I could never get near her ears she was so headshy when we got her, over time she learnt to trust me and I could gently touch her ears on the outside but wouldn't let you touch the insides.

I don't think it would be that much of an issue no one ever commented on noticing them but I only did a few shows with her, are they really noticeable?
 
my horse had them, he was slightly weird in that he loved me scratching them lol. They can be noticeable in some horses. I religiously made sure that his ears were protected from flies for a couple of summers and they cleared up by themselves-so I can't help on the showing front but it might be worth a try to get rid of them?
 
This is a bit OT from the original question but: The horse in my avatar had ear plaque when he same to live with me. They disappeared on their own within a year and never returned.

I am convinced it was a change of diet -- not only the difference in what I fed from his seller, but also the change in environment & pasture quality. He had been bred, raised and spent the first 11 years of his life 95 miles NE of me.

That just my own theory:)
 
all over the net it says that they never go away, and yet I've had horses before where they went. In my Appyx they are clearly related to his immune strength. They go when he is happy, they return (along with sarcoids!) when he is stressed.

In my TB, whose ears you can't touch, there are definitely far fewer flakes now he is in a home where he has one to one attention.

I'm certain that in some horses you can improve the immune strength and they will go. They're only another papilloma virus, after all.
 
MotherOfChickens said:
my horse had them, he was slightly weird in that he loved me scratching them lol. They can be noticeable in some horses. I religiously made sure that his ears were protected from flies for a couple of summers and they cleared up by themselves-so I can't help on the showing front but it might be worth a try to get rid of them?
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There's no treatment except to chemically burn them out, which needs sedation and is nasty.

Definitely worth trying immune support, though, I would think. Ludo is on Sarcex at the moment and the ear plaques are dormant again.
 
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Just one of many articles about it
https://www.petmd.com/horse/conditions/skin/c_hr_aural_plaque


MotherOfChickens said:
my horse had them, he was slightly weird in that he loved me scratching them lol. They can be noticeable in some horses. I religiously made sure that his ears were protected from flies for a couple of summers and they cleared up by themselves-so I can't help on the showing front but it might be worth a try to get rid of them?
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My horse always wears ear veils or hood and the plaque has disappeared.
 
ycbm said:
I've never put a hood or ear covers on a horse but I've had them disappear in several, I don't think it's connected.

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I have no idea either. I was just commenting that had happened with my horse.
The article does say if the flies can’t bite the plaques may disappear.
 
Has anyone got any photos of what they are talking about.
I just thought mine gets bits of wax because it's the body's way of preventing crap going in? Not an actual condition.
 
The-Bookworm said:
Has anyone got any photos of what they are talking about.
I just thought mine gets bits of wax because it's the body's way of preventing crap going in? Not an actual condition.
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It's a papilloma virus.

https://www.msdvetmanual.com/eye-and-ear/diseases-of-the-pinna/equine-aural-plaques


I disagree with two things in that article. It says they don't typically regress spontaneously where my experience is that they often do. And that they are usually asymptomatic, but they shed flakes which irritate many horses, and the lesions are painful for most horses to have touched, and I'm far from alone in owning one whose bridle can't be put on without undoing it.


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The-Bookworm said:
Thanks. Mine doesn't get that. She gets sticky bits at the edges like smegma (sp)
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Mine gets that, it's also on the front cannons of her hind legs. I just periodically remove it no idea what it is.

She does have the white aural plaques in her ears as well, when I had her vetted vet sais just leave it alone. Its still there but as I don't trim her ears at all (give it maximum fly protection) , you can't really see them that much behind the hair. Don't do showing but unless they are looking right inside the ears or you've clipped them, would they even see it?
 
huskydamage said:
Mine gets that, it's also on the front cannons of her hind legs. I just periodically remove it no idea what it is.

She does have the white aural plaques in her ears as well, when I had her vetted vet sais just leave it alone. Its still there but as I don't trim her ears at all (give it maximum fly protection) , you can't really see them that much behind the hair. Don't do showing but unless they are looking right inside the ears or you've clipped them, would they even see it?
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Could what's on the canons be bits of chestnut that's flaked off?
I tidy the ears as she grows bushes. I think she would be completely deaf to my voice otherwise. :D
 
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