TheHairyOne
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Hi all, hoping for some insight and help and advice on the above.
Now this is not my horse (at least not yet), but I strongly suspect that a former hairy (now full clipped and hogged) probably has mites. It defo did last summer as was treated using the injections.
Now this horses legs randomly swell (and it looks like rings up and down them) and is periodically itching them.
This wouldn't bother me in the slightest other than the fact our summer fields are only split by electric fence and it keeps coming down so he gets in with my super hairy gypsy vanner with a 2 foot long mane and beautiful feathers etc.
I have never experienced mites of any sort and from some readying once they have them it's very, very difficult to get rid of them, but I've not read so much about how hard/easy it is to pick them up in the first place?
Anyone have any experience from sharing a field with horses with mites etc, or even better how to stop my lovely boy getting them? The thought of having to clip and hog makes me cry.
Now this is not my horse (at least not yet), but I strongly suspect that a former hairy (now full clipped and hogged) probably has mites. It defo did last summer as was treated using the injections.
Now this horses legs randomly swell (and it looks like rings up and down them) and is periodically itching them.
This wouldn't bother me in the slightest other than the fact our summer fields are only split by electric fence and it keeps coming down so he gets in with my super hairy gypsy vanner with a 2 foot long mane and beautiful feathers etc.
I have never experienced mites of any sort and from some readying once they have them it's very, very difficult to get rid of them, but I've not read so much about how hard/easy it is to pick them up in the first place?
Anyone have any experience from sharing a field with horses with mites etc, or even better how to stop my lovely boy getting them? The thought of having to clip and hog makes me cry.