Equi
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Saw this on FB, wondering if anyone has seen it before? Foal born with no mane!
Foal with no mane
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AmyMay
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Wow, thats extraordinary.
Fools Motto
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Never seen anything like that before!!
joulsey
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Wow, how peculiar!
JanetGeorge
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It's probably congenital - though could also be an extreme hereditary condition. There are about 100 congenital disorders recognised in horses (horses are far less recognised as suffering these conditions compared to - say - dogs or humans.
Thankfully, I've been very short of congenital conditions in my foals - I had one born last year whose obvious defects were lack of a sheath and scrotal sack - but he obviously had a few other disorders - he died quickly a about 36 hours old. Made me panic when another colt was born ths year without a sheath - but it grew over the next 2 weeks!! He was totally unrelated on either side to the foal the year before. And now he's perfectly normal!
I think breeders tend to keep quiet about anything 'peculiar'!!
Thankfully, I've been very short of congenital conditions in my foals - I had one born last year whose obvious defects were lack of a sheath and scrotal sack - but he obviously had a few other disorders - he died quickly a about 36 hours old. Made me panic when another colt was born ths year without a sheath - but it grew over the next 2 weeks!! He was totally unrelated on either side to the foal the year before. And now he's perfectly normal!
I think breeders tend to keep quiet about anything 'peculiar'!!
Equi
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Yeah they sure do! I did think it would be something like that but its not something i have ever seen before. I hope it doesn't start a new trend of "hairless" horses
Enfys
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I saw another one on FB today about a filly born with no lower lip, at all. I will find the link.
I think that breeders would tend to keep quiet about these abnormalities in case it affected their stallion reputation, but I imagine that the large tb studs (purely because of numbers bred) see quite a few over the years.
In the case of the maneless foal, knowing nothing about this sort of thing at all, would it develop or always be like that, and could it just be the tip of the iceburg so to speak and he has other, unseen, abnormalities? It would be interesting to see him in a year.
Janet, sorry to hear about your colt, but how interesting that the later one grew a sheath. Literally grew it? Was he full term?
I think that breeders would tend to keep quiet about these abnormalities in case it affected their stallion reputation, but I imagine that the large tb studs (purely because of numbers bred) see quite a few over the years.
In the case of the maneless foal, knowing nothing about this sort of thing at all, would it develop or always be like that, and could it just be the tip of the iceburg so to speak and he has other, unseen, abnormalities? It would be interesting to see him in a year.
Janet, sorry to hear about your colt, but how interesting that the later one grew a sheath. Literally grew it? Was he full term?
Enfys
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Equi
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Strange!! Suppose it is a little like a cleft lip - which most animals can get
JanetGeorge
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Oh yes - he was 344 days! I only found it immediately because he was the first foal this year and I was a bit paranoid! But totally unrelated mare and stalion. After that I spent days expecting him to die - after a week, there was a part sheath and within 3 weeks looked totally normal!