SachaH
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I have a 9 year old mare with osteoarthritis. I am about to get her in foal (it is not hereditary I am told) so her shoes were removed about a month ago (she has been correctively shod since the osteoarthritis was discovered). Around the same time I noticed a circle of grey hair appear on the top on her hock, about 3cm in diameter, identical on both sides as well as a small grey circle on the front of her back leg, smaller than a 10c coin. Again, identical on both legs.
It is definitely not from injury recently as they are circles and there is no way for it to have been from a fence. I have not noticed any scrapes or cuts in those places, or anywhere in the past month. She did however have some swelling in the back left leg. This I put down to protein build up, which was a problem (we think) in the past, though no one was ever really able to figure out what the swelling was from.
She is a dark bay mare so it is not coat colour. The only thing I can liken it to is the way hair goes grey on a horses back in patches from an ill fitted saddle causing pressure points.
Has anyone ever heard of this happening on the hocks (and front of back legs) or why this could be? I have no clue and have never heard of it before.
It is definitely not from injury recently as they are circles and there is no way for it to have been from a fence. I have not noticed any scrapes or cuts in those places, or anywhere in the past month. She did however have some swelling in the back left leg. This I put down to protein build up, which was a problem (we think) in the past, though no one was ever really able to figure out what the swelling was from.
She is a dark bay mare so it is not coat colour. The only thing I can liken it to is the way hair goes grey on a horses back in patches from an ill fitted saddle causing pressure points.
Has anyone ever heard of this happening on the hocks (and front of back legs) or why this could be? I have no clue and have never heard of it before.