Hair loss on face?! (after strangles)

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Agh! Having just wrote a thread for HHO to play up i will make this mega short...

Old horse is recovering from strangles- abcess almost healed, weight going on steadily as she lost quite abit of weight (but still a little slim for my liking at the moment) Recently wormed, appetite back in full swing, much happier horse.

Currently in a LW rug as i didnt want her to use any extra energy keeping warm- out 24/7 with adlib haylege.

Now.. she has patches of hair loss becoming apparent on her face, the skin where the hair has gone is flakey/white dead skin.. looks like bad dandruff. Shes not itchy and shes not lost hair anywhere else on her body aside from moulting like mad to get rid of her winter coat. There is some small remnants of rainscald marks on her ears where the hair has come off but her face is not rainscald, it was never scabby and the hair isnt coming off in scabs.
I cant see any lice/eggs- yet!

I thought maybe she is getting too warm so today took her rug off but in all my years of owning horses ive never had any lose patches of hair on one area like she is?

Fungal maybe?

Will call vet tomorrow anyway but wondered if anyone has experienced this before?
 
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One of mine had something similar this time last year. Only in one patch, between his ear and eye. Skin was slightly flaky and then went really smooth. No scabs at all. Vet had a look and wasn't sure. Said to continue with Vetricyn that I'd been trying and she'd do skin scrapes if it didn't clear up. When she came back to do jabs a couple of weeks later, she looked at it and decided scrapes weren't needed as hair was growing back. After another couple of weeks it had completely gone and hair had grown in. Still not sure what it was!

(He hadn't had strangles though so may be something completely different!)
 
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My small pony has lost lots of hair on her face and only just started shedding the rest of her coat. I treated her with coopers fly repellent plus in case of lice but have resigned myself to it just being weird shedding now. A couple of other horses I know have shed in a patchy fashion, so it might just be that!
 
Thanks both, im hoping its nothing and just random shedding of winter hair- she was so poorly i think im assuming its related but shes very much almost totally mended now so in theory it shouldnt be related at all.
 
My mare has the same! So weird I thought she might of got some rain scald but wasn't sure, it's coming off in chunks of white flakey skin next to her eye below her ear! Will be watching with interest!
 
She has some patches on her cheeks/nose and under her eyes. I'll ask the vet tomorrow but I think he will probably advocate some fungal wash firstly and foremost, her temperature isn't up and she's very happy in herself.

Still, most odd as I've never seen it before personally.
 
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