Horses coat coming out in clumps

[ Just because you don't like the answer I have given to these questions, please don't now tell me I have now hijacked the post. To say my reply isn't sensible when it doesn't agree with your views is disgusting SwirlMurphy. I have as much right to my view as yours, because it is different doesn't mean it is wrong. That is four different vets now all with the same answer.
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Woah, easy there tiger! I have no idea whether your view is right or wrong and I couldn't care less. I wouldn't dream of getting involved - you look after your horse the way you want to, and that's fine with me. I was pointing out that what the OP wanted were some answers to her question rather than watching an argument unfold between posters who have some history and who know how to push each others buttons.
 
Please leave me out of it, you hi-jacked it on post 8, if you wanted a discussion on Cushings you should have started your own thread and not derailed this one. I responded as the advise was poor.
 
FfionWinnie said:
Well we all know you wouldn't. Just like you don't think lameness is a sign of pain :). You really are getting to be a bore taking over other folks threads with your nonsense.
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That is really nasty and unkind. And totally unnecessary FW by the way.

And yes believe or not a horse can sometimes appear lame or unsound and its cause is NOT caused by pain. Sometimes it can also be attributed to mechanical lameness as a result of constriction of a tendon or ligament as was in my horses case with the scar tissue by his ligament. And it can be attributed to neurological deficit too.
 
You are all as bad as eachother lol!

OP I know nothing very little about cushings but it's definitely worth getting it checked. If you head over to the tack room I think ester had posted about it being free this month or something... The test that is. Worth doing for piece of mind.

For what is worth my friends 25 year old Cushings mare really didn't get on with the medication and is symptom free off medication with careful diet management. Never had lami. But I think the medication does seek to be very effective for most horses.
 
Swirlymurphy said:
[ Just because you don't like the answer I have given to these questions, please don't now tell me I have now hijacked the post. To say my reply isn't sensible when it doesn't agree with your views is disgusting SwirlMurphy. I have as much right to my view as yours, because it is different doesn't mean it is wrong. That is four different vets now all with the same answer.
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Woah, easy there tiger! I have no idea whether your view is right or wrong and I couldn't care less. I wouldn't dream of getting involved - you look after your horse the way you want to, and that's fine with me. I was pointing out that what the OP wanted were some answers to her question rather than watching an argument unfold between posters who have some history and who know how to push each others buttons.
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I think that is rather unfair to AlexHyde. I have not seen any sign of her "pushing buttons"!

AC14 regularly derails threads in this manner, including a terribly important and very sensitive one in clubhouse just the other day! accusing yorksG, who is a long term and highly respected member, of being a multiple account of another highly respected long term member!

No one is allowed to disagree with AC14 and if you do, you are accused of being a bully or a clique or her most recent one, the same person as anyone else who happens to agree with you.
 
Hi OP,

My 26yr old mare has always done this. Particularly on the backs of her hind legs. I used to have the vet out each summer but they have never been able to explain it. She has never been bothered by it, has recently been tested for Cushings(negative). I would give your vet a call Just to put your mind at rest.
 
Gosh and I wasn't even here, almost like I don't stalk particular people as claimed :p

Nothing to add other than I think my post shared earlier that the lab fees for cushings test are now free. http://www.talkaboutlaminitis.co.uk/

So little reason why not even if for peace of mind OP, my chap doesn't really tick any of the symptoms boxes but even after knowing him for a 11 years I know signs could be very subtle. I would rather know so that I know a) how careful I need to be with him with grass etc cos lets face it lami at their ages is never going to be good or b) know I can medicate if required. Also it is pretty much understood that there will likely be a lot of symptoms going on internally that we don't really see, so choosing not to medicate because he hadn't yet had lami or something equally welfare problematic/catastrophic wouldn't be me. It is a bit late to wait for the lami and then treat IMO. We are booked in next friday alongside a mites jab and soundness check.
I would get the vet out so they can have look see and get a voucher printed off for the free lab test if you decide that is worth checking too :). I would be interested to know if she is and the vet thinks it is related to the coat loss.
 
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