Ideas on what could cause these small wounds?

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HollyWoozle

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A few weeks ago I noticed a small wound on Cookie the shetland's cheek. It was perfectly round, small and the hair had completely gone, leaving a sticky looking wound. As it was small, I chose not to fiddle with it and healed up perfectly. Hair grew back quickly.

My mum then found the same thing maybe a week later on the neck of our other pony and again it cleared up just fine.

Yesterday I noticed another one on Cookie's neck. I am mystified as to what could be causing them... the only thing I can think they look like is a cigarette burn! I am praying that it's not that of course but I just don't know. We own our field but there are footpaths in the field behind which get quite a bit of foot traffic. The two big horses don't seem to have any of these marks on them and neither of the ponies who have been marked seem at all nervous. Their coats look fine overall and around the wound is just normal. Fencing is all post and rail.

I took two pics of the mark on Cookie just now, but I only had my iPhone and I'm afraid they're not that good. My index finger is in one pic for scale.

Any ideas on what could be causing this would be much appreciated.

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My mare gets something similar although its difficult to tell from the pics hers is caused by ticks, its normally a round raised lump with a sticky bit of fur with or without a scab over have you tried pulling back the fur and seeing whether there is a tick present the ones my mare gets are so small they are only just visible!!!
 
Do you have another horse in the field who wears a muzzle? Looks like the bites Snip gives the others when he's muzzled!!!
 
None of the horses in the field wear muzzles and I thought about ringworm but it just doesn't seem to fit in other ways.

I will go out at lunchtime and do a tick check! Thanks for the ideas so far, I just want to know what it is!
 
Good luck with tick hunting!! My mare gets this all over her face, neck, legs and belly sometimes they heal up quickly other times she looses a patch of fur and takes ages to heal, im using frontline (shhh dont tell my vet :D) and it works she very rarely gets any now.... just the occasional one...
 
I think they are often the product of fly bites which become a little infected and fester under the skin and then you pull off the scab revealing this sticky small round patch

Nothing to worry about, but a dab of antiseptic something wouldn't hurt
 
Same as jen_cots, ours sometimes get these if they have had gunky fly bites. A slosh of salt water or smear of some wound cream seems to do the job. They don't seem to bother them either tbh.
 
My horses have these.... I thought they had maybe been rubbing themselves in the trees in the field until my other pony who is kept in a separate area developed them....I'm sure they're just fly bites :-)
 
i had a horse who got them this time every year the vet told me it was harvest mites my horse got them up his face and around his fetlocks too
 
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