Ideas on what this is?

[Btomkins]

Friends horse, have permission to post here.

9 month old filly, arrived from Europe approx 7 weeks ago. Came in from field with suspected small bite/kick on stifle about 3/4 weeks ago. No lameness or ill health. Has continued to get bigger and not healing, staying scabby and fur not growing back. No signs of anything similar anywhere else.

We have suspicions about what it could be, but would be interested if anyone else has any ideas or has seen similar?

 

[AmyMay]

Sarcoid, ringworm?

What does the vet think?

 

[TheMule]

It looks like ringworm?

 

[misst]

It looks fungal/ringworm

 

[Btomkins]

Sarcoid, ringworm?

What does the vet think?

It looks like ringworm?

It looks fungal/ringworm

Same thoughts as us then.

Vet hasn’t been yet, was only asked for my opinion this evening on what it could be.

 

[Goldenstar]

I think that is ringworm as well .

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

Agree ringworm

 

[The Xmas Furry]

Juvenile sarcoid? They can be triggered on moving yard.
Likely, as you mention that it's growing. Obs vet can confirm once they have inspected.
Hope it's not, but it's in a place to be dealt with, without too much trauma.

 

[ycbm]

98% on ringworm
2% on flat sarcoid

I'd be slapping thrush or athletes foot treatment on that.
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[Love]

I know I'm just repeating what others have said but just wanted to say I would also be very suspicious of ringworm as when my last boy had it, it looked almost identical to this

 

[Btomkins]

98% on ringworm
2% on flat sarcoid

I'd be slapping thrush or athletes foot treatment on that.
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Exactly what I was thinking. Immediately thought ringworm but then thought perhaps a sarcoid.

Will let owners know, think they’re already on it with an anti fungal treatment from today.

 

[Sealine]

If you suspect ringworm and the horse is on a livery yard please put the horse in isolation.

ETA: Even if it's not on a livery yard it should be isolated but particularly if the horse is on a livery yard.

 

[Btomkins]

If you suspect ringworm and the horse is on a livery yard please put the horse in isolation.

ETA: Even if it's not on a livery yard it should be isolated but particularly if the horse is on a livery yard.

It is only myself and them, and our respective horses are in separate stable blocks and fields with no shared equipment or storage

No trips out planned either for the foreseeable so I imagine it should be easily contained.

 

[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

I wouldn't say sarcoid personally, in my experience they are usually either verrucous or redder than that. I have never seen a scabby sarcoid.
Echo others in saying ringworm, it might be that you would see more evidence of it if she was clipped, so may not be as isolated as it may seem.

 

[poiuytrewq]

I’d imagine ringworm too. Sometimes they do only get a patch, it went right though a yard I was working on a few years ago as it looked really weird and not ring wormey on the original horse and before we knew it every one on the yard got it.
Some covered and others just a tiny spot.
We use Imaverol.

Edited to say with just one spot I’d just blob some caneston or similar on.

 

[Rowreach]

Well I’d see that and think sarcoid tbh. And hope it wasn’t.

 

[ycbm]

I don't know how big people can make the photo but taken to max size on my 11" tablet I can see the infection making a lump at each hair follicle it's got down into, and sarcoids don't usually look like that.

Looking at it blown up I wonder if it's actually folliculitis, which definitely looks like that and could really do with antibiotics.
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