New horse coming onto yard with mites

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I am looking for some advise...

I am possibly going to have a new horse come onto my yard and I have been told its owner treats it for mites it is a clidesdale. Are these likely to pass onto the other horses? All horses are in indervidual paddocks. None have mites. Will it be possible to remove the mites and stop them from coming back?

Any advise would be brilliant.

Thanks :)
 
Mites are very definitely transferable. But from your post I suspect the newbie might not have them.

There is no reason to treat regulalrly or routinely for mites. You get them. You treat them. They die. They don't come back. (Unless you are on a yard where the hygine is such that these things go in circles - but I can't really imagine even that going on for too long as getting the vet out all the time is expensive.)

But the treatment for "mites" is often confused with the treatement for mud fever which is a chronic condition and for which you will treat (or treat to seek to prevent) almost constantly.

So - if newbie really does have mites don't share brushes, boots etc. Hopefully it will be having treatement and the problem will be gone in days anyway.

If the newbie has mud fever - don't worry about it. Mud fever is caused by a bacteria and it will get into the soil and from there onto anything else susceptible. But the overwhelming liklihood is that the bacteria is already present in your soil - if it wasn't it would be a miracle! If your ned doesn't get mud fever now he won't catch it from the newbie.
 
Any horse can get mites, they are typically carried on rodents and transferred via bedding etc. As long as the horse is treated with a prescription product the mites should be killed off. They are a pain but not a drama.
 
The newbie says she treats regularly but I think another horse at her current yard has them, so the two of them probably pass them back and forth. So if she comes onto my yard and treats for them then they should go and not come back dispite her horse being a breed which is prone to them?
 
Are you referring to feather mites, if so, then in feathered horses they're incredibly common.The fact that the owner treats them is good as its one of those things that needs watching throughout the year.
Its the owners who are oblivious to the indications of these mites that need help for their itchy, foot stamping horses.

Don't worry, your other horses will be fine and treatments are varied, there are plenty of threads on here about mites. Some use a worming injection from the vet, some use Frontline and in addition, some use pig oil, baby oil or Avon Skin So Soft dry oil to prevent renfestation.
 
I have 3 horses.....one has regular treatment for mites (feather mites).....the other 2 share the same field and I have never had a problem!
 
Maisy said:
I have 3 horses.....one has regular treatment for mites (feather mites).....the other 2 share the same field and I have never had a problem!
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Maisy are you not able to get rid of the mite which your horse has? This sounds like what my new livery has as she regularly treats for it with wormers etc. Are you horses ever stabled in a row of internal stables? Did other horses get the mite when they were stabled together?

Thanks :)
 
Our first horse had mites when we got him, mistaken for mudfever as it was november. When summer came and the scabs were there we got him checked.
He had been out with about 5 other horses all winter, mostly TB/warmblood types, and none of them got mites. We treated him twice with frontline and they cleared up.
Our vets told us at the time that twice a year for the rest of his life (he was 5) we had to do this treatment. This was £100 for the frontline, a complete change of bedding in his stable, and washing every rug, saddlecloth, boot, brush etc. We thought this was ridiculous as the prevention is the same as the cure. We have never treated him again and haven't had a problem. He has been out with other horses that have mites since, and we sprayed his legs with a cheap mite/lice repellant spray, and still no problem :)
 
I was about to say what maisy said, well sort of, we used to have a shire, a cob, 3 ponies and a tbx in the same field, only the shire got them ( but the cob was clipped out).
 
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