Odd scabby lumps

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Hi,
Wonder if anybody can work out what these could be. I cant take pictures as you cant see them, he's just has a blanket clip & majority of them were still covered in hair, the ones uncovered are just a scab with can/has been peeled off one!
But anyway he's got lumps on his left side, his right side has nothing! These lumps feel like bites but they've scabbed. Theres also nothing to bite him as he's not been out & had a fleece on during the day & rugged at night! They've been there for 2/3 weeks now & completely lost to what they could be!
Any idea's?

Ps, the horse isn't in any pain when touching them, doesn't even flinch

Thanks
 
My horse has got a similar thing. He came up in lumps all over his right side, was fine for about 10 days, just hard pea sized lumps. They then got tender and swollen and he flinched when I went to touch him. Vet has put him on steroids and they have now gone scabby. I have not been able to clip him and nothing else has changed at all. Vet no idea either. Says it could be fungus due to damp weather. He has just finished the steorids and I am bathing him in Hibiscrub. Hoping they will now heal up or we are on to skin scrapings to try and find out what it is.
 
My last horse developed these all of a sudden. My vet said they were bacterial and to wash him with Malaseb. It did help but only about half cleared up, even after prolonged treatment and a couple of courses of ABs. We eventually determined that he also had hives, we think originally caused by a couple of really nasty midge bites that became infected (they caused a sort of rainscald-like rash which the Malaseb and ABs cleared up). I also got bitten by midges at the same time, in his field, and 3 years later I still have scars and little craters on my legs, they took MONTHS to heal up :/

Vet thought the bites caused an allergic reaction which then made him sensitive to a lot of things. He suddenly became sensitive to feed, anything containing alfalfa in particular. I queried how this could happen suddenly and vet said he thought maybe the horse already had a bit of an intolerance to it but the massive allergic reaction to the bites meant his body overreacted to the feed too.

His bites were on his shoulders and belly area, more on his left than right side (the bites were on the left). Really odd. Took about 12 months to completely clear up, and even after that he would come up in a nasty rash if he got hot and sweaty, and wasn't washed off properly.
 
My chap came up in small lumps on his rump in the summer, they didn't bother him at all so I gave him a hibi scrub then smothered them in antibacterial green gel which worked. A few days later the lumps were down and left with lots of little scabs which eventually fell off leaving several bald patches, he was not a pretty sight.

I think he got these in the really hot weather when he was sweating just being in the field, his pores would have been open and got a bit too dirty. He wasnt bothered by them at all.
 
I am a pro at odd scabby lumps - some of which are more easily found post clipping. With Frank they are a local low level bacterial infection after a skin disruption = fly bites, heat bumps, sweat etc.

Sudocreme + sulphur powder mix sorts them out for him (sulphur making it more antibacterial) and they clear in a couple of days.
 
My horse has the same thing on his rump - both sides though worse on left. They pick off easily, but the hair doesn't lie flat again after I've picked at them, it's really strange.

Doesn't seem to be bothering him, due a vet visit for something else so will ask him about it then
 
I thought they are where a tick has bitten then dropped off. My horse gets them on his legs - usually the tick is long-gone when I get to them but I have seen live ticks twice which is why I have this theory. I just leave them now, I think his skin reacts to them and he gets a little hard lump which oozes a bit then scabs over then falls off. It takes a couple of months to disappear entirely. He had one near his eye and the vet came out - I thought it was a sarcoid coming - but he said it was just a fly-bite reaction. Which I now think was just another tick!
There have been lots of ticks about lately though they should vanish now it's been cold. Horrid things! He does have one on his back at the moment where it must have crawled up under his rug, so I am keeping an eye on that being in the saddle area.
 
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