RAO - already

[Tallante]

Does anyone else have a horse that is reacting to the change of the seasons as early as this week? The hay is the same, the haylage is the same the feed is the same, the yard is the same - the weather is drier but it's hardly a drought. She's turned out 18 hours a day.

My only consolation is that it means spring must be here.

I treated my mare with ventipulmin and an inhaler last year and the problem went away at the end of July. Probably on its own. Please share with me the treatments you use on your horse and we can share the misery (but not the expense).

 

[Magnetic Sparrow]

I had a mare whose allergy seemed to be an early tree pollen. Her attacks started late Feb and finished late April or early May. If the weather was windy she would be fine. Still days bought pn attacks. The inhaler worked really well for her.

 

[BraidedTail]

Not my horse; but funnily enough my son mentioned his hayfever had already started - not usually until end April/May.
My pony with RAO is affected by the buttercups, but they're not up yet. Occasionally the dust gets him too when ground is really dry. I did give him a vicks treatment one year which seemed to help - put dollop of vicks in hot water and towel over his nose over bucket - as you would do yourself with a cold - bit out of the ordinary, but did help him! Another weird one - he loves those herbal tablet sweets you can get, wasn't affected at all that year!