Ringworm - What would you do?

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Weve had a cob on our yard for around a month now, he had an odd patch round his eye that was flakey and a bit like dermatitis. We didnt think it was ringworm as it didnt look like ringworm. Hes being sold to someone else on the yard and he had his vetting today and the vet has said yes it is ringworm.

Hes in a field with another horse, but was due to move at the end of the month, obviously he cant now.

There is electric fencing all round the field even though there are horses on both sides and he doesnt "talk" to the other horses as hes scared of the electric fencing.

A few liverys are now worried about their horses catching it, so what would you do in this tricky situation?
 
montyforever said:
Weve had a cob on our yard for around a month now, he had an odd patch round his eye that was flakey and a bit like dermatitis. We didnt think it was ringworm as it didnt look like ringworm. Hes being sold to someone else on the yard and he had his vetting today and the vet has said yes it is ringworm.

Hes in a field with another horse, but was due to move at the end of the month, obviously he cant now.

There is electric fencing all round the field even though there are horses on both sides and he doesnt "talk" to the other horses as hes scared of the electric fencing.

A few liverys are now worried about their horses catching it, so what would you do in this tricky situation?
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1st step, wash horses in Hibi-Scrub and then speak to vet and maybe get him to come and check other horses x
 
Speak to your vet if you've had any contact with it, and go from there. Isolate anything that has ringworm, or has had contact, and disinfect everything that it touched - gate posts, stables etc. I'd wash my individual grooming kit in disinfectant, and make sure it goes nowhere near another horse - with or without ringworm. Keep rugs etc seperate. To be fair, nothing on the yard should be going hunting/to shows etc until they've got the all clear.
 
Two friends (different locations but around Newmarket/Ely area) both have youngsters (one a foal and the other a 2 year old) with ringworm. They are stabled and turned out with others, and nothing else seems to have caught it from them. I was talking to our own vet the other day about this (same vet practice as my two friends use) and asking how they could have caught it, because I know neither of the horses have left their yard and nothing has come into the yard, so how is it caught. (Have bred and owned horses for over 30 years and never had any contact with this, so was interested to know). I was told that the practice had been inundated over the past month with youngsters having ringworm because of the damp conditions in the ground and that's how they've got it.

Both friends were given Imaverol to treat their horses with. Both have now finished the course (4 washes (just on the patches) three days apart, and touch wood - nothing more has come on either of them and their other horses haven't caught it either. One of my friends did admit that she was a bit worried as she justs grabs any headcollar for any of her horses - doesn't keep to horses own headcollars.

On my part - when my friends came down a week or so ago, I did tell them they weren't going to touch my horses until they'd scrubbed their hands - didn't want to take the risk. They were also told to scrub their wooden stables before a different horse gets put into it as it does stay in the environment.
 
Ringworm,a fungal infection ,is no big deal. Stressed horses are more prone to picking it up. We used to get the odd racehorse bring it back to the yard. Pevidine wash for the horse, Rugs disinfected and grooming kit disinfected each day with detol. Avoid cross contamination by using tack brushes etc on other horses. We also used to brush horses using a mild solution of detol and keep the bodybrush damp with this.It helped to avoid catching ringworm.
 
Panic like mad, scrub every fence post / blade of grass/ jump wing/ gate.
Make everyone wear boiler suits and be jetted down with jeyes fluid on their way in / out of the yard.

Put the horse in isolation for 6 months, wearing disposable gloves each time you have to touch it.

call Defra and put a 10 mile exclusion zone on your yard


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Sorry, just wanted to say all that before someone else did. :D

Agree with Mike, don't panic, it;s no biggie. I've touched cattle for years with it and never once caught it or given it to one of the ponies. It's unsightly but doesn't actually cause harm. Just be sensible and don't share grooming kits and rugs and tack. It'll go of it;s own accord.
 
itsme123 said:
Panic like mad, scrub every fence post / blade of grass/ jump wing/ gate.
Make everyone wear boiler suits and be jetted down with jeyes fluid on their way in / out of the yard.

Put the horse in isolation for 6 months, wearing disposable gloves each time you have to touch it.

call Defra and put a 10 mile exclusion zone on your yard


:D

Sorry, just wanted to say all that before someone else did. :D

Agree with Mike, don't panic, it;s no biggie. I've touched cattle for years with it and never once caught it or given it to one of the ponies. It's unsightly but doesn't actually cause harm. Just be sensible and don't share grooming kits and rugs and tack. It'll go of it;s own accord.
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Lol! :D No im not worried at all, ive had it before! :p Main issue is other liverys are having a flap over it! And what would you do while the horse is still infected? Isolate, leave him as it is .. ect? lol :p
 
Personally would leave as is, just making sure he's in a field on his own if he can cope with that, and unable to touch other horses. If his field mate's owner doesnt mind too much then probably best to have him in with him. Just the usual being careful not to share stables etc.

If they're that panicky they can always isolate their own horses :)
 
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