Scabby coat

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Olympic was fully clipped (legs, face, the whole shabang!) in November, the hair grew back VERY slowly and in Feb (I think, might have been april) I turned him away (with a M/W TO and a light under rug on).
Now his coat is grwing back it's looking really really scabby, rough, dull etc. The hair on his neck is looking shiny(ish). He really does look like a bit of a tramp
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Is there anything I can do to get his nice coat back?
 
Sorry should have said he's been on a bit of build up, 1/3 scoop barley rings and msses of corn oil, I have 2 horses looking sexy (one of which is on pretty much the same diet) and one trampy looking one
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Bless him!
 
I think it's just that time of year. Mine looks well but has really bad dandruff, which he gets every year at this time. Clears up when he's finished moulting. Roll on summer!!
 
Mines moulting at the moment so he has a dusty, mangy looking coat at the moment even though his coat is in great nick. Im going to bath him tonight if the weather holds up (such exciting friday nights I have!) -and see how that makes a difference. I feed him alfa-a oil now instead of the regular stuff and his coat shines a lot more!
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I feel like I'm butting in new to all this. I bathed mine last week we was really scurfey (have I spelt that right) and his coat looks really good this week, apart from the mud when rolling after all the rain this week.
 
My mare's coat was quite scurfy recently, I think it's because she's been rugged up all winter, as she has been out "naked" the last couple of weeks and her coat is much shinier and less scurfy. (once you get the mud layer off!
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She is also on AlfaA Oil and everyone keeps commenting on how shiney she is!
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Even her winter wooly coat was fairly shiney and that takes some doing!!

I'm sure a bath would help, but if you're able to, and the weather conditions/horse's wimpiness allows, naked turnout will help!
 
I'm in the same situation only mine was clipped in to a trace clip and it still hasn't grown back! so we're hairy, bare, scurffy and muddy! I think I might bath tonight too!
 
it's probably just the time of year, but you if his diet is pretty high in oil it could be stopping his gut picking up all the vits and mins in his feed, but he'd probably have the runs and look underweight too so prob not that....

you could try a hoof supplement (sounds daft but bear with me here) because the ingredients in that will help his hair growth as hoof is essentially just modified hair.

look for one with high vitamin E, plenty of biotin and b vitamins cos they're all involved in hair and hoof growth.
 
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Clip him again?
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Thats the direction I've been heading in for the last few weeks and I've been psyching myself up......I'm almost in the zone
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