Strange lumps on pony

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My NF filly is pickled with strange and itchy lumps!!!

Some have heads, others don't but they are the size of a 10p/50p coin and raised - any ideas??

The worst of them are along her mane line, both sides and her trunk and they're quite hot. She's wearing a combo fly rug which is helping, but these lumps have been up for couple weeks and they're making her uncomfortable (tried keeping her in and she rubs herself very badly)

Your ideas greatly welcomed!! :)
 
My horse recently came up with these, I have no idea what they are, but antihistamines and calamine lotion seemed to do the trick.
 
We used to see this on some horses when saddle fitting and like you we didn't know what they were. It could be a allergy, hence the anti histamines working for the other poster's horse.
Too early for warble fly holes I would have thought (are there any cattle nearby?)
The warble isn't as common as it once was anyway.
The other thing someone told me years ago was the pores in the horses hide get clogged with oils, block the pores and produce the spots, like we eat with a oily skin. How often do you groom your horse?
Try grooming her more if you don't do a full groom regularly, it may stimulate the pores to open and get rid of the problem.
Just a thought anyway and hope it might help, Oz :)
 
unicornleather said:
We used to see this on some horses when saddle fitting and like you we didn't know what they were. It could be a allergy, hence the anti histamines working for the other poster's horse.
Too early for warble fly holes I would have thought (are there any cattle nearby?)
The warble isn't as common as it once was anyway.

Try grooming her more if you don't do a full groom regularly, it may stimulate the pores to open and get rid of the problem.
Just a thought anyway and hope it might help, Oz :)
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Thanks for your reply - I had considered that she may be allergic/reacting to something in the field, as I only bought her 4 weeks ago so don't yet know that much about her.

My last pony was caught badly by the warble flies, and she was the same breed as this little on. My Welsh Sec D is in the same field and she hasn't got a mark on her (although it would seem a sprog growing in her, but that's a whole other story!). There are some young cattle kept on the yard, but they stay in their pen & don't go out.

They have improved slightly on her back from grooming, whether this is due to the increased blood flow maybe? The ones on her mane line are the worse ones, so I may douse them in calamine lotion later - I'd forgotten about that!

She would be so pretty if she didn't look like a walking pin cushion :)
 
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