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Any ideas what you think this is? And how you would treat it?
She has had it since I got her.
Vet had a look last week and said take her rug off and let it breathe. Grass and a bit of love will clear this up.
He said its just her bodies way of showing how poor she is/has been.

So any other ideas as I'm not convinced. Her other side isn't as bad.
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Looks a bit like weird rainscald but I would trust your vet and agree it is just scurf from having been poor and having a rough winter. Dr Green and some Vit D will do the trick
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Thank you
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I thought rainscald at first. Or even sweat rashes. But I wash her off so thoroughly!

Her back legs were pretty gross as well but they have improved loads. I pulled most of the scabbiness off them and the hair has grown back perfectly.
Think she is just a bit of a scabby mare!lol
 
I've had the same thing with one of ours, didn't winter well, and looked poor.

Good bath, mild dilution of hibiscrub, and lots of Dr Green, with vits and minerals and she's looking so much better.

Give it a few weeks, let the air and sun at it, and she'll be fine. I think it is a form of rainscald btw.
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i think rainscald, especially as she has had it since you got her, so clearly no reflection on you, can take a couple of years to go completly just keep her warm and dry in the winter. I recc sudocream (only a bit tho)
 
How long have you had her?
Agree it looks like some sort of rainscald type thing or could be that she just needs some sun on her back.
Does she have a good balanced diet? Maybe some oil in her feed would help or something like black sunflower seeds.
My TB x ID lost some patches of hair when he first moved to ours...we concluded it was probably a stress type thing as the vet took a swab and it came back clear of any nasties and it is growing back with his new coat..
 
Could be rain scould - but she is an ex racer you say, so a combination of high protein, badly fitting tack, and a rug that has been on for months! Turn her out, let Dr Green do the work, she will be fine. If you want to ride her - yes clean numnahs / polypads etc.
 
I think its about 9 or 10 weeks that I have had her.
She's on maintenance nuts, oil, evil b*tch supplement and speedi beet.
Tried a really good quality mix with her and she went crackers.
I've been working for trainers for about 14 years and she is the poorest I've seen who was running at the time. She last ran 3 days before I picked her up
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Could be rain scould - but she is an ex racer you say, so a combination of high protein, badly fitting tack, and a rug that has been on for months! Turn her out, let Dr Green do the work, she will be fine. If you want to ride her - yes clean numnahs / polypads etc.

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We thought high protein but on what she's being fed now I doubt it. Definitely has had badly fitting tack. I rode her in my exercise saddle for about 4 weeks with loads of pads. But now she is in a close contact jumping saddle. Saddle fitter is back on Tuesday as I am not convinced with the fit.

She has been living out since I got her and has had a LW sheet on at night up until two weeks ago and now she is out naked!
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I have pointers (who are really well looked after I hasten to add) but without fail, before the end of the season there is always some problem with either backs or legs in the case of scaley skin. I really do think that it is the protein over load. If you only got your horse 3 days after her last run, and that was no more than 10 weeks ago, then I think, depending on how old she is, she does need 3 months or so kicking up her heels in a paddock doing nothing! She will benefit from it. My pointers get turned out in June and are not touched until end of Sept.
 
She has just turned 6.
Would love to turn her away properly but for other reasons she is still working. Trainer says she will absolutely blow her brains if I let her down to much.
She has a fair few problems but hopefully she'll come right!
Devonlass hope your having a good season
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Not a bad season - I had 2 new boys, that I got from Ascot last year - one is beginning to click and I had a good 3rd with him last week-end (he bled in one of his earlier races, so thought I was going to have to write him off as a racer) but we some how have got him right again. The other is awesome, but looking as if he does not make the 3 miles for pointing, jumps like a stag, but fades after 2.5 miles.
I know where you are coming from - and I have brought horses out of training in the past, which like you, I have not dared to stop working - and if you do give them time off - they are often at their most unridable when they are getting fit again. My boys are sweeties now that they are racing fit - and I even let my 11 year old son ride one of them out! But one of them was hell 6 months ago!
Racehorses are terribly institutionalised - and at some stage you have to break that cycle, to get them fit and well, and enthusiastic again. Whilst I know it can be tough, I really do urge you to give that horse a bit of time off - she / he has probably been on the go since it was a yearling! Have you got someone you can call on to help you out when it comes back into work? From the field, without the benefit of go faster nuts, it might be different?
Having said that, you are no doubt doing all the right things, changing its work pattern, not going up the bleeding gallops every day- if you can turn it out as much as possible, then I expect that it will begin to let itself down and become a normal horse, and not a race horse!! Good luck. What is her name, and who was she trained by? How did you come by her?
 
my lad has the exact same looking scaly scabs round his shoulders and elbows and up his neck one side. (none on back though!) My vet said its a skin condition mainly due to harsh winter, not rainscald. Her advice was hibiscrub and mild tea tree baths when warm enough, and a vitamin supplement. Given him a stable lick, horselyx, just for a couple of hours a day, (the garlic one to ward off flies too!) and the baths whenever weather permits. Its clearing up well. Agree with everyone who has said grass and vitamins will help her.
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She only started her racing career at 4. Was in a stud before that. I think that was because of her awesome breeding! Her history isn't to easily attainable unfortunately.
I got her through a trainer that is close to a few that I ride work for and school there youngsters over fences for them.
She was due to go to the meat man due to management issues with her. She was muzzled due to biting issues!lol Personally don't think she has major behavioural issues. Don't want to reveal to much about her name etc on an open forum. Not trying to be cagey but have a few reasons why.lol

We've had a couple of bleeders through our yards and with various changes they have all come right!
Hope the rest of the season goes well. Pointing season is a long old season these days!

Have a few people I can get to give me a hand. She is out 24/7 at the mo. We haven't totally clicked yet. Love her to bits when I jump her the rest of the time we're not totally on the same wavelength!lol
 
That's rainscald, I'm sure of it. My TB had it last year, just got a bit mopey and scabby. I fed him some herbal skin mix from a company called Pegasus Herbs and it really sorted it (I don't work for them in any way, just found it really worked on mine).
 
Looks rainscald-ish i think. Zippy gets it if he is wet for more than 3 days in a row. I turn him out in a rain sheet through summer if it rains (just have to watch they don't sweat up as apparently this can also cause it) Have her rugs been washed since you got her or are they the same ones that came from the trainer? If his tack was badly fitting his rugs probably aren't to clean either. Might help - is just a thought
 
Yes I have three LW sheets that have been rotated. I haven't had them pro cleaned inbetween use but they have been disinfected.
Thank you though
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Haven't read all the posts but my old horse was seriously ill last year and ended up in very poor condition. Was at the vets over 2 months. His back in that area was all scabby and mothy - wasn't rainscald as stabled at vets mainly with no rug as summer time. Just improved with getting better generally.
 
rain scald it could be she sweating under her rug lasts how my mare got hers wash it twice a day in diluted hi bi scrub for about 4 days dry well then apply tea tree oil coz creams and gels keep the moisture there witch you dont want coz the bacterica will keep on going with oils the last longer and rthe area drys out quicker!
 
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