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Its not ringworm, nor do we think lice (treated) or rainscald...i have had the vet out who said treat for lice as a precaution, not ringworm etc....

its been evident for about 3 months now? there are NO scabs....

im thinking its an allergy? but to what god knows? it cannot be coat changes as the coat dosent change like this does it? even the vet was a bit wtf?

no rubbing rugs/no feed change etc - she did live away/out and it started there? its very weird



has got much worse since this pic? any thoughts? and what to do? its mostly on her back - but some towards her butt

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fankooo :)
 
Will be intersted in any replies.

One of my liveries horses has similiar patches - no medical reason, but am thinking from the broken hair, it is from another horse 'nipping' him.....
 
nope - shes been in for a few weeks (should have saiat that) as she was a cow when i got her and i literally needed to handle her all the time (with other issues too)

shes a lovely pony now and is going out tomorrow so cannot be nips!

when she did go out though she had these marks then BUT they have got worse!? (and shes not been out)



why cant it be a simple solution?! shes probably allergic to grass knowing my luck!! :D



ets - i will get more upto date pics as they are worse - defo no creepies on her though ive looked!...serveral times! its driving me batty!
 
This is going to sound really silly but have you washed a numnah or anything? Bud gets this if I don't use the right washing powder, or if i use a synthetic fibre saddlecloth/numnah. He can only have cotton/wool, no polyester. Fussy pony... I don't know if you even use 1! Just a suggestion :)
 
Could somthing have nipped her while in the stable? is there every any horse left loose on the yard that could reach over her stable door?
The do look a lot like the missing hair when my boys playing has got a little out of hand!!
 
Tapeworm can cause hair loss, did you worm for them in the autumn? A couple of horses on our yard presented with some odd unexplained patches about this time of year, one had tested positive in the autumn the other was colicing and were both given a tapewormer. I think that in the same way that nails and hooves can show signs of damage a few months later as they grow that hair follows a similar pattern and the 'illness' shows after the event.
 
Caseycat that's interesting. Her worm count was low/nil as she has been wormed and then 4 weeks later ish! Counted clear.

I was hakf thinking if bloods and tapeworm testing if I cannot get a logical solution to what it could be as its been 3 months now? I know worm count doesn't show tapeworm so Mabey it wouldn't hurt to check?
 
Intriuging, are the patches only on her upper half? I ask because as I looked at the photo, I had a flashback to our mare lying in the field with a bird on her back, picking out the winter coat, with the mild temps lately, birds might be nesting early and we have a few species of birds in our stables.
Failing that, I would have skin scrapings done
Good luck, I love a good mystery
 
Yep just on her back and near her butt (top of)

She's always been rugged, not hot either she's quite a cold pony!

Not sure if to try supplements ?? But what for? Immune?

Baffling!!!!

:D
 
I assume your vet has checked the blood. Was it checked for selenium and zinc levels? I would ask for a second skin scraping too to be on the safe side.
 
Is she on a private yard or livery? After some recent threads about what goes on when owners not there could someone be trimming it?

what does the actual skin look like is the hair completely missing or just very short in those patches?
 
Nope a lovely private yard :)

Please don't think I'm being negative or dismissive! I'm just baffled:)

Her rugs are the smooth material which moves and does not rub!

I think a vet visit/bloods and skin scrape may be in order ?? Very weird!!
 
Hmm very odd, I'd have thought anything medical (on the skin or deficiencies etc.) wouldn't be localised to just those areas - do let us know what vet things.

Every day is a school day with horses !!
 
Anythings possible?!

How would these suggestions be tested??

She's out showing soon and there's no way I can take her looking likes she's been eaten lol!!
 
I had a horse with something very similar to this, after blood tests it turned out to be a kind of auto-immune disease, and was liver related. It was years ago so I can't remember exactly sorry! :) I do remember it was nothing horrendous and did eventually clear, but was quite rare and took a bit of diagnosing!

Hope you get it worked out.
 
I think a skin scraping would be simplist to rule out anything on the skin, just 2 mins of the vets time with a blade to literally scrape skin off then look at it under microscope.

They could take blood at the same time and if the scrape didn't show anything then send that off for broad liver function tests, etc.
 
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