Mansel
Active Member
I'm 99.99% sure my horse has ringworm, as I've treated it on other horses before and am pretty familiar with the symptoms and treatment. As soon as I discovered it, I bathed him
Head to toe in hibiscrub, and am treating the individual patches disinfecting them twice a day& then using miconazole cream, and keeping him in away from the others.
For the previous few weeks he has only been out with 1 other horse who isn't showing any signs, and the owner has kept him in on my advice away from the other liveries for the last 5 days but is now annoyed her horse is staying in, says her vet says "a week is more than enough incubation period" (which i told er was irresponsible and bas advice in my eyes, if it actually came from a vet) and wants to turn him out in the other field with the other liveries, who understandably are not particularly keen. There's only 5 horses on our yard, completely DIY farm and farmer takes no interest.
My problem is that she's now saying I don't even know it is ringworm, and her horse could be staying in unnecessarily. She wants me to get the vet out to do a skin scrape but I had no intentions of paying a vet to tell me what I already know, but she is getting on my case and I'm starting to doubt my ability to hold my ground to keep the peace. Am I in the wrong not getting the vet??
Head to toe in hibiscrub, and am treating the individual patches disinfecting them twice a day& then using miconazole cream, and keeping him in away from the others.
For the previous few weeks he has only been out with 1 other horse who isn't showing any signs, and the owner has kept him in on my advice away from the other liveries for the last 5 days but is now annoyed her horse is staying in, says her vet says "a week is more than enough incubation period" (which i told er was irresponsible and bas advice in my eyes, if it actually came from a vet) and wants to turn him out in the other field with the other liveries, who understandably are not particularly keen. There's only 5 horses on our yard, completely DIY farm and farmer takes no interest.
My problem is that she's now saying I don't even know it is ringworm, and her horse could be staying in unnecessarily. She wants me to get the vet out to do a skin scrape but I had no intentions of paying a vet to tell me what I already know, but she is getting on my case and I'm starting to doubt my ability to hold my ground to keep the peace. Am I in the wrong not getting the vet??
