Spyda
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My filly has developed this on her lip. Anyone got any idea what it is?
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Ani
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Just looks like a rub or ulcer, i've had horses with similar before, they didn't last long. I just put bonjella on them.
Spyda
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Many thanks. Being close to her mouth I wasn't sure what to apply to it, if anything. Bonjella it is then
kellyeaton
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it looks like a burn to me i would just apply aleo vera very soothing!
Spyda
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I really do not know what it is. She arrived home from stud yesterday, covered in scrapes, baldy areas over her face, and that round thing on her lip.
She's got these bald areas around her eyes and running down the front of her face. too.
Goodness knows what she's been doing. Glad I am not showing this year
She's underweight and looking a mess, poor thing. Double doses of TLC ATM.
She's got these bald areas around her eyes and running down the front of her face. too.
Goodness knows what she's been doing. Glad I am not showing this year
She's underweight and looking a mess, poor thing. Double doses of TLC ATM.
kerilli
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one of mine had something that looked the same, and it went on its own. my sweetitchy mare has bald patches like that on her face at the moment, i think midges cause it.
Spyda
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My sweetitchy mare has bald patches like that on her face at the moment, i think midges cause it.
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Ah, possibly then. Before she left for stud she was very prone to react to midge bites. Her entire belly was swollen, puffy and weepy at one point. I've now got her back into her Rambo Sweetitch Hoody and a fly mask; hopefully she'll feel (and look) better soon.
My sweetitchy mare has bald patches like that on her face at the moment, i think midges cause it.
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Ah, possibly then. Before she left for stud she was very prone to react to midge bites. Her entire belly was swollen, puffy and weepy at one point. I've now got her back into her Rambo Sweetitch Hoody and a fly mask; hopefully she'll feel (and look) better soon.
blackcob
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Does she have a temperature, a slight runny nose (even if only clear or whitish snot), any sign of coughing or just generally a bit off-colour?
Looks identical to the seasonal sores my horse gets every year and which the vet has attributed to a form of mild EHV. A few days before the sores appear she goes very slightly off colour - hardly enough to notice, really - and has a mild cough after fast work. Sure enough a couple of days later one to three of those sores appear on her lips and take up to fourteen days to go.
She tends to get it every spring and I've never really had a satisfactory answer as to why from any vet, just a comparison to human cold sores!
Looks identical to the seasonal sores my horse gets every year and which the vet has attributed to a form of mild EHV. A few days before the sores appear she goes very slightly off colour - hardly enough to notice, really - and has a mild cough after fast work. Sure enough a couple of days later one to three of those sores appear on her lips and take up to fourteen days to go.
She tends to get it every spring and I've never really had a satisfactory answer as to why from any vet, just a comparison to human cold sores!
Box_Of_Frogs
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I'd keep a very close eye on that ulcer-looking thing on her lip. Be careful what you put on it in case it's something nastier than an ulcer. I'd expecially be cautious if it turns out to be the herpes virus (as in cold sores). The EHV has been associated with serious eye conditions. If the horse was mine, I'd have the vet out pronto.
kickandshout
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her face looks like just an itchy sweet itch type rub put some killitch on it expensive but worth it !!.
was she turned out at the stud ? did they spray fields with anything just a thought
i seen a similar type of lesion to this it was put down to an allergic reaction to buttercup pollen ??
deffo bonjella
was she turned out at the stud ? did they spray fields with anything just a thought
i seen a similar type of lesion to this it was put down to an allergic reaction to buttercup pollen ??
deffo bonjella
Spyda
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To be on the safe side I've emailed the photos across to my vet for his opinion. He's booked to come out in a couple of weeks for boosters, so he can advise me if he wants me to bring the appointment forward. Thanks for all the advice. It' appreciated.
ottodyl1
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Would get her checked for ringworm if I were you! The flaky bald patches round her eyes look like they could be lesions & the 'ulcer' type bit on her lip could be where the initial scab from a lesion has formed & then come away.
k9h
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To me that looks like a bot fly larve exit point.
Maggie2
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I had something similar, but not exactly the same, on a mare I got back from a stud once (never went there again) she had a twitch applied too tightly. This of yours is the right area and if she has been poorly treated, maybe that is what it is.
No idea why they did it, they were well set up to do AI and she was a maiden so AI'ing would have been a better option.
No idea why they did it, they were well set up to do AI and she was a maiden so AI'ing would have been a better option.
EQUISCENE
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The baldness around her eyes looks like she has been bitten by flies probably didn't have any fly repellent at this stud... The sore on her lip may be from twitching or could be a grass sore or buttercup burn. Personally I wouldn't panic just give her some TLC and bathe it in salt water!
blackcob
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The EHV has been associated with serious eye conditions. If the horse was mine, I'd have the vet out pronto.
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Ironically enough the vet believes this is the reason my horse is blind in one eye - the initial EHV infection, probably as a foal and passed on from her dam, caused ulceration in her eye which wasn't satisfactorily treated and has subsequently left her blind in that eye.
Subsequent viral flare-ups haven't seemed to have affected her eyes at all but obviously I am paranoid about checking them!
I've spoken to many vets about it over the years and not a single one of them has had any clear idea about the condition, a lot of them have said contradictory things and my own research hasn't been fruitful either.
ETA: I keep saying I'll take pictures of her eye and do an eye post, I'll get around to it one of these days! I don't have a picture of the sores but it is pretty much identical to the one posted above. As it heals, the outer edge of the circle goes yellow and thicker until it meets in the middle.
Whoever said bot larvae exit point, that was suggested by one vet too but it was apparently at the wrong time of year and she was up to date with an invermectin wormer anyway. Could still be an option for the OP though!
The EHV has been associated with serious eye conditions. If the horse was mine, I'd have the vet out pronto.
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Ironically enough the vet believes this is the reason my horse is blind in one eye - the initial EHV infection, probably as a foal and passed on from her dam, caused ulceration in her eye which wasn't satisfactorily treated and has subsequently left her blind in that eye.
Subsequent viral flare-ups haven't seemed to have affected her eyes at all but obviously I am paranoid about checking them!
I've spoken to many vets about it over the years and not a single one of them has had any clear idea about the condition, a lot of them have said contradictory things and my own research hasn't been fruitful either.
ETA: I keep saying I'll take pictures of her eye and do an eye post, I'll get around to it one of these days! I don't have a picture of the sores but it is pretty much identical to the one posted above. As it heals, the outer edge of the circle goes yellow and thicker until it meets in the middle.
Whoever said bot larvae exit point, that was suggested by one vet too but it was apparently at the wrong time of year and she was up to date with an invermectin wormer anyway. Could still be an option for the OP though!