wierd bite marks

[swampdonkey]

i prob sound a little silly but do bats bite horses, last night my friends horse came in with a scab, when friend picked it off(thought it was mud) puss came out then it bled, we cleaned it up and saw it had 2 small holes, quite deep, only thing we could think of was bats, are me mad

 

[spike123]

bats are fruit and veg eaters,not meat eaters so highly doubtfull it would be a bat.It could be a snake bite though.A snake will bite a horse if it feels threatened or is actually stood on

 

[swampdonkey]

it does look like a snake bite, but it is at the base of her mane so don;t think a snake would climb up there,

 

[ISHmad]

Might have bitten her whilst she was laying down?

Or could it be rain scald? You can often get pus underneath the scabs that form.

 

[Hedgewitch13]

We don't have vampire bats in the UK and it's too cold for snakes now

The horse probably snagged itself on a fence or hedge - easily done.

 

[Tickles]

As others have said, bats in the UK are mainly insect eating. There are vampire bats that would suck from horses but not here. Likewise fruit bats - not wild in the UK.