would sweet-itch put you off buying a horse?

It certainly would put me off buying a horse! I just would'nt buy one with sweet itch. I would buy a crib biter too but not sweet itch. Theres plenty of horses out there without these problems.

I also don't think I would pay £2000 for a 13 year old ploddy cob with sweet itch!
 
i have a friesian mare
i ve had her for over 2 yr and in the two years
ive had her i have no ridden her once due to chronic sweetitch ie mane ,tail, belly , face even with blanets , and creams have never seemed to work well .
at one point i felt like putting her to sleep because how bad it was .
if i was offered a horse with sweetich i would not accept and defently would not buy with it again , but there are people that would .
 
Absolutely, nightmare for the horse no matter how well it is managed and irritating for the owner who has to cope with it all the time. I live in South Africa and there are only about three months in the entire year when there are no midges.
 
there is a few on my yard who have won at puk and show very high level. You would never know they had it if you didint know!

If managed correctly then there is no reason why they could not show. I have a youngster i bought very cheap who had sweet itch, he managed to live out all year with careful management.
 
My daughters first pony - a haflinger - had mild sweetitch when we bought him and it has steadily got worse. He is a very skillful rug wrecker and I have lost count of the wasted money, we really have tried all brands including boetts. He gets very distressed during the summer field walking and agitated when midges are out. He rubs his ventral line badly on the ground and often cannot be ridden due to broken skin on his girth.

Although in every other respect he is a fabulous little chap I would pass over any advert mentioning it after our experience.
 
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