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Post by khristyne on Jun 8, 2007 6:35:43 GMT -1
My friend has an unregistered dales that has come out in a dermatitis type rash all over her body in patches. but not on her legs. she has lost hair and it is very itchy. It is not mange and the vet has done all the usual pluckings and scrapes that were neg.
Is there any strange skin complaints prevelent in the dales or has anyone any ideas?
I am wondering if she is allergic to the pigeons, rats or buttercups that grow in abundance in our field.
Poor thing she is so itchy and miserable. none of the others in the field are effected.
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Post by dalesponyrider on Jun 8, 2007 6:40:15 GMT -1
I'll be very interested in the answers to this as one of my clients has a pony who is much the same. It is so itchy that it sits down and drags it's bum around on the floor like a dog with worms and is very unhappy. My client has had all the scapes etc done as well.
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Post by khristyne on Jun 8, 2007 7:17:48 GMT -1
The only time i saw something similar was when a pony was allergic to pigeons. It looked like someone had splattered a paint brush of something over the pony and lefte a tiny pappy rash all over it.
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Post by bellajack on Jun 8, 2007 9:52:43 GMT -1
It sounds like classic Dermatophilis, or rainscald, although you would have thought that would have shown up, but stranger things have happened! It has certainly been the right weather for it, and it can be itchy if some other, secondary, bacterial infection has set in.
If it is, it is caused by a bacterium with fungal like properties, so I would ask to try a course of anti-biotics, try a suitable (for rain scald) shampoo, and keep scrupulously clean and dry in the meantime. That would probably help, even if it is some other rare complaint.
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Post by shell on Jun 8, 2007 10:28:14 GMT -1
My ex's mare is always pulling her hair out and making herself sore. She's been thru every test, shampoo and tried to find any common cause but nothing has been found until! she moved yards and changed worming prog! She was at our previous yard at least 8 yrs on strict 6 wk worming plan now she's at place that worm counts and uses wormers at longer intervals and so far no flare up!
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Post by shell on Jun 8, 2007 10:29:23 GMT -1
My ex's mare is always pulling her hair out and making herself sore. She's been thru every test, shampoo and tried to find any common cause but nothing has been found until! she moved yards and changed worming prog! She was at our previous yard at least 8 yrs on strict 6 wk worming plan now she's at place that worm counts and uses wormers at longer intervals and so far no flare up!
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Post by greydales on Jun 8, 2007 14:10:14 GMT -1
How strange, but I suppose horses are prone to the same kinds of allergies as we are - some of which are extremely hard to diagnose! Is this the first time it's happened?
My lot used to get peeling around the lips from buttercups but that's all.
Dancer also comes out in lumps on his body every summer, which I have not got to the bottom of, except I assume it's something in the summer grazing as it goes away over winter.
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Post by khristyne on Jun 8, 2007 20:52:44 GMT -1
She was told that she had a similar prob before she bought her and the vet is trying to speak to that vet about it. She is being bathed daily in special shampoo and has antibiotics.
so far she doesnt have: mange ringworm or ticks, but that is as far as we have got.
Rain scald is a fungal thing similar to mud fever isnt it. I think this is unlikely as she is always rugged in the rain, her mummy is very particular. hopefully any pluckings will show this up.
Poor Mango, she is so itchy and her coat is terrible.
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Post by The Moo on Jun 11, 2007 9:28:58 GMT -1
Kristyne, often rugging for rain scald doesn't work as well as you think.
The lady where I have Ed had a similar thing last year and rugged up if rain was forecast but what actually happened was that on wet but mild days, usual summer showers type weather, the bugs/fungus? that cause rain scald (or similiar if it wasn't rain scald) had a field day as the clammy damp atmosphere under a steamy horse rug on a muggy day was an ideal breeding ground for it to grow.
The vet advised leaving the horses un rugged, she did and the condition cleared up as the horses skin got wet then dried out and didn't stay damp.
This may be completely different to what your friends horse has but maybe food for thought.
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Post by bevbob on Jun 20, 2007 13:19:00 GMT -1
Bobs had a derma type thing on the backs of his knees, I tried everything possible to get rid of it but nothing worked then I saw an article in a magazine for the same thing and it advised using 'graphites' homeopathy, this was for non weeping crusts. After 2 to 3 weeks they had gone!
Just wondering whether it might work for your friends horse or some sort of homeopathy medicine?
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