Anybody wanna play vet?

Ok here s one of those helpful questions I mentioned in my last question asked:) Told yall I was going to be asking a lot.





Last april (2007) a friend of mine had her buckskin qh gelding suddenly come up with a very weird skin condition. Buck started losing all his hair at first just around the withers then it progressed down his back and belly, soon the poor guy was almost bald all over except for head , mane and tail. We treated it as deer fungus , rain rot..etc but none of the medicatison for that helped. Had a vet come out and he recomeneded mixing bleach with water and sprayign Buck down. Buck did not have the crusty scabby like spots usually associated with rain rot or deer fungus , he was not running a temp or allergic to anything. So what was wrong with him? took us calling a bunch of vets to find out what was wrong. Put down what you think it was, closest to correct answer gets the points:)

Anybody wanna play vet?
That's a good one, to be honest I've never heard of this before, I would guess it might have to do with wrong nutrition, maybe the horse got exposed to a chemical substance in the ground taken in by the horse while grazing or so...


maybe the answer helps me too, I've had a similar problem 20 years ago myself, my hair started to fall out first on the top of my head as a little spot and now I'm bald, but luckily it stopped with the hair on my head...LOL
Reply:OOOPS Report It

Reply:Oh man, I read about this a few months ago. Dang...... Its rare right? I'm coming back to this
Reply:Does the horse have Poco Bueno breeding? I would wonder if the condition was the HERDA condition that has emerged in horses with too much Poco Bueno blood? Not the full on skin sluffing, but a mild case? You have piqued my interest about what it was....can't wait to hear.
Reply:Seasonal Alopecia
Reply:Mange? (Just a guess--I'm no vet!)
Reply:Mange?


I knew a lady that had a gelding. in early spring, he started to lose his hair. He didn't go completely bald, but he lost most of his hair on his sides and rump. It turned out to be mange.
Reply:Most people would say mange. I think its mange and scauld together.
Reply:My first though was mange or something similar. That can cause significant hair loss, but is easily recognized most of the time. Perhaps the other horses were pulling it out or he was rubbing a lot? My friend has a little QH pony colt and last year the same thing happened to him. When shedding season came he basically went bald, and then it all grew back on it's own (and not bald in the shedding sense, bald in the no hair sense). So perhaps it was just an irregularity in shedding patterns.
Reply:Cushings, Mange or Seasonal Alopecia but thats associated with allergies.
Reply:Ringworm?





I had a bout with that a few years ago. Everyone got the little round bald spots except for my recovered septic foal, who was about 2 at the time.





He looked like an Egyptian Mau horse. We had fits getting rid of it.
Reply:I have no ideal what it is, however I had a filly last spring start losing mane like you describe. I washed mane with iodine shampoo several times and It did clear up
Reply:I don't know about Buck, but one of my mares shed ALL of her hair at one time this year. It was weird having a bald horse. The only thing any one could figure was the strange weather we kept having. She was perfectly fine otherwise though.
Reply:Right after I bought my dun gelding I wormed him. He started losing his hair in large patches just like you described. It turns out that he was very wormy and according to the vet had an allergic reaction to all the dead worms in his system. I wormed him again and bathed him in antifungal soap just to be safe. His skin condition cleared right up and new hair growth started almost immediately. Could that be the answer?
Reply:alopecia areata?
Reply:take this horse to a emergency vet IMMEDIATLY!!!!!!!!!!

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