Horse skin problems.back again. :(?
Maddie Bear asked:
My filly’s skin issues are back, but this time I’ve realized that she is rubbing - her mane is sticking straight up in some areas because she’s rubbed a lot of it out.
I ordered a 16 oz. bottle of Micro-Tek medicated spray off the Internet yesterday and I’m confident it’ll help - do you guys think her hair problems will also start to fade out as the weather gets colder and the pests start dying?
Thanks so much.
My filly’s skin issues are back, but this time I’ve realized that she is rubbing - her mane is sticking straight up in some areas because she’s rubbed a lot of it out.
I ordered a 16 oz. bottle of Micro-Tek medicated spray off the Internet yesterday and I’m confident it’ll help - do you guys think her hair problems will also start to fade out as the weather gets colder and the pests start dying?
Thanks so much.
MTG is fabulous for any sort of skin problems such as rain rot, sweet itch, rubbing, etc. It also helps promote hair growth - I swear it could grow hair on a brick.
Massage a rag of MTG on the area of rubbing and it should kill whatever is causing her to rub and promotes the hair to grow back. Apply about 3x a week, not too much, but a decent amount to make the area moist.
It smells like bacon and you need to shake it up so the yellowish contents from the bottom are mixed in with the base and the entire formula looks like watered-down mustard or something. I recommend gloves, or your hands may smell faintly of bacon until you scrub your hands or shower.
It also could be worms - make sure your wormer is being rotated, she is not in a pasture the week after she is wormed (after worming, worms are in the manure if there are any, horse steps on it and manure is ground up, horses graze in pasture, worms re-enter body), and that the wormer is covering what it needs to be covering.
You can also try a slinky over her neck if she rubs and you plan to show.
Good luck! colormedukes
She should be ok, the mane rubbing sounds as though she just has summer itch or a dermatitus issue {dry itchy skin}, which a lot of horses get this time of year, due to being cooler at night {even moist} to being 80 degrees during the day, this can really be irriatating to them. My little {little, because he is only 14.1 hands} QH has the same issue right now, and I put gold bond powder {you should invest in some my horses love this stuff, and no it wont hurt them} on him and keep his mane and tail brushed, cleaned and free of debrees, and he does fine. I even use the goldbond on my dogs dry skin, that stuff does wanders, and its not toxic. You can even try rubbing some baby oil on him if his skin is really dry and kinda flaky. Good luck
They will fade away the colder it gets. good luck quarter_j_bar