https://www.vetsurgeon.org/f/clinical-questions/15111/equine-dermatology-help-pictures Any skin bods who&#39;d like to give an opinion on some photos please? Hx - 20-30yr old cob mare, been kept tethered on a football pitch. Pretty poor general condition (thin, poor hoof quality etc.) BUT has a very big healthy 5wk old foal at foot whoen-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/87532?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 01 May 2013 14:02:53 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:fd21f89a-c3e5-4329-9cf5-37a1254f2860bob lehner<p>Well I&#39;m no equine derm specialist but I would definitely be&nbsp; thinking&nbsp; most likely bacterial - staph +/- dermatophilus -&nbsp; maybe an&nbsp; added problem of lice in a thick winter coat with associated pruritus/self trauma &nbsp; (although, on second thoughts, tied up on&nbsp; a football pitch she may not have been able to rub her backside on anything ?) - plus general debilty/poor condition. &nbsp; </p> <p>I think you need to lift scabs wherever possible - expose to fresh air , plus all the antibacterial meds you are using.&nbsp;&nbsp; Would it be a heresy to suggest some ab/steroid creme such as Fuciderm to relieve the obvious inflammation&nbsp; ?</p> <p>There&#39;s a nice article in this April&#39;s &#39;In Practice&#39; by Sue Paterson - &#39;A practical approach to equine dermatolgy&#39; - with lots of pics and tables of diff diagnoses for alopecia/scaling/crusting etc etc.</p> <p>Be interesting to know what the lab says.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/87530?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 01 May 2013 13:57:04 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:53f6792c-ea54-4388-a4f0-cf649de9be9aMark Rowland<p>Having qualified from Liverpool we saw lots of sarcoids cases and several were not too dissimilar from this. Saw one or two like this in my time in equine practice also. The mixed malevolent type with secondary infection. Just a thought anyway. Poor horse. :-(</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>