Bare bum

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Virginia Campbell — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 00:06:19 GMT

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Virginia Campbell — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 00:04:28 GMT

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Virginia Campbell — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 00:02:33 GMT

Update: horse vet they got out to see the mare thought fungal so they have been bathing with Imaverol about 3 times/week followed by the Camrosa which the O had aleady been using and which she thought soothed it a bit. Looks well improved to me when we were visiting at the weekend and hair regrowing. Salient bit of history that I didn't know before: some time after coming off the mountain the mare was sent to the yard of a chap who is fab at mouthing and backing youngsters (I thought O had done it all herself) but poss not so hot at biosecurity....O heard on the grapevine that a lot of horses leave that yard kindly started and longreining beautifully...but with "some sort of skin fungal thing". Maybe she needed to give him a big container of Virkon as a tip along with payment ;-)

She hadn't initially made the connection as it was a couple of weeks before the mare started showing signs, probably as the fungus attacked enough follicles. Just goes to show the importance of asking where the beast has been!

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Virginia Campbell — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 20:24:06 GMT

Thanks all for your thoughts. Have advised daily bathing of dock, anus, perineum to reduce egg load in case is pinworm, pending proper horse vet visit. (though realise will make proper horse vet's job harder re diagnosis with acetate tape strip)

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Wren — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 08:47:40 GMT

I be looking at pinworm as first guess. Although I have seen similar lesions elsewhere on the body, been unable to diagnose them despite biopsies etc, and they've apparently cleared up spontaneously (often at the change of season when summer coat comes through and rugs come off). Must admit I'd expect to see the tail rubbed too with pinworm, but it would be my first rule-out. The easy ones treat easily, the tricky ones are an absolute nightmare and involve multiple ivermectin washes.

The other thing to check is that the rug is long enough. Some of the modern rugs have tail-flaps which are attached quite far down (to prevent them inverting and blowing over the horse's bum in the wind) and if the rug is a bit short you'd get a fair bit of rubbing in that area.

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Joyce Whitehead — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 20:48:51 GMT

Horse vet in this house says rain scald or pinworm most likely so get some samples sorted and that might help to rule in or out. Good luck!

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Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 20:38:01 GMT

For what it's worth, I remember a ringworm case that looked much the same, but on the head.

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Anthony Todd — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 18:21:46 GMT

Hold your breath, some horse vet on here will recognise it immediately....

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Virginia Campbell — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 17:32:40 GMT

No. I'm on holidays visiting these friends 150 miles from the practice microscope! O will probably get a proper horse vet to look at the mare anyway. I did wonder about pinworm. Would avermectins work or do you need bemzamidazoles or something else?

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Emily Rainbow — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 17:27:06 GMT

Have you done perineal tape strips for pinworm?

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Virginia Campbell — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 17:16:40 GMT

Dampness round edge of lesions is Camrosa ointment...lesion itself is quite dry. O has also tried Hibiscrub though has only had two washes in 4 days.

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Virginia Campbell — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 17:14:32 GMT

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Virginia Campbell — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 17:05:49 GMT

Usual struggle with mobile phone technology in one hand and a fractious baby in the other sorry. This is a 3yo mare bought off the side of a mountain a few months ago by a friend. Now BCS good and rest of coat starting to shine, but baldy bum started appearing over Christmas and progressively worse past week. Mare does nibble at her flanks now and then but not terribly pruritic...and I would have thought that to baldify herself this much under a NZ rug she would have had to be practically sitting on fences and scrubbing her tail off too, which she is not. Kept with an older mare who has no skin signs. Been wormed twice with I think an avermectin. Been thoroughly doused with louse powder even though no lice were seen.

Doesn't look as scabby as I would expect a rain scaldy lesion to be and anyway rug has big tail flap. Fungal ie ringworm maybe?