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Re: RC: RE: Scratches



Let me guess, their skin looks black and flakes off in chunks right? Like dandruff? God, I hate that stuff!! My horse gets this every time we do a ride no matter what I do. It was really bad after Death Valley though because I was sick and didn't take care of him as well as I should have. Usually if he gets washed to the Nth degree it's not as bad.

Jennifer Kurtzhall

  Kathy Mayeda <kathy_mayeda@atce.com> wrote:

<Personally I think there's more than one type. Fungus is so weird.>>

Yeah, my guy spent the last winter in a paddock and always had
mud up to his fetlocks without scratches. This winter I decided
to turn him out into pasture in San Jose. Up until this week
it had been pretty dry. He had scratches Xmas week. I clipped him, washed
it off carefully and the scratches went away without any ointments.
He has heavy feathers with white legs and pink hooves, the proverbial
scratches disaster. With this guy, clipping seems to work better
because his coarse fur tends to hold a lot of dirt.

Not a multi-day comment of course, but there seems to be a lot
more cases of scratches at my current location than where I was
boarding last year, even with a less muddy situation/drier weather
conditions. A couple of horses here were even having some wierd skin
condition at the girth area, too, after doing the Death Valley
Encounter. - oops that's a multi-day "second hand" comment.

K.




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