RE: RC: Heat bumps

[Linda Flemmer <bluewolfranch@yahoo.com>]

That's so interesting to hear.  My gray came to me
from a woman who had a saddle that REALLLY didn't fit.
 He had fist sized white patches of skin on each side
of his withers and white patches where her dirty,
cracked leather girth rubbed him raw.  He's never
developed any dark hairs there...

Were your grays flea bit?  I wonder if that made a
difference?  Rocket is a snowy white gray.

Linda Flemmer
Blue Wolf Ranch
Bruceton Mills, WV

--- DESERTRYDR1@aol.com wrote:
> Linda Flemmer said "Gray horses will not show
> the white hair, but they will often have white skin
> in
> the damaged spot where their skin would normally be
> black."
> 
> It's true they don't show white hairs, which
> wouldn't show up anyway, but all 
> of the greys I have seen that have a scar or
> pressure damage due to poor 
> fitting tack have DARK hair over that spot.  I have
> two greys that have 
> these, and know of at least two or three others.  It
> has something to do with 
> the way the pigment develops with the greying gene,
> and the color changes 
> that occur with each shedding cycle.  jeri


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