Re: Heat bumps

["Cora" <bandc@teknett.com>]

My Grey has white spots...not dark ones...Cora
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Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 10:24 PM
Subject: RC: Heat bumps


> 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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