Deno is also very white with pink skin...has never
had scratches...Chihouli, on the other hand, ia a dark grey with 4 white
socks...got a severe case of it last year on all 4 legs..both eat no clover or
alfalfa...had pasture grass last year, and too much rain and mud, other than
that, with real careful management, you should be able to keep them from getting
it...Cora
So leads
to the question: why the heck are breeders still breeding for this
darn
"chrome?"
....I'm curious as to whether it
is the chrome (white) hair, or the pigment of the skin
underneath?
Since I like doing multidays so much I would not choose a
horse that had a lot of 'chrome' as you call it, because all too often those
horses are the ones that get scratches the worst during multidays. I've
even seen a lot of those horses develop scratches in just one day.
On
the other hand, I think that scratches is mostly a management issue. I
have one horse out of three that has two white legs (even tho he is now white
all over) that have pink pigment underneath and he no longer gets
scratches. I find that it is easy to avoid them by simply not feeding
alfalfa or clover. Pretty simple, really. My other grey horse (who
will probably turn white someday too) has dark skin underneath. So maybe
it isn't the hair coat color, but the skin underneath that is really the
problem?
