This thread as got me reading as you guys may remember I have a more that is allergic to A LOT of things. She's allergic to corn, alfalfa, wheat, oats, wool, molasses, flies and mesquitos
Last March I started her on allergy shots (remember the thread on whether giving shots was against AERC violation). Some of you suggested I give her time off stress free while getting the shots, and I have. The treatment has been expensive. In addition I also started her on flax back then and am using Fly predetors in addition to keeping fly stuff on her. She is also fly sheeted 24/7. The results 5 months later?
She is exactly the same as if I had been doing nothing. Still has a couple bare patches on her chest and backs of her ears, and face.
So....I give up really. I'll still continue the shots, and avoid the foods I know she is allergic to (try feeding an endurance horse with so many allergies) but I'm not going to give up on her as my primary horse. She is NOT in danger of anaphylactic shock should she take a bite of alfalfa as some of you had suggested. She is going to a ride in a month and I'll have to listen to the vets say she has allergies again. It is embarrassing to have a moth eaten horse 6 months out of the year but really I don't know what else to do.
