>I had a mare develope "bumps" at a ride.
>
>Actually I rode 25 of a 50 and her recoveries were bad, but veternarian
>acceptable (not to me...I know the horse), so I pulled her. The next morning
>she had bumps all over her body..itchy!!! 15 cc Banamine made her more
>comfortable and the bumps went down in a few days, but each bump had a small
>scab on it (literally thousands all over her body!!) When they came off it
>looked like she had chicken pox. I took her on another 50 2 weeks later to a
>whopping third place finish (chicken pox marks and all) and everything was
>fine.
>
>My only guess is that we were camped in a cattle pasture and she ate or
>rolled in something as it never happened again.
>
>Teddy
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The race is not always to the swift, but to those that keep running.
Truman and Mystic "The Horse from HELL" Storm
and Danson "The Demon in Training" Flame
prevatt@lds.loral.com - Sarasota, Florida
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