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sam13
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 Posted - 29 Sep 2014 : 12:07:54 PM
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My part bred gelding has come in with the start of rainscald. Usually, I would just treat with camrosa or pig oil and it clears up really quickly (on my purebred who gets it alot). This is the first time Kia has had it, and the shear amount of it is really concerning me. Its from his shoulders all the way down to his dock, and down his hind quarters. I know its going to be a vet job, but has anyone deal with rain scald on a large scale before?
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glo
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Posted - 29 Sep 2014 : 1:09:08 PM
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Have you had a rug on him! If he has got hot or you have ridden him and not washed the sweat off could be that, can't be rain scald as we have had not much rain. More like a bacteria infection from not being cleaned and dried after riding. A rug can make this worse.
Scrub with Hibescrub, don't rug till it's all cleared up, don't ride as well!
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Libby Frost
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Posted - 29 Sep 2014 : 5:11:39 PM
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| wash with hibi scrub that should clear it up :) |
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garnet
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Posted - 29 Sep 2014 : 5:38:28 PM
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| Agree with Glo as some horses react worse to being too hot and sweaty than being too cold - my Red is one of them. If you haven't been rugging then hibiscrub/aloe vera gel or deet oil (think that's right name but if not I'm sure someone will know) which someone on our yard has used with great success on a new horse which arrived with bad rainscald. |
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Ari
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Posted - 29 Sep 2014 : 6:08:48 PM
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| It sounds like a bacterial or fungal infection that has taken hold due to a skin reaction, either way Hibiscrub is a good start to getting it sorted. I once had similar with my old mare who became very itchy with scabs leaving bald patches, vet took skin scrapes and all negative so I never knew what it was. She had steroid injection and Hibiscrub wash. |
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ali bali
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Posted - 29 Sep 2014 : 8:24:54 PM
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| I've had fantastic results on two horses with very bad rainscald using Malaseb shampoo. It a vet POM though. |
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pinkvboots
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 29 Sep 2014 : 8:52:09 PM
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| I would also use malaseb shampoo, hibiscrub is too harsh and can make the skin even worse if your trying to treat a skin condition, I would only shampoo it once then use Daktarin athletes foot spray twice a day, it has an ingredient in it to kill the bacteria that causes it, its the perfect weather for fungal skin conditions as its damp and warm, thing is if most of his body is affected it will be painful so you may need a vet to treat it, horses can pass it to one another too and the bacteria can live on rugs and brushes its a real pain to get rid of it, Arabi got it a few years back as a new horse came onto the yard with it and a few of them ended up with it. |
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sab2
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Posted - 29 Sep 2014 : 9:23:13 PM
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| I agree Hibiscrub is very harsh on the skin, my mare had a skin rash on her side , my vet advised hibiscrub washing twice a day which made no difference and it got worse over the next few weeks. A friend of mine who is also a vet advised Malaseb shampoo and within 24 hrs you could see a difference. |
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Callisto
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Posted - 29 Sep 2014 : 10:15:29 PM
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| When our gelding developed a patch of rain scald on his rump, our vet told us to keep it clean - we tacked clean bits of t-shirt to his rug liner which could be removed easily and replaced (this was during a very wet period where he had to be rugged, since he can't cope with rain), (if it is as widely spread as you describe, perhaps use a cotton sheet type rug which can be boil washed to sterilise it, if he needs to wear a rug) and used Canestan on it - basically treated it as you would athletes foot - keep it clean, dry, and use an anti-fungicide. Also make sure you don't spread it around by using rugs/brushes etc. on an infected horse and then another. Make sure any rug the horse is wearing is waterproof, and don't leave it on when it is too warm so that the horse sweats underneath, as stated above, it loves warm moist conditions. |
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flosskins
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Posted - 04 Oct 2014 : 11:16:44 AM
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| My girl has rainscald scars all down her shoulder from before I got her and the hair has never grown back! What have people used to get the hair to grow back? |
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Ari
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Posted - 04 Oct 2014 : 5:16:40 PM
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That's a hard one as I have never known rain scald to do enough damage to prevent hair regrowth once the skin has healed. I have used DermaGel (vets advice) on injuries that are healed past risk of infection. I am sure it has minimised bald scars as it provides a good environment for nature to do its best.
If your lady's scars are recent maybe her winter coat will grow through. |
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sam13
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Posted - 09 Oct 2014 : 12:53:30 PM
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| Hi everyone! Thanks for your replies. I actually forgot I posted on here!! Bad Sam!! It turns out that he has had a reaction to a shine spray that I had used on him on the Saturday. We had the stallion photographed, and we used the opportunity to have all of the horses photographed. All were brought in, cleaned and shined up. Only the stallion was bathed, but we had heavy rain showers both nights. So it started coming up just as rainscald does, hence my post, but after I washed and dried him, his skin blistered and then I relised the mitt prints on him. As he doesn't like spray, I sprayed the mitt and applied it that way. It has cleared up much better than we thought it would, and he hasn't lost too much skin. Vet suggested that I done a small 'test' area to see if it was that, and sure enough it was. No more shine spray him :) |
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pinkvboots
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Posted - 09 Oct 2014 : 5:42:47 PM
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| Sounds like Arabi his allergic to most fly sprays the coat shine has always been ok though I mainly use carr day and martin dream coat and its never given him a rash. |
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rosie
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Posted - 09 Oct 2014 : 6:02:42 PM
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Please be careful if using hibiscrub - my stallion had a terrible reaction to it this year - and yes I diluted it well
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zelus
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Posted - 11 Oct 2014 : 06:43:40 AM
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| I had a lot of success with anit-bacterial mouth wash, 50/50 with water put in a spray bottle clean effected area with mild soap then spray stuff on leave and repeat daily ill scabs fall off coats came back love and no reaction. |
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