Hi! If this is located on the point of the
hip bone it is a ground sore. I had a 30 horse boarding facility and our
ground was so dry that some of the new horses laying down & getting up would
get hock & pt of the hip bone rub spots. Some of them toughen up &
some of them we had to put 'sand' or shavings in their down spot. Some
people resorted to shipping boots for those that also got ankle rubs.
We had wonderful raised corrals (corral area
raised 1' above surounding area) that drained (no mud) all winter but the
dg (decomposed granite) was hard on some horses.
If it's not located on the pt of the hip then
disregard this but I'd be 90% convinced that's what it is
otherwise.
LOL!! This horse is so rolly polly, he puts new
meaning to the word big barrelled. That's not the problem. Today my daughter
sent me a new picture of it and all the black is now pink. I'm thinking she
put some Corona balm on it and it sluffed off. It's pretty ugly pink
colored.
Hi, Cannot
tell, but I had a horse once who had something similar, and it was from him
rolling. He literally rubbed the hide off his hip bones. Put more meat
on him and he was
fine.
Hope
it is something that
trivial. Charlene
At
07:42 AM 9/8/2003 -0700, you wrote:
Good
morning!
Was hoping someone at
RideCamp might recognize a weird skin patch that showed up on my
daughter's horse. She just recently moved to Fresno and emailed me a
picture yesterday. She hadn't been to see the horse in several days and
it's king of ugly. Doesn't look like a kick or bite (he's in with one
other horse). It's about 2 inches in diameter, right at the top of the hip
bone. I need to know whether we need to call a vet. We haven't found one
for her yet since she just got there a month ago.
