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Re: [RC] scratches - Jennifer Layman

When I was in California my chestnut got scratches on his two chestnut legs (rarely his white).  When I moved him to Utah to 7k feet elevation he only got it on his white socks. My other horses also only gets scratches on her white socks. 
 
Leads me to believe that sun plays a real factor here in Utah and there is very little moisture.  The sunscreen/zinc oxide comes out in the spring when there is still snow and tons of sun.  If I am not on it those pink heals get fried then become scratches.
 
Also the scratches I get here seem more induced by chapped, dry skin that gets extra irritated by sweat and harsh soil, or harsh soil and sweat create the dry chapped skin.  In other words, depeneding on where you live and the cause changes so how you treat changes.  Perhaps there is a real difference between scratches and mud fever??
 
Jennifer

RDCARRIE@xxxxxxx wrote:
In a message dated 5/27/2004 12:00:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time, greymare56@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> A friend has been fighting scratches on the white sock of a very nice Arab
> gelding. It seems
> to be cropping up also when he is stressed, and also possibly in the
> fall.....
>
> So leads to the question: why the heck are breeders still
> breeding for this
> darn "chrome?"

I've never heard of scratches being linked to chrome. Nor have we seen that link. We have 3 geldings, each with white on two feet, and a pinto Paso mare with 4 white legs. None of these horses have ever had scratches. Our only horse to ever get it has been my liver chestnut Arab mare, who has no white on her legs, and she got it only in response to muddy conditions during an extended rainy period. The problems your friend's horse is having almost sound more like some sort of photosensitivity.

Dawn in East Texas
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