We’ve got a horse that has looked like she had lots of
fly bites on her – little round bumps, mostly on her butt and neck.Today it’s much worse – some of
the bumps are palm sized and all over both sides of her neck and butt. They are soft/fluid filled and don’t
seem to be itchy.The vet book we read
said likely hives from an allergic reaction to pollen or something and really
no point in doing anything.
The horse did have a tough day yesterday.She had an injury earlier this year and is
just getting back into work.We had to
trailer her out of the mountains to find a good level area to ride and it was
really hot and humid since it rained the day before. Then the trailer ride was not fun, got stuck
in construction traffic where it took 40 minutes to go 3 miles.So a 1 hour drive turned into 2 with lots of
sitting in temps around the mid 80’s.
Then into our subdivision I got stuck behind the water truck
(having already passed the road grader – our roads are a disaster with
all the rain we’ve had) and couldn’t make it up a hill w/o going
into 4 low – after trying once in 4 high and then a failed jerk when I
ended up in neutral on the way to 4 low.So the horses got jerked big a couple times and they scrambled enough to
shift the floor mats. They weren’t
happy when I got them out of the trailer, but no damage to legs or
anything.Later this horse was slightly
colicky – laying down, elevated respiration, body heat, no gut
sounds.I gave her banamine
and within 20 minutes her respiration was normal, body temp was normal and gut
sounds were returning and she passed gas. Pooped about an hour later and was very perky.
Any chance the stress, heat, colic,banamine is related to the hives? Anyone know of anything that can be done about
an allergic reaction like this?We just
moved here last year and one of the other horses had hives last year but not
this year.The horse in question just
came here over the winter so this is new to her.
And for reference, we live at 8800’, west of Colorado
Springs in pines, aspen, good grass, but
lots of native weeds.
