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 Barb Peck wrote: If you live in the northern states- there might be one 
problem-
 you do have to watch out for the "Northern Fowl Mite" which will live in 
the skin of a horse mane, create intense itching and cause them to lose 
mane hair

Barb - can you talk more about this?  Every spring one of  my horses gets 
an awful 'skin thing"  - he gets itchy, scabby lesions and then he loses 
his mane.  This year it spread down his neck, on to his back - all the way 
to the tail.  Wierd.     I found a product, M-T-G, from Shapleys that was 
very helpful but I still ended up having to get him a Prednisone 
injection.  He is the only one out of 7 horses to get it.  We are not in 
the north though - we are in SW Oklahoma.
I also have a springer spaniel who suffers from some kind of something - 
maybe an allergy-  but she scratches all the time.  She has to get 
Prednisone too.  Vet has no clue what it is.  Started after she was 
"assaulted" by a neighborhood sc-hound-rel and got brucellosis.  Dont know 
if thats a link. But do you know if this mite thing affects dogs?
Thanks for any info
DianeD



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