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Hello,

If this goopy stuff is yellowish and sticky before it dries your 
horse has tick bites. Ivermectin every 4 weeks will help. Fly spray 
will help. Hosing with lots of pressure (a nozzle) will blast off the 
ones that have not attached. Ticks do not like water. I use my 
fingers and smash up the sticky stuff and it crumbles and I pull it 
out leaving the hair. The entire tail bone and mane at the roots is 
probably full of the clumps. Once you spend the time to clean 
everything up and rub fly spray into the roots to kill all the ticks 
(very hard to see them sometimes) then daily grooming and a small 
spritz of fly spray will keep the horse mostly tick free. Ticks 
cannot bite you like a spider or ant so do not be afraid to pick them 
off and mash them with something hard like between a pebble and the 
concrete wash rack. Do not just throw them, they will crawl up onto 
the next animal or you. Stepping on them rarely works either, they 
are too tough.

Don Huston


At 07:00 PM 9/2/2009 Wednesday, you wrote:
> Hay there, fellow ridecampers -
>
> My horse is out in a beautiful, big pasture outside the lovely city of
> Chattanooga, Tennessee all the time.  Lots of shade trees at one end, and
> other green things as well.  Lately, he's been getting this dried, goopy
> stuff on his legs and on his face - looks like some type of plant sap.  I
> suspect it probably is.  He's starting to get these terrible crusty, scabby
> thingies on his front pasterns (the white one with the pink skin,
> especially), and his skin is very sensitive when I touch the area.  Some of
> the hair is also coming off his face where the sap came into contact
> (although there are no scabs on his face), and it's coming off on a bit of
> his croup as well (where there are a few scabs).  I'm terribly susceptible
> to poison ivy, so I suspect my horse might have some similar equine version.
> His skin has definitely been irritated from something.  I've shampooed him
> with MicroTek shampoo, which is supposed to control that kind of stuff, and
> I've also thoroughly sprayed him with MicroTek spray.  Doesn't seem to
> help... but that's probably because he's still out in the pasture where he's
> coming into contact with whatever it is that's causing the irritation.
> Unfortunately, I have nowhere else to put him.  Tonight, after I bathed him
> and shampooed him with MicroTek, I put this aloe gel stuff on him that's
> supposed to prevent contact of irritants.  Don't know if that will help, but
> at least it was something else to try.  Have any of you successfully treated
> this creeping crud before?  Are there any products out there that any of you
> can recommend?  Help!!
>
>
>
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