Thanks very much for your response, Naomi.
I’ve seen scratches, and it doesn’t seem like scratches, though.
The very good photos on your website show, very clearly, the scratches on the
rear of your horse Malabar’s pastern above the bulb of the foot. My
horse has nary a scratch at this location… all is perfectly clean.
The problem is on the front of the pastern and there are, literally, small hard
scabs here. The skin around the area was even slightly sore and inflamed
yesterday. And he also has a small, scabby sort of spot on his left croup,
as well as a bit of the hairless, scabby thing going on at the frontal portions
of his rear cannon bones. Nothing is as bad as the fronts of his
pasterns, however. It could be some type of allergic reaction to certain
plants, it could be a fungus-type infection, or maybe it is some sort of weird
variation of scratches. I might try the Q-Shot stuff just because I’m
desperate, though.
Anybody else have a horse who’s had
something like this?
