Re: RC: RE: Scratches

[Maureen Mathisen <blueoak@snowcrest.net>]

Yes Barb!

My Connemaras and Arab/Connemara crosses have the "feathers" too, and it
helps.  The thing my vet said was that often certain areas(I have a pond
that dries up in the summer, but they love to eat the tender grasses
that grow there as it dries up) will harbor the "germ or bacteria" and
always stay there.  As you have all said, it is usually the
white-stockinged horses (or greys) that get it the worst .  At least in
hot, dry, desert-like northern Calif. it only happens in the wet of
spring or winter.
Maureen

Maureen

Thomas, Barb wrote:
> 
> Are we calling two different things by the same name when talking about
> scratches?  "Scratches" as I've known them for years are a fungal infection
> usually in the fetlock area that crack, weep and are generally gross and
> take a long time to heal.  Now, some folks that do desert multi-days talk
> about getting "scratches" several days into the ride.  Seems to be as a
> result of traveling across the alkali desert soil, mixed with wet legs from
> sweat and cooling them off at vet checks.  It gets all gross, cracked and
> weepy, too but seems to be a chemical "burn" type of scratches which may
> respond well to things like Tammy's ointment.  Is this right??  The answer
> for both is to have a Morgan or draft type horse with lots of "feathers"
> that water and dirt don't penetrate!!  Think we can breed for that?!
> 
> Barb
> 
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