ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: dryland distemper

Re: dryland distemper

Don and Jennifer (dandj@thevision.net)
Tue, 21 Oct 1997 22:11:05 -0700 (PDT)

>I put the
>affected horse in a stall, and then clean the stall with disinfectant
>afterwards as a precaution.
>
>
>-- Lynn K. (Santa Ynez, CA)
> http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky
Unfortunately this doesn't always work. Once it's in the ground it's
dormant period is quite a long time. The vet's analogy was that horses can
be out of a pasture for ten years and put horses back in and they can pick
it immediatly. When we moved our horses to a new pasture that hadn't had a
horse on it for 5 years kmy mom's mare got it. No antibiotics were given
but not only did we fly spray a lot we also gave her a bath a couple of
times a day and that seemed to help. The strange thing was that none of the
other horses ended up with it. We weren't sure if it was in the pasture or
if the the fact that needle that the cow vet used, the Westside of the
Central Valley didn't have any horse vets at the time, to vaccinate 7 horses
was the same needle. Good luck.
J.C., Don, and the Gang

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