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Are your horses shedding?

Posted : 3/5/2011 5:08:20 AM

My husband's horse is shedding fairly heavy. Mine is barely shedding at all which is fine with me. Last spring everything bloomed at once, she had a major allergic reaction, and almost went bald. Bald is not a good look on horses. She has a crazy thick winter coat this year so I'm hoping she sheds it out only, not the summer coat with it. ':)'

danastark

Posted : 3/13/2011 8:40:49 PM

Our paint always looks normal in the winter and then he does the fly allergy thing in the summer and rubs himself bald. He has such a thin coat he has no protection.

Our leopard spot pony is practically shooting hair off of him right now! I was just rubbing his face the other day and it was like it was snowing ':)'

Connie

Posted : 3/14/2011 5:40:43 PM

Our paint always looks normal in the winter and then he does the fly allergy thing in the summer and rubs himself bald. He has such a thin coat he has no protection.

Spoke with an equine vet earlier this winter about this problem. He said that "they" are working on a vaccine for it. I assume he meant Cornell University, but am not sure. Hoping to see him as soon as he is back from his winter in Florida so I can ask more

Hopefully, there is hope....or you put a full fly sheet, face/neck hood, and bandages around to keep the little pests off the horse. This same vet has a horse that is dressed this way when it is out in the paddock in the summer. Looks strange, but is seems to work. Keeping the horse in with a fan blowing on him seems to help. Most flies do not seem to like the wind.