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  • From: Karen Nesbitt <spanishequines@yahoo.com>
  • To: MSAR <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [MSAR] Dry Coat in Horses and other miladys.
  • Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 10:50:49 -0700 (PDT)

I had a horse that once had a hair problem too. She was a buckskin mare that I had boarded at my brothers. He took care of her feeding and turnout for me.

Well, one day I get out to the barn and man she is looking like a shed ball just ready to loose the coat so I get to brushing her. After I finished ALL, and I mean ALL of her hair was on the ground and I was literally shin deep in a pile of shedded hair standing there looking at a toatlly bald to the skin horse, with not a hair to be had on her body but just her legs. Now mind you, all I did was brush her!
I was in a panic.
 
Fortuneately for me back then we were only a couple of doors away from the vet so I walked her down there and he looked at her and they took a hair sample. Few days later, they could not find ANYTHING wrong with her when the results came back.

I could not turn her out, nor could I ride her, all I could do was longe her and wait for the hair to come back.
Well it turned out, mystery was solved after having a discussion with my brother and back again with the vet. Unbeknownest to me, she let herself out of her stall and got into the feed stall and took in several lbs of a Farnum vitaplus supplement I was feeding. Now mind you, a horse was only supposed to get a huge tablespoon of this stuff daily and fed properly with a balanced diet of good hay. She had consumed almost all of the container the stuff came in and literally overdosed on vitamins.
The vet diagnosed that the only way the excess vitamins in her system had to get expelled was either through her manure or that was what casued the hair to fall out because she had no mites, worms or any other detectable miladys!

It was about that time I stopped feeding all my horses any supplements, or any pelleted feeds too, because after a tour of the clinic, he also showed me the gall stones they removed from a few of their equine patients and told us that the cause of the colics was because of the literal "gunk" that the manufacturers use to make the pellets stick together. It gets in the horses intestines and gums up the lining of the guts.
 
Grain particles then adhere to the walls of the intestines much like what happens when a person gets diverticulitis, but only the grain makes like a pearl and grows causing 99% of the equine blockages they saw happening in horses that required any surgeries after a major colic.

Since then, we have fed only high quality grass mix hays, staying away from alfalfa as that causes diareaha in the horses and have not in 30 years had any cases of colic and our coats are beautiful.
We have 50% elder horses with my oldest now 28 and her coat as are the rest is gorgeous!
 
Just thought to pass this on!
 
Seems it's the season now for our pets, equines and perrson to suffer the heat, allergys and what have you!
 
Great suggestions on the dogs guys.  She is doing much better today.  Seems the minerl oil on the belly hairs helped curb her there and now she is only scratcing periodically.  We did change her diet to a chicken and rice though.
And perhaps yes the flea/tickl bath did help, but the shampoo we used left something to be desired in the dryness of the coat.
 
Thankfully, here It appears to be less of an allergy, and rather just irritation from dryness.
 
Just curious, has anyone on this site had to treat for a snakebite?  Be it animal or person??
 
Respectfully,
K. Nesbitt
Iroquois County
VMSAR
Illinois
   
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  • [MSAR] Dry Coat in Horses and other miladys., Karen Nesbitt, 06/04/2008

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