Many autoimmune diseases are treated with anti-inflammatory and corticosteroids medications. Supplements may also be suggested. Your veterinarian will have a consultation with you and discuss what the best treatment plan is for your horse. In most cases, following the treatment plan the horse will make full recovery. Within weeks of the treatment his hair will usually grow back.
It will be necessary to have follow-up visits to monitor his progress. Some diagnostic tests will need to be retaken to ensure a healthy recovery. Horses diagnosed with an autoimmune disease will need to repeat visits to monitor his condition and to check if there are any side effects to the medications. It is recommended, even if your horse appears healthy, he should be seen by a veterinarian once a year for a wellness check.
My mare she is 20 yo who wears a rug all the time lost lots of hair on the side of the shoulders in the last few weeks. For the rest she looks healthy and she is in great form. I have three paint horses, 2 tobanio mother: It's hard to tell with the overo, but the two tobanios have lost most of their hair all over their bodies. I have to use a soft brush to brush them because they are getting sunburned.
All are out on pasture and have been all summer.
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We have had an unusually hot muggy summer, so I was wondering, since all three of them were losing hair if it was because the temperatures have been soaring to over degrees which, being in Canada, none of us are used to. There are no scabs, flakes, and the horses don't seem to be unusually itchy. They were stabled during the day and out at night. Her skin under the bald area has changed to a darker colour.
She is 6yr old TB. Hair grows over in winter and hides areas but they are still there. I have a 24 year old QH mare who is getting patches of baldness on her neck, face, and underbelly. She has never had this before, and this started about 5 - 6 weeks ago.
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She is still eating and drinking as usual. In conjunction with this, I have noted that she seems to be having stiffness in her neck when she bends down to eat. It goes away once she has started grazing. She has a lot of arthritis in her knees so I suspect there is now arthritis in her neck. Could these be related? I'm more concerned about the alopecia. The hair comes out in clumps with scabs attached to the bottom.
There is no change in housekeeping their stalls are kept quite clean , no change in food or supplements. The other horse doesn't appear to have this affliction and they are always together. We've been giving 8 lbs of Equine Senior which has begun to help somewhat with the weight. She eats everything, feed, hay and pasture. But she is now losing her coat around the chest, inside of her back legs and still is lethargic. She moves around, but slowly and stiffly. She's never had anything like this and iv had her 11 years n iv been on the same yard for 9 so I don't no what it is or where it has come from Thank You Very Much Hazel cooper.
Most causes of hair loss in horses present with signs of scabs, flakes or other debris from the disease process like in ringworm, rain scald etc… The severe rubbing or itching may indicate some type of irritation or allergy; has your yard started using different disinfectants or anything else?
Hair Loss (Alopecia) in Horses
Hair Loss Alopecia in Horses Book in. Rated as Serious Condition. Most Common Symptoms Redness Swelling.
Causes Diagnosis Treatment Recovery Advice. Adjacent hair follicles tend to be in different phases of the growth cycle, so that no obvious shedding or bare spots are observed.
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You are used to seeing such cycles, but what happens when suddenly your horse has a completely bare spot? If the area of hair loss is under the mane, it could be for a benign reason encountered by many horses during the summer. Excessive sweating during hot or hot and humid times of the year will occur where heat is trapped under the mane. Sweat is absorbed by the keratin layer of the epidermis, and the hair follicles remain moist for the duration of the hot weather.
That moisture causes the hair follicle to soften and release the hair. Dried sweat and dirt with or without th added pressure of insect bites may result in the sensation of itch. Subsequent rubbing of the area by the horse may rub out patches of hair. Hair loss due to heat and sweat also is commonly observed on the faces of horses, around the eyes and the ears. The sweat and dirt accumulate, spurring the loss of hair, and the horse appears as if he is wearing gray goggles.
Proper management, careful grooming, and weekly washing of the horse with a mild nonirritant shampoo can help prevent hair loss due to the aforementioned reasons. However there still are many horses which might glow with regular care and grooming, but lose areas of hair anyway. Horses with long manes for show purposes, like the Arab mentioned in the question, might fare well with their manes French-braided to avoid having the heat trapped against the neck.
Small individual braids will break the hair, but a French braid directly down the top of the neck that is redone every few days will keep long manes intact. Other, more serious hair loss can stem from dermatophyte infections. If there is crusting associated with hair loss along the leading edge of the bald area , the horse may have a dermatophyte infection ringworm.
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The most widely applied use for horsehair is in the fishing line. The hair is spun together and made into very long lines. One historic use was for gloves commonly used for fishing in the medieval age leading up to the 17th century in cold climates. Most horsehair comes from slaughtered horses.
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There has been some speculation as to the first use of horsehair. Many sources indicate the Spaniards in the 8th century were the first to use horsehair as a textile. The plans, a blueprint for a monastic compound in medieval times, are a national preserved treasure to the Swiss that were said to have been woven with horsehair.
It was commonly used in the 19th century as upholstery stuffing such as for fabric sofas [13] and as covering fabric for furniture. It was almost always the fiber used to make shaving brushes. It was also common in hats and women's undergarments. It was used in the hair to create the " Gibson Girl " look, and in the 18th century it was used in wigs.
Until the 20th century, it was commonly used to make fine arts paintbrushes, along with sable, fox, wolf, goat, and lamb hair. For thousands of years, fishing lines were made of plaited horsehair. In modern times, mane and tail horsehair samples with root tissue attached are commonly used for DNA analysis of equine specimens. Private genetic testing companies regularly use the DNA extracted from the root follicle of horsehair for relationship testing, genetic disease assays and determining coat color genetics.