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Location: Oregon | I tried taking the best pictures possible but it was dark outside so im sorry if they arent the best. My moms horse broke out it a bunch of oozing swollen spots all over him. Any one ever dealt with this or have any idea what may have caused this? At first I thought bug bites but all over like that? Idk any help would be appreciated. He is older then 25. So im worried about him. |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | how big are the sores, are they scabby, are they all over his body or just along his back ............
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Location: Oregon | Well certain ones are about as big as a bug bite. But whats funny is I cant find like a bite or a point of origin for them to be oozing out of .. I wish I could getbthe pictures to load! |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | whats oozing out is it clear or yellow, are some of them dried up almost like having tree sap on them......yellow and granual close to the sores
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Location: Oregon | Actually ya its yellow looking the ones on his face was all dried mostly and kinda looked like sap. |
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Location: Anywhere my horses are ! Lost in Texas!!!!! | They are bug bites |
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Location: Oregon | Isnt it just kinda weird for only him to have gotten attacked by bugs? I mean im used to bug bites and I used to own a mare who was allergic to them and she never had it to this extent. |
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Location: Anywhere my horses are ! Lost in Texas!!!!! | he could have walked through when they were swarming. It has happened to Tequila. They will be gone in a couple of days. Do the bites bother your horse. The bugs are sort of like no-see ums. |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | we have a few get this every fall(and only in the fall), its definatly not bugs............almost looks like rain rot but all over the body and small bumps......i think its a mineral deficency....and e seems to be the missing culpert.....this is strictly my opinion so if you are really worried about your guy take him to the vet......
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Location: Oregon | He was in his stall all day and night. And yes they are majorly sore and bothering him alot. Should I give him some benedryl? |
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Location: Anywhere my horses are ! Lost in Texas!!!!! | I would take him to the vet |
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Location: Oregon | Hmm the mineral deficiency would be interesting. I hadnt thought of that. I will be having the vet out today or tomorrow. |
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Location: Anywhere my horses are ! Lost in Texas!!!!! | Do not give him anything so the vet can see what is wrong first. Let us know what the vet thinks. Hope your horse feels better. |
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Location: God's country...aka TEXAS | Give him some dex. This happens to my horse sometimes, he just has an allergic reaction to them. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Sounds like to me he layed/rolled in a fire ant bed, and those little bogger's hurt and make you itchy in all the spot's that they bite.. |
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Location: on my horse | Hives is my guess but I would be getting him to a vet. Poor guy sounds miserable. I had an old guy that would get those oozy "bursting" hives ranging from tiny to half dollar sized. Don't give Dex if he has a fever, steroid can make some things worse if he's having some kind of response or sickness and has spiked a fever. |
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| Southtxponygirl - 2014-11-05 4:44 PM
Sounds like to me he layed/rolled in a fire ant bed, and those little bogger's hurt and make you itchy in all the spot's that they bite..
My guess would be they do not have Fireants in Oregon |
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Location: Texas | Southtxponygirl - 2014-11-05 4:44 PM
Sounds like to me he layed/rolled in a fire ant bed, and those little bogger's hurt and make you itchy in all the spot's that they bite..
I say ants as well... they may be in the stall.
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Location: Buffalo, Wyoming | I have a mare that has gotten them the last 2 years. They don't bother her and are usually gone in a few weeks. I messaged my vet last year about them, let me see if I can find his message back. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | streakysox - 2014-11-05 10:19 PM Southtxponygirl - 2014-11-05 4:44 PM Sounds like to me he layed/rolled in a fire ant bed, and those little bogger's hurt and make you itchy in all the spot's that they bite.. My guess would be they do not have Fireants in Oregon
Oh just a thought, I thought them little monsters were every where, but still sounds like it could be ants, when mine would get into fire ants this is what happen to them also the little raise bumps that would oozz sappy stuff. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | mruggles - 2014-11-06 10:48 AM i know we dont have fire ants up here......lol
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | Southtxponygirl - 2014-11-07 9:53 AM mruggles - 2014-11-06 10:48 AM i know we dont have fire ants up here......lol
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | mruggles - 2014-11-06 12:00 PM Southtxponygirl - 2014-11-07 9:53 AM mruggles - 2014-11-06 10:48 AM i know we dont have fire ants up here......lol
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | Southtxponygirl - 2014-11-07 11:33 AM mruggles - 2014-11-06 12:00 PM Southtxponygirl - 2014-11-07 9:53 AM mruggles - 2014-11-06 10:48 AM i know we dont have fire ants up here......lol
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | mruggles - 2014-11-06 12:44 PM Southtxponygirl - 2014-11-07 11:33 AM mruggles - 2014-11-06 12:00 PM Southtxponygirl - 2014-11-07 9:53 AM mruggles - 2014-11-06 10:48 AM i know we dont have fire ants up here......lol
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | stnyb - 2014-11-07 11:54 AM mruggles - 2014-11-05 3:22 PM we have a few get this every fall(and only in the fall), its definatly not bugs............almost looks like rain rot but all over the body and small bumps......i think its a mineral deficency....and e seems to be the missing culpert.....this is strictly my opinion so if you are really worried about your guy take him to the vet......
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | mruggles - 2014-11-06 1:26 PM Southtxponygirl - 2014-11-07 12:02 PM mruggles - 2014-11-06 12:44 PM Southtxponygirl - 2014-11-07 11:33 AM mruggles - 2014-11-06 12:00 PM Southtxponygirl - 2014-11-07 9:53 AM mruggles - 2014-11-06 10:48 AM i know we dont have fire ants up here......lol
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| I have a few horses that get these every fall too. I've never had them looked at by a vet, but probably should. It seems strange that it only happens in the fall and if it was a deficiency of some sort wouldn't that happen at any time of the year? My horses are on dry lot and eat the same thing 365 days of the year. |
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Location: Oklahoma | The bugs get really bad in the fall because they know winter is coming and they're going to die....I have one that has a fly allergy and he gets these all over....but I also had a friend whose horse had a bacterial infection and had bumps that looked the same, and she had to give him some kind of extra strength antibiotic to get rid of it. At his age, I'd be taking him to a vet and having some blood drawn to make sure if it was an infection or not. If it's just bug bites, they can tell you how to best address it since he's an old guy. You can't treat them like young healthy stock. |
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Location: Oregon | So sorry I hadnt updated every one! I had the vet out and it was an allergic reaction to something but the cause was unknown as we didnt change anything. But what the vet thought was weird was just a couple days earlier he went to see a horse a couple miles from us with the exact same thing and they hadnt changed anything either. So he told us not to change anything we ate doing since the swelling was going down and oozing stopped. So we cleaned with iodine and put vetricyn on them he is almost all better now! Thank you every pne for the replys. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | BKC2112 - 2014-11-05 2:51 PM
It wont let me upload my pictures .... :-/ and im on my phone so not sure how to fix it.
Convert them from .png format to .jpg. That will make them small enough to upload. |
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what the heck are chiggers???????
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the bumps on mine have gone down alot with the addition of the lysine...
what the heck are chiggers???????
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Chiggers are a very annoying tiny, biting bug found in the midwest. They burrow into the skin and we found they only seem to be able to do so when they have some type of clothing to push against, like elastic on socks or pants tight against the waist and legs. I don't know if they bother animals or not but they are a nuisance to humans. I dealt with them for years in Missouri and never actually saw one. |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | komet. - 2014-11-12 9:31 AM mruggles - 2014-11-11 10:24 AM the bumps on mine have gone down alot with the addition of the lysine...
what the heck are chiggers???????
m Chiggers are a very annoying tiny, biting bug found in the midwest. They burrow into the skin and we found they only seem to be able to do so when they have some type of clothing to push against, like elastic on socks or pants tight against the waist and legs. I don't know if they bother animals or not but they are a nuisance to humans. I dealt with them for years in Missouri and never actually saw one.
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| mruggles - 2014-11-11 10:24 AM
the bumps on mine have gone down alot with the addition of the lysine...
what the heck are chiggers???????
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| komet. - 2014-11-11 10:31 AM
mruggles - 2014-11-11 10:24 AM
the bumps on mine have gone down alot with the addition of the lysine...
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Chiggers are a very annoying tiny, biting bug found in the midwest. They burrow into the skin and we found they only seem to be able to do so when they have some type of clothing to push against, like elastic on socks or pants tight against the waist and legs. I don't know if they bother animals or not but they are a nuisance to humans. I dealt with them for years in Missouri and never actually saw one.
they actually don't burrow in the skin and they are so tiny that you can't see them unless under a microscope. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | FlyingJT - 2014-11-11 10:39 AM
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the bumps on mine have gone down alot with the addition of the lysine...
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Chiggers are a very annoying tiny, biting bug found in the midwest. They burrow into the skin and we found they only seem to be able to do so when they have some type of clothing to push against, like elastic on socks or pants tight against the waist and legs. I don't know if they bother animals or not but they are a nuisance to humans. I dealt with them for years in Missouri and never actually saw one.
they actually don't burrow in the skin and they are so tiny that you can't see them unless under a microscope.
I stand corrected... I knew they were small. I always had good eyesight and still couldn't see them. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | FlyingJT - 2014-11-11 10:39 AM komet. - 2014-11-11 10:31 AM mruggles - 2014-11-11 10:24 AM the bumps on mine have gone down alot with the addition of the lysine...
what the heck are chiggers???????
m Chiggers are a very annoying tiny, biting bug found in the midwest. They burrow into the skin and we found they only seem to be able to do so when they have some type of clothing to push against, like elastic on socks or pants tight against the waist and legs. I don't know if they bother animals or not but they are a nuisance to humans. I dealt with them for years in Missouri and never actually saw one. they actually don't burrow in the skin and they are so tiny that you can't see them unless under a microscope.
The only time we had them was when our yard was covered in carpet grass, for some reason they loved the carpet grass. |
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Location: Oklahoma | mruggles - 2014-11-11 10:24 AM the bumps on mine have gone down alot with the addition of the lysine...
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | FlyingJT - 2014-11-12 9:39 AM komet. - 2014-11-11 10:31 AM mruggles - 2014-11-11 10:24 AM the bumps on mine have gone down alot with the addition of the lysine...
what the heck are chiggers???????
m Chiggers are a very annoying tiny, biting bug found in the midwest. They burrow into the skin and we found they only seem to be able to do so when they have some type of clothing to push against, like elastic on socks or pants tight against the waist and legs. I don't know if they bother animals or not but they are a nuisance to humans. I dealt with them for years in Missouri and never actually saw one. they actually don't burrow in the skin and they are so tiny that you can't see them unless under a microscope.
nasty little buggers..you guys can keep them.....blah..lol
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | Longneck - 2014-11-12 9:49 AM mruggles - 2014-11-11 10:24 AM the bumps on mine have gone down alot with the addition of the lysine...
what the heck are chiggers???????
m OMG... you don't have chiggers, fireants or poisonous snakes?!? I'm moving!!
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Location: Oklahoma | mruggles - 2014-11-11 11:00 AM Longneck - 2014-11-12 9:49 AM mruggles - 2014-11-11 10:24 AM the bumps on mine have gone down alot with the addition of the lysine...
what the heck are chiggers???????
m OMG... you don't have chiggers, fireants or poisonous snakes?!? I'm moving!!
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | FlyingJT - 2014-11-12 9:38 AM mruggles - 2014-11-11 10:24 AM the bumps on mine have gone down alot with the addition of the lysine...
what the heck are chiggers???????
m you never heard of chiggers!!!....... Nasty little bugs. You're to far north to know what they are I guess. They are larvae of a mite and they live in grassy areas or near water. Once they bite you it inserts an enzyme in your skin that causes little red bumps that itch and sometimes resemble a blister. I spray our yard every year for them and fleas and ticks.
nope..but i have learnt a lot about bugs and snakes from this site.....im still floored that some snakes give birth...i thought they all layed eggs.....ok you can stop laughing now...lol
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | Longneck - 2014-11-12 10:01 AM mruggles - 2014-11-11 11:00 AM Longneck - 2014-11-12 9:49 AM mruggles - 2014-11-11 10:24 AM the bumps on mine have gone down alot with the addition of the lysine...
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OMG... you don't have chiggers, fireants or poisonous snakes?!? I'm moving!!
They do however have ice and snow storm and glaciers.... and polar bears...
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| snoopyjoe - 2014-11-11 11:35 AM
They are BOT flies. They will go away but you might want to worm them. They are the bots that get into their system and hatch. They get out that way.
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