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| I bought a new horse two weeks ago and she came with some pretty bad rain rot. The guy said he had sent her out to a trainer who was supposed to be getting her ready for the track and instead she came back with Rain rot. She had the bald patches on her neck where he had already treated it before I ever saw her and before I picked her up he washed her in simple green and sprayed her with vetracine (sp?). I figured that would be the end of that but here I am two weeks later still brushing out scabs from new places! I have used a bleach water solution, listerine, and the corona spray for rain rot all with breaks between use of course not trying to burn her skin off her or anything! I have kept her in a dry stall, although she does seem to keep laying in her pee uhg, with no blanket so her skin can breathe and brushing her often with disinfected brushes that are only used on her. It just seems to keep spreading though! It started just on the neck then within a week was from the farthest back part of the withers to the base of the ears down to the knees and even between her front legs. Now it's spread through her middle. I have her on Forco too trying to help her immune system and gut. |
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| I had a horse get it pretty bad in the past, and my vet had me bathe her with betadine. A couple of baths later, she looked tons better! She didn't even get one new scab after the first bath :) hope this helps! |
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an anti-fungal such as a powder to combat athletes foot, or a canestin based cream
Feeding fish oil is supposed to help due to the omegas |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | We deal with it every year on one horse....this is what works for him...we keep him on a vitamin supplement with a in it...and straight iodine and scrub it in and then rinse him off and mtg when we cant bath.....m |
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| cheryl makofka - 2016-03-04 5:36 PM
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an anti-fungal such as a powder to combat athletes foot, or a canestin based cream
Feeding fish oil is supposed to help due to the omegas
Okay I have MTg and know it says it works in the bottle but a couple people at my barn didn't think it really did. I have her on Chia too so maybe that will help as well since its high in omega 3s too. |
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| 1. Give the horse a good scrub with that orange antibacterial soap. Let it set about 15 minutes. Rinse it out.
2. Drench it in listerine, let it set, then rinse it out.
3. Put some captan on the affected areas.
Should take care of it in one treatment. |
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Location: In my own little world | Captan works, human foot fungus creme and jock itch powder works, anything that has antifungal claims will work for it. |
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| Google Anjon Biologics, and read about their product Biowash under the Animal Health tab. This is exactly the type of condition that it helps with. Biogel is also fabulous to have on hand for cuts/scrapes etc. |
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| Its not a fungus, so fungicides are not always effective. |
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Location: God's country...aka TEXAS | I use OxySheen by oxygen. Its cheap and it works great. Works from the inside out! |
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Location: Florida | Definately the shampoo and listerine. |
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| Ok guys still battling this stupid rain rot! I have washed her in betadine, and mirco tech. Sprayed with diluted bleach water, listerine, vetracine, corona anti fungal, tried MTG. Her ration balancer has zinc, copper and vitamins A and E. She's on Forco and chia. I am super careful and disenfecting everything uhg! It's been a month and I can't kill it! So frustrating! I am starting to wonder if it is rain rot it looks like the paint brush type scabs but they are like teeny tiny now. There's also a lot of flakey dander I am guessing from the skin drying out due to treatment. I have a call into the vet and hopefully I can get him out this next week but until then he just suggested the bleach water everyday. I am at my wits end with this crap! I have owned her for a month now and haven't even been on her due to this! |
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| wishes4kissez - 2016-03-18 4:41 PM
Ok guys still battling this stupid rain rot! I have washed her in betadine, and mirco tech. Sprayed with diluted bleach water, listerine, vetracine, corona anti fungal, tried MTG. Her ration balancer has zinc, copper and vitamins A and E. She's on Forco and chia. I am super careful and disenfecting everything uhg! It's been a month and I can't kill it! So frustrating! I am starting to wonder if it is rain rot it looks like the paint brush type scabs but they are like teeny tiny now. There's also a lot of flakey dander I am guessing from the skin drying out due to treatment. I have a call into the vet and hopefully I can get him out this next week but until then he just suggested the bleach water everyday. I am at my wits end with this crap! I have owned her for a month now and haven't even been on her due to this!
You are dealing with a bacteria ... so you need to think in that direction ...
Vets have a blue colored antibacterial sterilizer they use when castrating that works well
when sprayed on her entire body ....
Since you are into the scabby .. worst kind... give her 5 days on and then 5 days off
and 5 days on again of Pen G ... 20cc daily ... these scabs will hide the bacteria if
not taken care of ..
For the dry and bald skin areas .... Lightly apply FuraZone everywhere she is bald ....
it will soften the skin so hair will grow back
Now is the time to get aggressive to get it killed and then you will have a good
6 months of letting hair grow back in before even thinking of saddling her up ....
I was at a stud farm last year with my fat shiny mares and discovered all the
mares there were eat up with rain rot and the babies were almost totally bald ...
all skinny and terrible looking ..
2 mare owners were there screaming at the stud owner about no hay, skinny mares
and of course their naked mares and frail skinny babies ...
I don't know if they called the sheriff or not... threats were being made ..
I never unloaded ... turned around and headed home ...
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Location: Opelousas, LA | We had heck with rain rot the first year we lived here and my vet who cares for pasture full of recip mares told me to give 30ccs of Penicillin for 5 days. As much as I hate giving Pen, it worked when nothing else would. |
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| Can I just get Pen or does a vet have to write a script? |
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Location: Opelousas, LA | wishes4kissez - 2016-03-19 5:31 PM Can I just get Pen or does a vet have to write a script?
You can pick it up at any feedstore or TSC, just be careful with it, most people never have an issue but horses can have a reaction to it just like they can with any injectable drug. |
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| We had one with a bad case on the back ankle. I tried and tried to get it cleared up but couldn't. I kept thinking he needed anitibiotics and I was right. Vet had us do the tucoprin powder for 1 week and spray with vetrocyn(sp) a couple of times a day. I had already shaved the area and it cleared right up. |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | There are two different conditions that can appear as rain rot. One is, as reported, a fungus. If your antifungal treatments are not working, then you have the bacteria. It is anaerobic which means it MUST be exposed to air to fully die. You can't just wash the horse; you have to pick off every scab and get underneath to kill it in that area. An antibiotic is also effective. I recommend a low maintenance feed through from your vet like tucoprim or uniprim first. Betadine is an excellent shampoo for this stuff. If you are still having trouble, there is a grey paste treatment from Britain that works wonders but it is expensive. Of course I cannot remember the exact name. :( Stuff is like $100 for a small bottle though. It will clear them up when nothing else will.
http://www.equusite.com/articles/health/healthRainRot.shtml
http://www.ed.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.18055!/fileManager/dveprainscald.... |
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| I just wanted to add be careful turning out after you apply the MTG if you end up going that route, they can sun burn bad and you will end up with a balder horse. Yes I was the idiot that did not read the fine print about sun exposure and my small blanket rubs turned into dinnerplate size bald spots after his sunburn peeled!  |
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| I'd make sure it is rain rot before you go treating it.
A number of things could be the problem, and if you don't know what you are treating, you may make it worse before it gets better.
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Rain rot help!