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| My 19 yr old quarter horse mare i just noticed today has two soft squishy lumps on her hind quarters. One is just to the left of her tail and the other is on the side of her right hind quarter. They are soft and squishy, not putting off any heat, and aren’t painful to her. It almost feels like air in her muscle. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? She has her long fuzzy winter coat still so it’s hard to tell by the pic but you can see it. I was concerned about something maybe being wrong with her muscles. For the last few months we have been getting her back into shape to haul this year. Any info would be appriciated. I will be having the vet out but I have been searching online trying to find any info and I can’t find anything. |
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| Considering her age, I wonder if it's just a fatty deposit? Just a thought. Hopefully, nothing serious and the vet can help! |
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Location: South Georgia | Do you have any pics? |
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| It maybe as simple as a fly bite ..
Several varieties of cow flies will lay eggs when they bite a horse or cow.
In a cow they will turn into cattle grubs along their backs or killed by
spraying or rubs ...
In horses the grubs cannot live on horse blood so they rarely make it
up to their backs. You will first see or feel them as hard lumps and after
the grub dies it creates a small abscess that will eventually leak some
yellow fluid and be crusty as it is healing.
I keep a solution of one ounce of strong iodine mixed with plain old corn
oil in a 16 0unce spray bottle for small scrapes or fly bites etc .. just to
wet and rub in that area.
As your horse continues to shed you may see some hard bumps across
his ribs and rump which may never abscess but just fade away.
Talk to your vet and see if these fly bites are common in your area.
Horn flies are the major culprits in Ok/Tx ..
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| We had a horse get kicked and develop something similar. Like a large hemotoma. Another horse we knew of had something similar and it eventually burst after several months and went back to normal. |
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Location: North Central Iowa Land of white frozen grass | I had a mare get one on her rump just as you described. Started out as the size of a marble and just kept getting bigger. It was soft and yet had pressure in it like fluid. Within days it got to the size of a orange. Had the vet out and he opened it up with a slit on the bottom it and drained it. It was full of a slightly pink fuid. He taped a drain tube in it so it would drain. Took the tube out in about 3 days and it healed up and there is no sign of it now. Never did figure out what caused it. |
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Location: Idaho | My gelding that I sold had something similar, he had it since he was.. 1 or 2? It was like a air pocket, literally you could poke and push at it and it would go down but just pop back into place. As he grew, it didn't get any smaller or larger, simply just stayed the same. It looked like a large, round, flat bubble on the curve of his hindquarter.
I did eventually take him to the vet to get his feet checked (we were having problems keeping him sound, found how is was just shallow soled and just needed shoes) but I had them check it out. They poked at it and told me it was because he had a micro tear in his muscle from growing at one point and that it wouldn't be a problem. Sold him at 6 years old and again.. never had an issue.
Not sure if this is what it is, considering the location it might be a few things. But it does sound similar to what my boy had. |
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Lumps on horses hind quarters