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Location: Bandera, TX | I bought a three year old at the beginning of November. She has a very glossy thin coat. Very pretty blood bay. The weather here is very crazy, 32 one day 75 degrees the next. I have her blanketed when it is cold. I noticed yesterday that she is shedding heavily…. Like it is March – it is just coming out of her. Any ideas why she would do this? I’m not keeping her under lights (she may have been under lights at her old place though).
It seems very odd to me…? None of my others are shedding yet.
Thank you.
Since I first posted this, the mare is now going bald. She has large bald spots all over her. Acting fine otherwise, but looks like a plugged chicken. I just want to cry.
Going to the vet tomorrow morning for blood work and skin scrape. Other vet thinks she is just shedding out to grow winter coat, and is being overly dramatic about it. I think she may have been under lights at her old place. I'm horrified.
Edited by GoMistyGo 2016-12-15 8:40 AM
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 Too Skinny
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Location: LA Lower Alabama | Any change in nutrition?
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Texas Taco
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Location: Bandera, TX | cowgalsissy - 2016-12-13 2:19 PM Any change in nutrition?
Yes ma'am. She was on a cheap Purina pellet, and now gets Hay-Rite alfalfa cubes and Hay-Rite Complete Pellets. And a bit of oil on top. Plus coastal hay of course. |
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Too Skinny
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Location: LA Lower Alabama | Bingo! Her body is able to produce a true coat now because her nutrition has increased. Really I am just guessing but sounds good right? |
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Texas Taco
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Location: Bandera, TX | cowgalsissy - 2016-12-13 2:34 PM Bingo! Her body is able to produce a true coat now because her nutrition has increased. Really I am just guessing but sounds good right?
LOL - sounds much better than any odd genetic mutation.... |
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 Owner of a ratting catting machine
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| Ivan is shedding too! I'm putting it down to way better nutrition! :) |
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Texas Taco
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Location: Bandera, TX | classicpotatochip - 2016-12-13 2:40 PM Ivan is shedding too! I'm putting it down to way better nutrition! :) Oh good!! Chloe the Hippo wants to be like Ivan!!! That is good. I like that. Good role model. 
Edited by GoMistyGo 2016-12-13 2:49 PM
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| My mare started to hair up early like in October, now she is shedding like crazy. But where I bought her from gets colder quicker so I just chaulked it up to her adapting to nice sunny southern Calif weather.. lol
Edited by FLITASTIC 2016-12-14 11:30 AM
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Elite Veteran
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| Hey Misty!
Other than this shedding business, how are you feeling about your new horse?! I saw your name and wanted to know if your anxious feelings have dissolved and been replaced by just happy/excited feelings?
Everyone is into a routine now I assume?  |
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Texas Taco
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Location: Bandera, TX | star1218 - 2016-12-13 3:08 PM Hey Misty!
Other than this shedding business, how are you feeling about your new horse?! I saw your name and wanted to know if your anxious feelings have dissolved and been replaced by just happy/excited feelings?
Everyone is into a routine now I assume?
Ha! I'm still a bit anxious about it - mainly the increased amount of work and money.... but when it hits me too hard, then I drink a beer and admire her beauty. She is a looker, I guess that is if she doesn't go bald on me.... |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | My horses hav'nt really put on a winter coat yet, the weather is so up and down one min. its warm and then its cold.. But the colder weather is on its way, hope you have a good blanket for her.  |
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Owner of a ratting catting machine
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| GoMistyGo - 2016-12-13 2:47 PM
classicpotatochip - 2016-12-13 2:40 PM Ivan is shedding too! I'm putting it down to way better nutrition! :) Oh good!! Chloe the Hippo wants to be like Ivan!!! That is good. I like that. Good role model.
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Texas Taco
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Location: Bandera, TX | Bump for update in original post! |
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Location: North Texas | I wish I had this problem. Mine started hairing up in October and is a huge fuzzball now, even with being blanketed.
Mind you, I am in TEXAS. It's supposed to be 80 on Saturday! |
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Location: Wherever They Send Me | lol...not laughing at you...I had the same thing happen and I know EXACTLY how you feel.
I moved my horses from Kansas to Alaska, when it started to get cooler and my other two were growing longer hair, my mare started to loose hers. I was really nervous, I had owned her for several years in other states and I had never seen her do this before.
After about a few days, you could see new fuzz growing in. I just figure, she wanted to blow her entire summer coat out before putting on a nice Alaska worthy winter one. She did the same thing the following winter as well...I have since move to Louisiana and she has long hair, but didn't go streaking before she put it on her "winter" coat. |
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | Bald, like to the skin? Is the hair coming out with skin attached? Possible dry rot or a type of mange? I had a mare that came down with bad dry rot. Her hair was coming out in patches. |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | ~BINGO~ - 2016-12-15 9:17 AM Bald, like to the skin? Is the hair coming out with skin attached? Possible dry rot or a type of mange? I had a mare that came down with bad dry rot. Her hair was coming out in patches.
Skin with no hair.. Poor mare, bad time to go bald.. |
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Too Skinny
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Location: LA Lower Alabama | Don't stress yourself out too much. I am pretty sure it isn't some crazy disease, just an entirely new coat due to the big changes with a new owner. |
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Texas Taco
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Location: Bandera, TX | I have some pictures, but after being on BHW for over 10 years I still don't know how to attach them.
The hair that comes out is clean. Most of her belly hair is gone. I don't see her itch like I have seen other horses do with fly allergies in the summer. |
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| GoMistyGo - 2016-12-15 9:31 AM I have some pictures, but after being on BHW for over 10 years I still don't know how to attach them. The hair that comes out is clean. Most of her belly hair is gone. I don't see her itch like I have seen other horses do with fly allergies in the summer.
Wonder if she's allergic to something in the grain? |
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