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Location: OK | I have a horse who has had an injury that I'm keeping up. If I put a sheet on her and it's slid too far back and I slide it up, it rubs her hair the wrong way, she jerks her head up and pins her ears. Also, I've just been using regular linaments, no blisters or anything, on her stifle injury, and not every day. The skin is peeling there. What causes a horse to be thin skinned ? Someone once told me it was a mineral or vitamin deficiency but I can't remember what she said. This isn't your regular thin sensitive horse. It must hurt pretty bad to make her so witchy. She's also cinchy. I used to think ulcers but would that make her sensitive to a sheet?
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Location: Kentucky | Has a vet checked her out?
I would also suspect ulcers. Ulcers can make a horse do very strange things. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | If she's scurfing, you're chemical burning her. Stop. Some horses can't tolerate liniment. I'd be a witch too. |
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Accident Prone
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Btw, now I have this song stuck in my head. Thanks.
wooo hooo witchy woman, see how
high she flies
woo hoo witchy woman she got
the moon in her eye |
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| Has she always been thin skinned? Or is it just with this injury? if just with this injury she might be in a LOT of pain to be so sensitive. If she's always been like this, well then, it's just her and like someone else said, the liniment is too much or you may have to dilute it down in order to use it and use the dilute solution every other day. Liniment is very astringent and drying, some horses cannot tolerate it at all. |
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Location: Beggs, OK | Invest in some MagnaCu Stifle Wraps. I've been amazed at how much more comfortable our horses are after having them on. You can't use liniment under the magnets though...nothing heat creating.
Stifles are one of the toughest areas to treat for me. I've had some luck using Surpass. |
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 Quarter Horse HIstorian
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Location: Aubrey, Texas | Three 4 Luck - 2015-08-13 9:35 AM
Btw, now I have this song stuck in my head. Thanks.
wooo hooo witchy woman, see how
high she flies
woo hoo witchy woman she got
the moon in her eye
Thanks, now I can't get it out of my head! |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | cloverleaf - 2015-08-13 11:45 AM Three 4 Luck - 2015-08-13 9:35 AM Btw, now I have this song stuck in my head. Thanks.
wooo hooo witchy woman, see how
high she flies
woo hoo witchy woman she got
the moon in her eye Thanks, now I can't get it out of my head!
You're welcome. I strongly feel everyone should share in the experience of thinking in song lyrics. Mwahahahahaha |
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Quarter Horse HIstorian
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | I'm glad I'm not the only one that was singing quietly to myself |
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Location: Oklahoma & Texas | If her immune system is struggling b/c of the injury and healing - it may cause her skin to slough off more easily... i know elderly get whats called cortisone skin from steroids and their skin gets so thing bandaids can peel it off... have heard of that before... not sure if the horse is or was on any steroids but that may have contributed.... genetics definitely can play a part.. i'd be feeding some flax to help as the omega's will help their skin tremendously.... that and vit E... |
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