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Discussion on Tiny white hair spots on bay horse
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Annes
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Posted on Thursday, Apr 21, 2005 - 11:41 am:
This year after shedding his winter coat, my 22 yr TB has about 8 small spots of white hair in his bay coat sprinkled over one shoulder and no where else. They are each the size of the tip of my little finger. I know sometimes hair comes back white after a wound but I don't know of anything that happened. I am sure it isn't anything to be concerned over -in fact, everyone that sees it thinks a bird has splattered him! I am just curious if anyone knows what causes this. I assume it will not go away once the white hair has come in. -Ann.
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Trouble
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Posted on Thursday, Apr 21, 2005 - 1:47 pm:
Ann,
my bay QH has a very tiny white spot on his side. I had always heard the same thing about an injury, but I have never noticed any in this area before. This tiny speck actually grows longer than the rest of his coat. I usually take scissors and cut it close. You can't even tell it's there, but it does continue to grow out and I cut it occasionally. Weird, huh?
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Annes
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Posted on Thursday, Apr 21, 2005 - 4:40 pm:
Lisa,
Now that you have told me, I will watch to see if Monte's white spots grow longer than the rest of his coat. I remember a post here about a year or so ago about white spots but I could not find it when I searched. On Monte it is very noticeable. -Ann
P.S. Isn't it funny how we want to know about these things in our horses but if I wondered about every age spot/mole/bump/bite that I had, I would be calling the dr. every day! ha.
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Trouble
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Posted on Friday, Apr 22, 2005 - 11:53 am:
I am laughing with you, Ann!!!! My husband jokes that I sometimes worry more about the horses than the kids!!
Lisa
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Erinport
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Posted on Friday, Apr 22, 2005 - 3:55 pm:
Hi Ann-
Now, I'm not totally experienced, but is there any chance it was a very mild case of rain rot? My gelding got just the very mildest case of rain rot this winter, and his little spots of skin and hair (about as big around as a pencil eraser) that fell off have now grown back white. He's a totally black horse. The rain rot went away on its own. Maybe the white hair will always be there, maybe not.
I've also heard of older horses developing white "lacing" in their coats as they mature. Any chance this is the first stage of lacing?
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Annes
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Posted on Friday, Apr 22, 2005 - 5:28 pm:
Erin-
It could be. I did notice last night he has several other white spots scattered on his rump that I did not see before. I do know it is new this year. My mare who is the same age does not have any spots and she is sorrel.
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DrO
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Posted on Sunday, Apr 24, 2005 - 11:20 am:
This is a often observed phenomenea, run a search on "bird spots" or "birdspots".
DrO
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reinnrun
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Posted on Thursday, Aug 12, 2010 - 3:35 pm:
someone suggested spots were caused by a mineral imbalance - I have not heard that -is it true or possible? Another person suggested a small parasite - if that is true which specific parasite would it be? thanks for any insight.
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DrO
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Posted on Saturday, Aug 14, 2010 - 8:05 am:
Almost everything is possible regn but mineral imbalance and small parasites are unlikely causes of white spots without other clinical signs.
DrO
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