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Discussion on White dots appearing
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Lsmith14
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Posted on Monday, Jun 21, 2004 - 12:47 am:
Can anyone tell me what is happening here? My friend's 4 year old sorrel gelding is getting tiny white dots of hair all over. The spots are small and some are about the size of a pencil eraser. They are spaced far apart, such as one on his dock, one on his ear and leg, stomach, chest, muzzle and so on. This has started just in the last two weeks. We live in Mesa, AZ. He is not always in the hot sun, he has a box stall with a turn out on the north side of the barn out of the sun.
I am curious and would appreciate any answers if there is such a thing. Thanks so much.
Linda and
"The Huckster" aka Classic Showcase
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Oscarvv
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Posted on Monday, Jun 21, 2004 - 8:23 am:
Hi
I'll be curious to see what type of responses you get to this question.
I have a Hanoverian mare with white spots all over her. I have heard all sorts of reasons for them starting with an hormonal imbalance, mineral deficiency and an allergic reaction to bug bites...... 
The person who owned her before was really annoyed by them and had the vet run all sorts of bloodwork, all came back normal.
~Barbara
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Mrose
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Posted on Monday, Jun 21, 2004 - 10:50 am:
We've also had an Arabain gelding that did this. From all I could find out it could be genetic, mineral imbalance, loss of pigmintation like humans sometimes get (forgot what that's called) Basically, everything appeared normal & our vet said not to worry about it & there was nothing we could do about it. So...I'll be very interested to see what Dr.O and anyone else has to say about this.
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DrO
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Posted on Tuesday, Jun 22, 2004 - 9:28 am:
Hello All,
Though loss of pigment does occur with inflammatory disease of the skin, the most common reason for the condition all of you describe is unknown.
The term for this phenomenea is "spotted leukotrichia" but horsemen may call these "bird spots". It is a common condition in horses, especially Arabs, and does not have any known root disease process. Most often they are not progressive but don't go away. Occasionally both of these rules are broken. There is no treatment.
DrO
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Member:
Lsmith14
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Posted on Tuesday, Jun 22, 2004 - 12:20 pm:
Hello Dr O.
Thank you for your response.
Linda
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Member:
Aaring
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Posted on Wednesday, Jun 23, 2004 - 6:10 pm:
I thought it was "bird catcher spots"....named after a thoroughbred (Birdcatcher) with those spots 
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Mrose
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Posted on Wednesday, Jun 23, 2004 - 8:53 pm:
A good a name/explanation as anything...as long as you have a TB! I have Arabians.
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DrO
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Posted on Thursday, Jun 24, 2004 - 7:22 am:
I thought bird spots meant, they appeared unexpectedly and it looks like what might happen is a flock of birds passed overhead.
DrO
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Goolsby
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Posted on Thursday, Jun 24, 2004 - 9:07 am:
My mother had ocular toxoplasmosis commonly call the bird disease. one of the symtoms was floating spots. I guess there is some connection between birds and spots.
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