Crystallos
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Our mare turned up with bumps on her nose and lips Friday. I'll be seeing the vet about it, but I wanted to see if anyone else has experienced this and has any advice.
Some history:
Smokey is 15 years old and spent most of her life in Southern California. We moved to Oregon and brought her up here in July. In California she was on a dry lot, but when she came to Oregon we introduced her to pasture. We had no problem with the transition and no bumps. We moved her into a new shelter area, that's basically a big stall right now, while the winter pasture was being completed. She had a bit of roughness to the skin around her mouth while living only in the new shelter. When I started turning her out on the grass, the roughness turned into these bumps. I think they are itchy, it looks likes she's been rubbing at them. It also needs to be noted that the stall mats in the new shelter were purchased used. We washed them off, but didn't use anything special. The other horse she lives with isn't having any problems. I started her on an antihistamine my vet gave me for her COPD after I noticed the bumps, but I haven't seen any improvement yet. I'll be keeping her inside until I figure out what is causing the bumps. Thanks in advance for any insight!
Some history:
Smokey is 15 years old and spent most of her life in Southern California. We moved to Oregon and brought her up here in July. In California she was on a dry lot, but when she came to Oregon we introduced her to pasture. We had no problem with the transition and no bumps. We moved her into a new shelter area, that's basically a big stall right now, while the winter pasture was being completed. She had a bit of roughness to the skin around her mouth while living only in the new shelter. When I started turning her out on the grass, the roughness turned into these bumps. I think they are itchy, it looks likes she's been rubbing at them. It also needs to be noted that the stall mats in the new shelter were purchased used. We washed them off, but didn't use anything special. The other horse she lives with isn't having any problems. I started her on an antihistamine my vet gave me for her COPD after I noticed the bumps, but I haven't seen any improvement yet. I'll be keeping her inside until I figure out what is causing the bumps. Thanks in advance for any insight!
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