I have a BARELY three year old lactating mare. She just turned three two months ago. She was accidentally pasture bred when I bought her, and at the time, she didn't look pregnant. When she was pregnant with the foal, she looked healthy - but not pregnant. She had the filly right after her third birthday. The filly is healthy enough, but her dam isn't. My mare is constantly sweaty. She could be expected to look sweaty because it's summer, but this is unhealthy! She's sorrel, but during most daytime hours, she looks bay because she's so sweaty! She looks very sickly; she doesn't weigh enough, and has rain rot very bad. I'm treating the rain rot, so that's not a big problem, but I feed her 4 pounds of oats and sweet feed in the morning, 2 pounds at noon, and 4 pounds at night. She is not gaining any weight. I've been feeding her this much for over a month and a half and still nothing. She should look at least a little better by now. The filly looks very healthy, though she's very sweaty too. I think the filly's sweatiness can be attributed to all of her baby fur which is very thick and her being very dark colored. (She's going to be black when she sheds out; right now she's a dark dun color) My other mares and my colt are not nearly as sweaty. My bay mare is sweaty around her flank, my chestnut mare is sweaty around her throatlatch, and my chestnut colt is sweaty around his flank - but my lactating sorrel mare is sweaty all over her whole body. This mare is on a regular de-worming routine, she gets lots of clean water (I change the water daily), eats plenty, so I don't understand why she's so unhealthy looking and sweaty. Do you have any ideas or cures? Should I call the vet immediately? Thanks!
-FunnyCide
Dangernerd does sound like he might know what's he's talking about. The only problem is if it's only affecting these two horses, it's not as likely that it would be a bacteria that normally spreads to every horse in the area.
Normally, I would be able to help more with animals, but I'm not a horse expert, and haven't even yet taken the time to learn about colors yet. But, I do think that you should CALL the vet immediately. Like dangernerd pointed out, you can call and get free advice. Veterinarians are there to help the animals out, trust me, people in this field make surprisely little money, you would have to go into it for the love of the job, not the money.
So, if you call a Large animal veterinarian and tell them of your predicament, they will try to help you as much as possible.
Perhaps it's some kind of internal parasites, or bacteria. Perhaps if I had payed a little more attention to my clinical class last semester instead of lazily hanging out with a friend till four in the morning, then I would be able to tell you what it sounds like.
But, a Veterinarian is your best bet.
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yep... I think it's kinda weird that it's only affecting the mare and her foal, too.. but I'm calling the vet ASAP.
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