Girth itch, hurray!
Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2016 1:23 am
Anyone with experience with this?
I noticed some crusty lesions around Miss Pickle's armpit about five days ago. She has just started US training, so she's going in the trainer's western saddle, which of course gets used on multiple horses. First he was using a mohair, and I *think* this just started when he switched to his neoprene cinch, but anyway, when we checked it out together the next day, it looked better, and seemed to be more in her armpit rather than directly where the cinch goes. For whatever reason, he used a different felt cinch on her yesterday. Well, today, it's 2-3x as much, so he didn't ride, and I slathered all the lesions with the silver sulfa the vet prescribes for scratches.
Planning to wash that off tomorrow morning and then treating daily with MTG, and having him hose her girth area after each ride. I also bought her a new string cinch so she won't be sharing with other horses, and I have a saddle blanket he can use under his pad as well. Does this sound like the right treatment plan?
One article I read suggested not riding for 2 weeks, but it doesn't seem to bother her, and we're 2 weeks into 30 days of training, so stopping right now would be pretty unfortunate (no indoor and we'll be weathered out in November, most likely). These aren't big, raw lesions with hair falling out, just pencil eraser sized crusty spots. Grr, we escaped scratches all summer, but she had little healing rainrot spots when I got her, and tends to get greasy heel on her hinds too.
I noticed some crusty lesions around Miss Pickle's armpit about five days ago. She has just started US training, so she's going in the trainer's western saddle, which of course gets used on multiple horses. First he was using a mohair, and I *think* this just started when he switched to his neoprene cinch, but anyway, when we checked it out together the next day, it looked better, and seemed to be more in her armpit rather than directly where the cinch goes. For whatever reason, he used a different felt cinch on her yesterday. Well, today, it's 2-3x as much, so he didn't ride, and I slathered all the lesions with the silver sulfa the vet prescribes for scratches.
Planning to wash that off tomorrow morning and then treating daily with MTG, and having him hose her girth area after each ride. I also bought her a new string cinch so she won't be sharing with other horses, and I have a saddle blanket he can use under his pad as well. Does this sound like the right treatment plan?
One article I read suggested not riding for 2 weeks, but it doesn't seem to bother her, and we're 2 weeks into 30 days of training, so stopping right now would be pretty unfortunate (no indoor and we'll be weathered out in November, most likely). These aren't big, raw lesions with hair falling out, just pencil eraser sized crusty spots. Grr, we escaped scratches all summer, but she had little healing rainrot spots when I got her, and tends to get greasy heel on her hinds too.