bite marks, won't fill in till next coat shedding?kinda long

[HoofHeartSoul]

Hi all,

my horse was turned out in a roundpen and another owner decided to turn her horse out with mine WITHOUT ASKING.(whole different story)

my horse and her horse used to go out together in a group in another bigger paddock.(i had to move him to another paddock since he kept coming in with bite marks and wounds, which he hasn’t come in with a bite or kick mark since then…until today.and that wasn’t from that group)

they also had multiple piles of hay in the bigger paddock,so basically they could avoid confrontations. well today there was only 1 pile because my horse was only suppose to be out there.

well she put her horse out and he proceeded to “defend the hay pile” and my horse is low on the pecking order and got nipped.

he now has a bite mark right on his side, ever since moving paddocks he hasn’t had one…until today.

is it true that they will only fill in with the next seasons shedding/growing a winter coat?

[FLIPPED_HER_HALO]

Not in my experience. Mine are always ending up with some bite, scrape etc. Hailr always grows right back in - don’t have to wait until the next season.

[HoofHeartSoul]

ok because this last winter when he was up in the “more playful/rough horse paddock” he got a couple bites that took a long time to start growing and started fillin in with summer hair.

i also found this comment on another thread.

Hair will only grow back with the next new coat. TRUST ME! We had a pony shaved for stitches last winter and he did not get one spec of hair until spring was getting close.

I asked my vet about it and this is what he said:

"A lot of the time, horses get bit/scraped/cut in the middle or beginning of a coat season. You stand back and wait for hair to grow in and nothing happens so you start to get worried and begin treating the area with something. (MTG/Aloe/VitE/etc) and after a bit you see HAIR!!!

However, it is just that enough time has passed for summer coats to begin growing in (or winter coats). It has nothing to do with the treatment but if it makes you feel better to think that you are doing something–knock yourself out.

[LookinSouth]

I think it depends on what time of year. In the winter it seems hair doesn’t grown in well until the summer coat starts coming in. My gelding got bit up VERY badly by an unruly paddock mate 2 years ago in the winter, the bites were through blankets nonetheless. Even after being separated from paddock mate and bites being treated the hair did not grow in fully until his winter coat started shedding and the summer coat started coming in. That said, he has had bites in the spring/summer that have grown in fairly quickly.

In addition, I trace clipped my gelding in January and none of the clipped hair started growing in until about 2 weeks ago when his summer coat started to come in and the winter coat started shedding. So to me time of year makes a difference.

[twofatponies]

I find it grows in 6-8 weeks or so at most (assuming hair missing but skin not broken, for example, which is pretty common with a nip). I hadn’t noticed it’s different in summer vs winter, but maybe it is.

[twofatponies]

The worst, btw, was when my older mare was once turned out adjacent to a gelding, with no problem, but one day she came into heat and when we brought her in that day she had apparently cuddled up next to the fence to flirt with him and had 20 crescent shaped bite marks all up and down her entire left side!!! None bloody, just hair missing, but she looked awful! She had clearly not taken the opportunity to walk away!!! Idiot.

[Love_My_TB_Consent]

A horse I was leasing when I was younger totally tore off all the hair alongside a black mare’s barrel. In the winter.

The black mare’s owner put hemorrhoid cream on all the marks, and the hair started growing back right away… with no white hairs either. Owner sweared by it!!!

I always used hemorrhoid cream on skin that was missing hair after that and it really seems to work. Could be psychological, of course. :lol:

[SonnysMom]

I too have used the generic Preparation H with success. My gelding got a scrape on his face. For three weeks the hair didn’t grow at all. I put the Preparation H on Monday on Weds you could see peach fuzz. I put it on every other day and it grew back quickly.

[kcmel]

I have found that bites and scrapes fill in quicker than clipping. My horse got clipped for an ultrasound in Jan and it didn’t grow back until spring. But his bite marks fill in much faster.

[RedMare01]

My mare regrows hair very quickly over a scrape or cut…I always keep something on it, though. Mega-tek works well, or just plain old Corona.

Caitlin

[Highflyer]

Yes, it’s just his summer coat. It will all end up the same color.

[TheHunterKid90]

Derma gel keeps the skin soft and hair starts growing back within a week.

[SuzieQNutter]

Horses change coats 4 times a year. They change with each season.