Emmett Dalton has a place on his stomach. It runs from front to back. It's easily 18" long as wide as my hand in the middle and tapering to both ends. I finally got a good look at it today. I've been putting Neosporin mixed with Vaseline on it but today started putting a fungal crème on it.
I have no ideas????
I brothers him as he'll paw at it and straddle things to rub and scratch it.
Anyone have any ideas?

Mike--

poor emmett! could it be a form of rain rot??? is it oozy? can you clean it?

i wish i could be of more help...for macho after he had stiches, we used a prescription antibiotic/cortizone cream on it, it worked really really well.

betsey

I don't know if what he is suffereing from is anything similar to what a friend of mine's mustang suffered from, but many have used this recipe successfully on a number of different skin problems....might be worth trying, it won't do any harm and just might help....here's the recipe:

Recipe:
4 parts apple cider vinegar, 1 part oil (mineral, baby or skin-so-soft), 1 part listerine (generic works), 6 parts water. During the worst of the season, you can add a tiny bit of bug concentrate like RepelX and more recently have added just a few drops of Eucalyptus. I added a few drops of Tea tree oil as well as a few drops of eucalyptus oil but did not add any fly spray. It is truly miraculous!

It's on this website:
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/nevinm2/page18.html

Thanks, I'm working my way through remedies now.
Some of my problem is I expect to see immediate results, I know better but I want it NOW.

You're welcome. Let us know what finally works. Good luck.

Thought I might add that we used that recipe on my mom's TB leg's....he was diagnosed with photosynthatisation(sp) and the whites of his legs were shafing and cracking....we were told they would only get worse and there was no cure....that we needed to keep them covered and protected from sunlight. The leggings we bought him didn't hold up for very long...but the recipi DID help, even though we were told it wouldn't....they clearded up and healed nicely.

Unfortunately, chronic colic & windsucking is another symptom of photosynthatisation and we eventually lost him to colic last August