Losing hair, oozing skin, high fever, swollen lymph nodes, not eating or drinking, help?

Question

On last wednsday when we were bringing in the horses we noticed that one of the older horses had a big what looked like scrape on his butt and was missing part of his tail. Thinking he rubbed it on something thats how we treated it. Since then he has gotten more patches all over his body, they are oozing, he has a high fever, isnt eating or drinking, his lymph nodes are very swollen and he looks miserable. What could be wrong?

p.s. the vet has seen him

Answer 1

Sounds like a major infection. Hopefully the vet put him on some strong antibiotics?!?! Penicillin, Gentocin? And bute or banamine to keep his fever down. The fever is your number one concern, cuz nothing's gonna get better til that's gone.

What did the vet say?

It sounds like you're doing everything right. Just keep up with his antibiotics, keep him isolated, hose him off often if he still has a fever, keep him and his stall clean, keep fly spray on him to keep the bugs away from his sores (don't want the sores getting their own infections from bugs!), put ointment like furacin (sp?) or novalsan on the sores - they will help them dry up. It really sounds like this is an infection of some sort, stemming from the injury to his butt. All you can do is give him drugs and time. Hopefully you'll see some improvement in 2-3 days. Best of luck :)

Answer 2

It sounds like strangles - highly contagious, if one horse gets it, all the horses on the yard are probably going to get it, there's a lot of it around at the moment too.

Answer 3

sounds like a staph or strep infection.  Some of them are nasty and take along time to go away.   you should be fine if your horse is kept away from him.

Answer 4

Make sure you deworm him (according to weight), and buy some "KopperKare" its a green spray, used for rain rot, or ring worm, can't remember. That should help if its a fungal infection.

Answer 5

sorry i have no clue but i coulndt help but say sorry

Answer 6

sounds like strangles to me. reasearch strangles

Answer 7

It sounds like your horse has gotten into something toxic, poison oak, poison ivy,  or he's ingested plant toxins.  I'd check the pastures for any sign of where the horse could have been rubbing or rolling.

Answer 8

My guess is a secondary infection resulting from the skin condition.

Any chance this is a QH who may have HERDA?

Answer 9

https://www.storesonlinepro.com/files/15...  ring worm does it look like that

Answer 10

I would say this is either some kind of massive allergic reaction, or it's a case of a fungal infection like sarcoptic mange or ringworm. Either way, the farm manager is wise to quarantine this horse- and I wouldn't worry so much about your horse. Keep a close eye on the cut that he has, and if he shows signs of infection, then get your vet out to look at him.

Answer 11

u go 2 the doctor!! DUH!

Answer 12

It could be colic ask your vet to see if it is and if it is colic see if the vet can give you anything to treat it my horse went through the same thing a few months ago so see if it is! P.S. call a vet immediately!