My horse has some odd scab-like things on her nose and I’m concerned. She has a white nose since she is a paint. One of the other paints at the barn has the same thing and she has a white nose too. Her’s is way worse than my horse’s is so I want to fix it now before it gets bad. Is it sunburn? If so, how do I fix it?
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call your vet and ask…you know they don’t charge for over the phone questions!
i had a horse and i used human sun lotion and it worked it peels and looks weird and not normal it worked really good on his white/pink nose
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It has some ways to treat sunburn too. If you had a picture that would be great. But sunburn on horses is like a blister. They have horse sunscreen that prevents sunburn. They also have fly masks and sheets that have special material that acts like sunscreen.
Their nose will be very pink. And you can put zinc oxide on them, it won’t hurt them and it is what is usually recommended
It could be a sunburn, and if this is the case, try using human sunscreen on all the pink spots on your horses face. it works just the same for horses as it does humans and it wont hurt her. A sunburn on a horse usually looks the same as it does on humans. On the pink parts it will because alot more pink or red and it could scab depending on how bad it is burnt .
I’m not sure if that is sunburn. Sunburn on horses looks just like ours does. On a white horse it’s pink and after a while it will start to peel. We just use normal sunscreen twice a day. It works great!
They usually come up like a darker red, and then starts to look like a great big scab – so yeah it’s most likely sun burn.
Put sudo creme and calomine (sp) lotion on it to help sooth it, and put high factor sun cream on him when he’s out in the sun to prevent it happeneing again.
It does sound like sunburn to me.
Sunburn will scab up on a horse. Do not peel the scabs off, not matter how ugly they look. They will bleed just like your scabs do. Rinse the nose gently and you can put an equine antibiotic on it.
Then use sunscreen with a high SPF. You need to keep the horse from burning further.
If you have the ability, stall the horse in the day and turn out in the evening until it has healed.
Yep sounds like sunburn
Should look like this…http://www.doubledilute.com/images/burnnose.jpg No worry, just apply either normally human sunscreen (if you can use it on small children its okay on horses) or you can use that baby oitment stuff (ughh I can’t remember what its called I think it’s just plain old diaper rash oitment), but it’s what we use, and it does really well.
Watch out though, because your horse will get the white cream EVERYWHERE XP
You could also use a fly mask with a nose cover, which may wokr out better if you don’t want white stuff one everything
Only hte pink skin will burn, and it will develop scabs, then peel.
Sudocream will protect, or a mild human/baby sunblock.
Normally sunburn on a horse’s nose looks like scabs and then looks like dry, peeling skin.
As for protection, you can actually buy sunscreen specifically for horses.