Horse with thin coat after Ragwort Poisoning?

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One of the wild ponies that live on Dartmoor came to our Animal Sanctuary in the Spring.

He had severe Ragwort poisoning and the vet said he should be euthanised.

We treated him with Milk Thistle over the following 4 months and he has pulled through and is doing well. He is lively frisky and happy, but he is clearly lonely for his herd.

The problem is that during the early stages of the ragwort poisoning most of his coat fell out, leaving huge sores all over his body. The sores have healed completely using a spray solution of Calendula tincture, but the coat still refuses to grow back properly in these areas, which cover about 40% of his body.

Unless we can find something that will encourage his coat to grow back to full thickness before the winter, he will not be able to be re-released back on to the moors to rejoin his herd as his coat will not be thick enough to endure the winter months.

If anyone has experience of ragwort poisoning and what might help his coat to regrow, I would be very grateful.

There is nothing in conventional veterinary therapy that can help, so I am looking for any alternative suggestions if possible.

Sherri G · Accepted Answer

How about a treatment of Aloe Vera for the horse.  In eHow, How To Do Just About Everything/Hair Regrowth Treatments. According to this, you break open the Aloe leaves and rub the aloe into the bare spots. On a human it says to wrap a towel on your head overnight (I don't know how you would do that for a horse.)  I hope this helps. This is from a person that has never ridden a horse.  My granddaughters 4&11 love to ride though.

? · Answer

Ragwort is the two poisonous while that's ineffective or alive, if the horse has been left in a pasture of rhododendron and ragwort it does not take long atall for the liver to start failing, yet of course there is not any set time. that's amazingly unlucky yet with a bit of luck the owner would be greater conscious sooner or later, consistent with possibility examine up on different poisonous plant life that's continually stable to comprehend what your horses are grazing on.

Henry · Answer

There is nothing that can be done for the horse other than turning it loose to be with the other horses.  Sometimes in situations such as this, nature takes over and signals the body of animals to produce more hair.  Unfortunately you will just have to wait and see.  There is nothing that will make hair grow on a horse, or any other animal.

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Horse with thin coat after Ragwort Poisoning?

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