Mare has white hair round eyes

[kizzy]

My black mare has developed white glasses round her eyes. The skin above and below the lids and hair have turned white, not pink! She is due to foal in May.

I believe it is a copper deficiency, but could be vitiligo (Michael Jackson would be envious). Has anyone experienced this before and how did you treat it? i.e. supplements etc and did the hair return to its original colour.

She is bright, lively, shiney and well in all other respects.

I know 'all creatures great and small had a herd of cattle' with this problem. She does look like the inverse of Harry Potter. If someone had put trick black soot round the looking bit of binoculars then this is how she looks, in negative!

[pipsqueek]

hi ther have you asked you vet what he thinks i have never heard of it before sorry i cannot help

[ferret]

my friend had a brood mare with exactly the same thing ! She was like that for years with no ill effects , not sure why it happens or what causes it tho

[spot]

I have seen this before and was told it was caused by a mineral deficiency in the diet.