Urgent help needed - ear warts

[julie]

Please please can anyone help with info relating to what looks like a disgusting cluster of pinkish warts inside the ear of my young sec B mare? When we bought her we noticed calcium like flakes so called the vet out and he scraped them, then did them again about 6 weeks later. It made her quite head shy, so we thought we would turn her away for the summer. She has come back looking magnificent HOWEVER the one ear has a growing colony inside! I have never ever seen anything like it. My gut feel is you should be able to treat it as you would do with human warts but I am very worried she will end up with a terrible ear phobia... she is the sweetest tempered pony, medalled as a yearling and we had high hopes for her as a MM WHP.....any ideas??

[ears]

My fell pony suffered with ear warts as a 4 year old. Obvioulsy he has far more "ear Fluff" than your section B but i made the decision to leave them alone because like you i was worried that my intervention would make him head shy. I am happy to say that they had gone by the time he was five of their own accord!!

[natmidd]

I rode a pony years ago with the same problem and we just left them alone. He was a show pony and had to have his ears clipped out so we just coloured them in!! Never did him anyharm in or out of the ring.

[julie]

they look very similar to those long white fly eggs,but about three times the size - like big grains of rice...she's chesnut and the things are whitey/yellowy and stand out like a beacon....would a judge put her down?

[Fungus]

It sounds like ear fungus, A couple of my ponies had this especially the youngsters. Nearly had a heartattack the first time I saw it!

Anyway got the vet who pulled it off, very quickly and simply, and then gave us a mild steroid cream to put on the area for about a week after...........and touch wood they have never returned.

Another you ngster of mine had a very ugly cluster of warts on his nose and muzzel, I was tempted to use normal human treatment, but I did try some camrosa that we had and that did the trick!!!!

[CM]

I've got a horse who grew fungus in both his ears aged 2 after catching an infection from cattle he was grazing next to. He's 20 now and they've never gone away, although we could have had them scraped (he's not a show horse, so we didn't), but this would have needed repeatng regularly. He's very wary of people touching his ears now (we have to put the bridle on by undoing it etc).

There are several different things your pony could have, so it's probably worth getting the vet out to have a look.

[julie]

Trouble is because she has been scraped and then the vet said to keep rubbing her ears to get her de-sensitised, the opposite has happend and she is really protective of them...she was broken then turned away in Feb this year so we need to restart her but thought I'd leave her till next Spring...because they are so different from early this year I was kind of hoping they were a little bit like a fairy ring of mushrooms, "blooming" before they finally wither and die!!! I am beginning to think that the last 6 months of bad luck had a lot to do with my husbands cousing who was a tramp for 50 years, dying and his ashes are in the house - as he couldnt bear being in a house I have moved him into the garden (thinking he'd apprecciate the fresh air) but when I saw the pony on Sunday morning - maybe the garden wasn't free-ing enough!!!

[give it ago worked for me]

hi my section c had ear warts in a big cluster the size of a 50 pence i got some wartner that you use for varucers or warts on humans used it a couple of times and it worked a treat didnt hurt the pony and shes right as rain now. not ear shy or anything. its your descision but just thought i would pass on the information.

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[julie]

If you look in todays H and H on page 14 there is an article on Headley Brittania and her "cauliflower" ears - this is EXACTLY what my young 4 yr old has - has anyone ever managed to get rid of this?

[kilty]

We never managed to get rid of the cauliflower ears but we did manage to get black wound powder down them! Not only did that help the 'cauliflowers' but it also darkened them for shows so that it wasn't quite so obvious. And we were always careful so the horse wasn't bad about having things done with his ears

[armada]

I had this very same conversation with my vet this week as I had a mare with some, luckily, when I touched them they powdered and fell away, but he says they are best left for the reasons stated by people above, he said the worst culprits for messing with them were vets, and its just best to colour them in for showing. Nobody ever noticed them on our mare when I did that and I suppose I was just lucky one day, when I went to clip her ears out and touched them they just dematerialised. That was two seasons ago. You have to be so careful with things like that as messing with them can make them quite angry and come back in force.

[essendy]

My 14.2hh had ear plaques and like the mare that was in the H&H she had to have her bridle taken apart.Otherwise she was happy to have her poll touched just not her ears.We left them alone and it was never an issue.And judges didnt bother about it.

[sallyw]

I had a pony with them and was told by my vet to leave them alone. When I saw your post I went out to have alook - we don't do much with ears in the winter - and sure enough they have gone. Do you know a witch who might put a spell on them? This is serious because I knwo someone with a horse with a mystery lumpy rash and a witch got rid of them - I guess they might have gone anyway. Do you think I have had too many flu remedies altogether and I am writing rubbish? I'll go back to bed.

[julie]

You see, thats what I'm really fretting about as she is a really quite nice Sec.b who we had high hopes for as a FR/MMWHP but thought we'd have to not bother with showing and bring her out as a PC ODE/allrounder... I thought it would be classified as a blemish? Its worse in one ear than the other and its very noticeable unfortunately. Its also a worry when you come to sell them too. She's turned out now till September when we will re-start her. It has been suggested that having a foal could strengthen her immune system - but we dont breed.

[lolly]

I dont know anything about ear warts but I remembered a friend bought a horse with them and used something she brought back from america, rang her and she said its called dermafas or something to the effect. Anyway it worked but like she said they could have gone on their own or it could be the cream.