Ok so I know that white spots can come from pressure like ill fitting saddles cutting off blood flow to the outer layer of skin where the hair grows and not allowing pigment to reach to hair, but there are white spots (dime sized ish) appearing on my mares neck and near the top of her tail. There are only three but they seemed to have appeared out of no where.
Whats causing this??
My TB mare has these. They've multiplied with age. We've always called them birdcatcher spots. They're just in random places - neck, barrel, rear. I thought it was particular to TB's, tho?
Bird Catcher Spots
-Cause is unknown
-Small spots of white on the body about size of pearls to the size of a dollar coin
-Thought to have something to do with sabino pinto
-Also named after a Thoroughbred who carried the spots
-Found in Thoroughbreds and Akhal-Tekes
My Paso Fino mare has them. Last yeara, a few small round white spots came out of nowhere. Winter came and went with no increase in the spots. Then, voila, many more spots appeared this summer. Seemed like one day, had the same number as last summer (only a few) and then, suddenly, she had twice as many.
The spots are not from ill-fitting tack because they are on her neck (under the mane) and on her rump and her saddle is specifically sized for her. They're not from fungus because they occurred in the summer when she had her summer coat and she was in a stall at the trainer's unless she was being worked. So those two possible causes of white hairs have been pretty much eliminated.
So, assuming that these are birdcatcher spots, (and I'm pretty sure that they are), at least this one Paso has them.
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