Would you board your horse at a facility where on earth one of the horses be diagnosed near pigeon frenzy?
I'm going to be leasing my gelding to a girlfriend for her daughter to have lessons on. They will be boarding him at a somewhat backyard place. I have be there, the place is clean and safe. When we go today there was a unsullied horse there brought for training who has been diagnosed near pigeon fever. How contagious is it and should I back out of the deal?
NO cause dryland as we call it lays surrounded by the ground and waits you have to pour bleach on the ground and if she have the horse near where the other horse was her horse can achieve it
im actually moving my horses out of a place because they just came down near dryland
I definitely think not. You necessitate to keep your horse away rom that barn! Surely you can find some other place. It spreads so quickly and fastly that whether your horse when in there and you didn't douse the place in bleach consequently your horse would be infected before you can turn around and take him out. i would wait for it to quieten down then check to make sure none of the other horses get it and just hadn't started showing symptoms yet. Then help the owner disinfect the place and consequently MAYBE you can board your horse there. Good Luck! Hope I Helped!
no not a good idear it spreads ;/ u have to disenfect it next to bleach etc
Everybody else is RIGHT! Don't move your horse there, it's extremely contagious and inform your friend!
Answers: Normally an developed horse won't catch Dryland Dystemper (Also known as Pigeon Fever), if it's good. Although this crap is highly contagious, I've never known a mature horse (6 or over) unless they be really run down to catch it.
My then 2 yr old AQHA filly be running in a pasture with my then 17 yr old-fashioned QH and 17 yr old Azteca geldings. The filly caught it from another horse in the pasture, she was athletic and outside of the darned abcesses, never had an issue with it, she get over it. The geldings NEVER got it. There were a total of 4 horses who ended up next to it and all were under 4. My 2 yr out-of-date TB got it back in '84 and we layed him up for just about 45 days and he got over it, no other horses in the 85 horse facility came down next to it.
The only horse I've ever known to die of it was a VERY elderly QH in VERY run down condition.
Not only do you not want to send your horse there at this time, but the owners of this place should NOT even be considering taking any brand new boarders until this horse has recovered and is no longer a threat(i.e. cultures clean) - which can be a matter of months. Pigeon Fever is horrible and a real carry to control. They will have to completely confine the sick animal and use incredibly strict disinfectant methods when caring for it and disposing properly of his manure and other squander, otherwise it can live on in the soil and be spread months later by flies to other horses that board there. Treating your horse whether it gets it could cost you into the thousands of dollars and be a nightmare you don't even want to consider. My next door neighbor had an infected horse end summer and it was the scariest, costliest, most exhausting and labor intensive trial I've ever seen trying to cure him and keep it from spreading to her other horses and to mine, 100 yard away.
I have to strongly disagree with the poster below who states that elder horses normally don't get it unless they're already ill or rundown. My neighbor's horse be 7 when he got it this past year and was as nourishing and well-cared for as can be. 3 other cases reported in the valley were also adjectives older horses in good condition when they contracted it. Granted, young horses and those who's immune systems are compromised would probably be EVEN more suseptible, but don't for a minute think that older horses are immune! Also - the abscess they get are frequently devastating and can run the whole length of their belly and into the sheath or udder, requiring intensive and repeated first and drainage of pus and fluid that is highly infectious to the other horses, and easily transferred short incredibly strict asepsis. The other poster was apparently lucky but shouldn't downplay the seriousness of this awful malady to others.
