lips look strange!

[lisae]

My Haflinger filly Mara is 13 months old, and this spring she got the warts that yearlings go through. They are still there, looking disgusting, the vet said to wait them out. Now, the skin on her lips has turned all blotchy!

Where her white blaze comes down to her lip, the skin is pink; where her chestnut coloring comes down to her mouth and the coat thins out, the skin was always a black/gray and very even color. In the last week, she suddenly has the same look that some Appaloosas have around their mouths, kind of a pebbly mixed pink and peachy color, with the black skin sort of faded out.

Very strange, anyone ever heard of a horse's lips turning color?
It doesn't appear to be sore or anything, although her pink blaze zone looked sunburned.

It's always something!

[nakedescapee]

never heard of it... maybe just sunburned? have you put any ointment on it?

[galadriel]

Champagne horses:
"The skin around the eyes, on the muzzle, and under the tail must be pink with freckles.
The foal is born with clear pink skin, and the freckles develop gradually."

Really not quite what you're looking for, but yes, I have heard of a horse's skin changing colors.

http://www.ichregistry.com/identification.htm

By the way, from what I've read, the warts are the result of a mild virus and will go away just fine; but if you mess with them, they may spread (because you're aggravating the virus). So patience, patience :)

[lisae]

Vet was in the barn yesterday (my mare is in foal for May 28, '04 - yahoo!) and I had him look at Mara's lips. He said there are some very rare forms of cancer and it wasn't that; he thought she is just going to have speckled lips! and as noted above, that horse's skin and coat can change a lot in their first two years.

Galadriel, Mara was born was pink skin and then darkened - now lightened again. Maybe she does have a champagne gene somewhere...