What is this?

[Huggy]

Yard owners elderly horse - is this rain scald? It's on his neck, she thinks Hogan has bitten him, but it doesn't look like a bite to me?

 

[Lexi 123]

My mare had that last winter I was recommended to use forans M.R.S cream by my instructor It works very well my mares skin was completely batter after using it for a few days .

 

[Huggy]

My mare had that last winter I was recommended to use forans M.R.S cream by my instructor It works very well my mares skin was completely batter after using it for a few days.

So was that rainscald she had?

 

[chunky monkey]

If you pull the hair on the patch does it come away. Does it have any gunk/dry coagulation on the roots. From this picture it doesnt look like scald. Scald starts as a small patch. This looks bigger.
I wouldnt say a bite either.
Where is it on the neck. I think more like rubbing from lice. It looks like what my cows get. You wont see them necessarily with the naked eye. I would suggest a pour on. We treat the cows with noramectin pour on that covers lice. Im sure ive got a cow picture similar. Ill try to find it.

 

[Trewsers]

I wouldn't say a bite either.

 

[Lexi 123]

So was that rainscald she had?

Yes

 

[OwnedbyChanter]

I think It looks like a bite. Peanut came in one day covered in what that looks like I thought rainscald but no puss or scabs left it well alone and all have cleaned up

 

[Jessey]

Rain scald is the same as mud fever, just on the body, you get the gunky scabs that pull off with chunks of fur normally. I'm inclined to agree with @chunky monkey , looks a lot like rubbing from lice, that tends to be drier and scaley (spelling??) with bloody scabs. Bites are generally clean wounds with the hair off.