Clean your Horse Tack regularly

Always clean your horse tack equipments such as saddle, saddle pads, and horse girths regularly.

On using contaminated saddle pads or horse tack can lead to development of ringworm on horses. On top of that, they spread from one horse to another while having direct contact such as sharing haze staying in same stable.

Ringworm start as a small circular patch of hair loss on horse body and it grows into larger size, if they are not treated properly. The most sensitive areas to get infected in horses are horse neck, horse shoulders and area under eyes. They cause lot of itching in horse body which makes him quite disturb and aggressive.

If your horse is developing symptoms of ringworm, do not neglect it start his treatment immediately. The infected horse must be kept away from all other horses to avoid flow of this disease. The affected area must be washed with a shampoo consisting of miconazole and must be applied on horse body for at least 5 days.

When your horse is sick check all items in your horse tack wash them thoroughly and put it under sun for drying. Putting horse tack in sunlight destroys all kind of fungus from horse body.