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 I agree they look like warts. Maybe if he were in better shape altogether they would clear up. Warts are typically a virus.

Cindy, I'm about an hour and a half west of Chicago. Do you have a place for the big guy? 

I've seen those "warts" in ears and also on muzzle/around eyes - it's some sort of fungus I think - nothing life-threatening just indicative of poor care/nutrition/grooming and maybe fly strikes.

molly

 Makes sense. When I was checking for the tattoo, I noticed that his front teeth weren't nearly as bad looking as I had expected. I didn't get a good look at the rest but he may not be as old as previously thought. It's so sad because's so sweet. As hungry as he is, he's sooo careful not to trample the little girl (7) who feeds him with her dad. The others are all swarming her, pushing and shoving to get theirs, and he treats her like she's made of glass. 

Rain rot ,Flys and a bit o' corral crud... prolly shave ears and wash down with good Iodine wash/shampoo.  Don't forget that lots of the auction/slaughter horses came from horrible situations where they were dirty, not wormed, given shots, trimmed nor fed well.  Get a Coggins 100% for sure before you commit as the horse can't be transported, nor kept with other non infected horses if it's positive.  Once free of the situation stall rest, where it's 150% clean and picked a couple of times a day, get on a schedual for shots and begin worming ASAP. 

All those horses should have coggins already if at a sale or auction.

Chincoteague Pony? They are small cause they are from an island and they don't have that much for food.They tend to eat sea weed and the scrub grass that is on the island.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chincoteague_Pony
Just a though.

Those are sarcoids in his ear.

So sad, I pass a horse rescue on my way to training. I want to stop in and look but then again not. My next hore will be a rescue. I just want a nice trail horse to ride when I have time, no sense in paying big bucks for a pedigree.  

 4Pack, yeah, those rescue hores are really deserving....so sad to see them walking the street.  LOL! Sorry...couldn't help it. You forgot your "s."

Barb....thanks. That does appear to be what they are. 

I was trying to think of what has tiny ears; that bay I posted new pics of has pretty small ears, don't you think?

That bay looks exactly like some of the wild horses I've seen in books. I have a couple of books on mustangs. The one I'm most familiar with (Mustangs: A Return to the WIld)  has pictures of the Pyror Mountain mustangs.

A lot of mustangs have Spanish barb blood, and they have small ears, which are pointed towards each other, like that bay's ears. Some mustangs have large hooves because they got mixed with escaped draft horses from farms and ranches, but the typical barb-type mustang has thick-walled hooves that are almost shaped like a mule's.

Here's a description of the Spanish mustang. (The Pyror mountian horses have a high percentage of Barb blood, but are not as pure as other herds of mustangs.) The description says some of them are naturally gaited!

www.gaitedhorses.net/BreedArticles/SpanishMustang.shtml