Good morning becky. I was trying to find my cat this morning that is about to pop and glanced up at Sugar in the ditance to see RED all over her back and thighs and bottom! SH!T I thought and ran out to the field. Thank goodness it wasnt blood! It was a reddy purple and heaven knows where she got it from. My only thought was that she must have rubbed up against the red gate and the color came off? First time this has happened and they werent cheap gates, but the only thing I can think off. Smokey is in a different field right now as we have more grass than we have horses!~
Scared the living daylights out of me though..!
Sounds to me like you have poke berries around. They leave reddish purple stains on horses, and it's very hard to wash out. I had a gray one time get into some poke berries on his mane during the puke rock faze:), he fit right in:)
Becky