unusual hair loss

[cebwtx]

This has been several years back but just remembered it. There was a baldy steer that was constantly getting spots of missing hair. It was almost always on the same side and had no signs of anything to give a clue as to what might be causing this. The calf was housed at the school ag barn as most of the kids at our school did not have access to other housing options for their animals. After about a month of this going on with no answers a few of us finally found out the answer. The pen next to the steer housed a few sheep. They were the problem. Evidently the calf liked the nibbling a would not move as they periodically would remove patches of hair. Just wondering if any one else has unusual culprits to different problems with their animals.

 

[GoWyo]

Horses can get really short tails if calves get to chewing on them through the fence.  Looks pretty dumb for several months it takes to grow it back.

 

[russfarm]

We have a pen of 17 jerseys that are the chewiest things I've seen!  They will chew on our cows in the next pen and the dumb things just stand there and let them do it!  By looking at some of them, you'd think they had mange or something ???...lol