Gotta Be Hokey

When I brought Abby home from Indiana Horse Rescue in 2012, she had a lovely full mane.

In just a short time after her arrival, that beautiful mane had disappeared.

At first I thought she might be rubbing it off on the round hay feeder, but when it was summer and she was on pasture, her mane did not regrow.

I have never seen her rubbing her mane on the fences nor have I found long blonde strands of mane on any fencing, so I know she isn't rubbing it out.

That left one of her pasture mates as the suspect. One of them had to be chewing if off. But who?

I had seen Hokey once or twice go after her mane while they were doing some mutual grooming, but that didn't mean it was him. After all, Trouble, Dolly, Persuasion, Diablo, Yukon, Mason, Snickerdoodle, and several other horses have been pastured with Abby during her time with me.

But all those horses are gone now. Sultana is still pastured with Abby, but she wasn't even born when Abby's mane first disappeared. 

So, unless there's a possibility I haven't considered, I've found the culprit.