RE: Tell me why not

["Kathy Mayeda" <kathy_mayeda@atce.com>]

Devils advocate:  enteroliths!  Someone I know  feeds nothing but alfalfa
cubes for roughage and he has had to pay for three enterolith surgeries over
the
past four years out of his herd of 24.  What's that, 12.5%?  Also, his
horses are of the bored, pasture ornament, type. (Yes, halter bred
Arabians.)
So they become termites and chew everything in sight because the cubes
don't provide a long enough chew.  If you wet them, I bet they consume them
even faster.

I bet there are a few other people that will pipe in about alfalfa for other
reasons!


-----Original Message-----
From: Tivers@aol.com [mailto:Tivers@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 1:27 PM
To: ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject: RC: Tell me why not


Alfalfa hay cubes. You put them in water overnight and they swell up
just
like beet pulp. The horses love them, dry or wet. No loss to wasteage,
far
more nutrition for the buck, a way to combat dehydration--what's wrong
with
this idea?

ti


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