Re: RC: Re: Fly repellant

[wambo@fast.net]

Okay, good ~ so sulfur salt blocks are fine for horses, and repel insects? I
wonder why they are marketed just for cattle? Is there anything else in them
horse owners should be concerned about?
Nancy
-----Original Message-----
From: CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com <CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com>


>In a message dated 3/11/00 11:10:36 AM Pacific Standard Time,
wambo@fast.net
>writes:
>
><< Isn't sulfur an
> ingredient in antibiotics (tri-meth-sulfur, something like that?) If my
> horses consume enough sulfur to repel insects would they test positive for
> it, as if I had been giving antibiotics? >>
>
>You are confusing the chemical element "sulfur" (or sulphur) with the
"sulfa"
>class of antibiotics--two entirely different entities.
>
>Heidi