RC: Re: Re: importance of roughage

["Claudia Provin" <provincmk@fanninelectric.com>]

.  My older Egyptian gelding
> hates grass hay so much that one morning I fed him, he
> stretched out and peed on it.

I believe your horse did this, not because he hates the hay, but because he
hates his pee to splash on his legs and the hay will "buffer" it.   I have
had this happen a lot when they (and their hay) are on a hard, splash-making
surface, like bare ground.

Claudia