Re: Test question/tieing up

[Tivers@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/18/00 1:30:14 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
hn.heather@wanadoo.fr writes:

<< I'm curious about this because I've just had a mare tie up for the first
 time for no obvious reason (and I AM being honest with myself folks!).
 Would it be safe to say that a horse being tapered back to light work would
 be in little danger from tieing up if the feeding was tapered back
 accordingly?
 
 Heather
 France
  >>

No. Feed manipulations do not prevent tying up under these circumstances. 
perhaps if you actually starved the horse so that no glycogen was deposited 
in muscle cells, but that's never been done that I know of.

ti