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Wow,
thanks for that info – guess I’ll have to do some research and talk to the vet
about this.
Marlene
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Message-----
From: Tiffany D'Virgilio
[mailto:dvirgilio@mindspring.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001
12:36 PM
To: marlene.moss@wcom.com; 'Norm
Cormier'; 'Ridecamp'
Subject: Re: RC: RE: Psyllium
on 8/25/01 9:13 AM, Marlene Moss at
marlene.moss@wcom.com wrote:
We live in a pretty
sandy area (decomposed granite) so itıs highly recommended around here to feed
the horses psyllium. Some people recommend feeding once a week and others
recommend feeding for a week once a month. We do the latter my thought
is that the one day may not be enough to accomplish getting the sand to pass.
Another article...this month in Horse and Rider-this is about the fourth I have
seen in the last year stating that Psyllium does absolutely nothing in getting
rid of ingested sand. One of the other articles (Equus, I think) stated that
they have done a study and that the horses fed psyllium were compared to
a control group and that the subsequent surgeries showed no difference.
The H&R article says that psyllium does not aid gut motility, nor help get
out the sand, but it won't hurt your horse. BTW, this issue actually has a one
page article by Becky Hart on Endurance. What do you know, a mag that usually
only has peanut rollers!
Tiffany
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