Re: RC: Re: hydration and hay type

[Roger Rittenhouse <roger@vmaxept.com>]

Hello Susan,  well - I really have to go along with Susan on this one.
 HOW ABOUT THAT??

 I use to feed LOTS of good ole PA home grown Alfalfa .. horses had
 'problems' many undefined .. now feed base hay - grass and some clover
 and a very small amount of alfalfa in the winter and at rides.

 I have read enough studies to come to this conclusion.
 Roger

Saturday, September 08, 2001, 9:55:14 PM, you wrote:

>>Susan, I like alfalfa hay. My horses like alfalfa hay. I >have been feeding strait alfalfa and T&A for 8 years and >nairy a problem. Am I lucky or am I just getting crappy >hay?

SG>   No, I just think you probably don't know what problems to look for, don't know how to look for them if you did, and aren't realizing that lack of major signs of disease is not the same thing as
SG> room for improvement.

SG>   > When I read that feeding strait alfalfa will make a >horse >urinate more than if fed grass hay, it makes the >urine >smell like a strong ammonia yada, yada, yada, I >just >don't buy it. I
SG> have 6 horses that I can watch all day >long. I have yet to see that "research" pan out in my >back yard. 

SG>   Then don't.  No one's forcing you to believe it, any more than you're required to believe the earth is round.  I'm just passing on the results of studies carried out by people that know what
SG> they're doing.  
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