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Re: [RC] The nutritional guide to lame babies - Barbara McCraryThis is a terrific bit of education!!! Just to share an experience of ours..... We once had a gorgeous weanling Arab that was unapproachable. I could hardly catch him in a small paddock and I couldn't handle him at all. He was for all intents and purposes, wild. I took him to a trainer who was, I now believe, just getting started in the newer natural horsemanship methods. To subdue this colt, she round-penned him at a frantic gallop, with fast roll-backs, for 1-1/2 hours until he was so exhausted that he submitted to being handled. Neither the trainer nor we realized what would happen in the future. I was impressed with the colt's submission, and the trainer was proud of the results of her training methods. Within a very short period of time, the colt's knees swelled up and he was lame. In time I brought him home from his "training" and was able to handle him, lead, etc. However, he stayed lame for the next 3 years and I finally had to "dump" him. He went to the UC-Davis veterinary school for study. It was a very sad lesson learned. If only I knew then what Susan G. has just informed us, we might still have that gorgeous bay gelding....... Barbara McCrary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Garlinghouse" <suendavid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Jennifer Judkins" <jenjudkins@xxxxxxxxx>; "Budler,Cindy - Afrox" <Cindy.Budler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 2:42 PM Subject: [RC] The nutritional guide to lame babies If anything occurs to disrupt this ossification process, then you get abnormal bone development, and there are *lots* of things that can potentially go wrong in this area besides a nutrition problem. Trauma can physically disrupt the epiphysis, causing what's called a Salter-Harris fracture; conformation problems can cause abnormal biomechanical forces on one side more than another...you get the idea. However, the most prevalent cause of problems appears to be nutritionally based, in combination with excess rate of growth and excess body mass. Susan G =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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