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RE: [RC] Calm & Cool - Celeste MurrayI remember many years ago an old breeder telling me "you breed a horse, you don't feed a horse" his words meant that if you want a quite calm sensible horse then breed one from parents with the right temperments, don't starve the horse so that it has no energy to be naughty or in some cases use a calming supplement to quieten it :-) -----Original Message----- From: Heidi Smith [mailto:heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 4:18 PM To: Celeste Murray; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [RC] Calm & Cool I agree with your statement below Heidi, I would however just like to add that things are not always "black and white" I was told by my equine hospital after they did tests that my gelding is scatty because he has a thiamin deficiency. I put him on a supplement and he is a much calmer horse, so much so that people have asked if I have him on a calming supplement. Sounds like a success story! :-) Still, a deficiency of a nutrient causing an irritability isn't quite in the same ballpark as giving a calming agent to a horse in robust good health. (It does, however, bring up the point of making sure the horse really IS in optimum health, and not just assuming that its hypersensitivity is due to bad manners...) Heidi =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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