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One of the things that helps to understand this is that the milk fed to horse by Bedouins would be either goat milk or camel milk. 

Maryanne

On Jan 22, 2005, at 6:49 PM, LTYearwood@xxxxxxx wrote:

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> Heidi,
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> I am familiar with the milk that the Bedouins feed their horses in the dessert. I am wondering if that has undergone the kind of complicated processing that the milk in America has undergone?
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> But like I said about the quote from the book denouncing milk products for horses in my earlier post: I am not a vet, nor am I an expert in chemistry, ect.
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> I am only aware that people with extensive backgrounds, including the woman who wrote the book?A Healthy Horse The Natural Way?(Catherine Bird has led the delopment of equine natural therapies in Australia?and is in worldwide demans as a practioner, lecturer and teacher) go back and forth regarding milk products for horses. And my thinking resonates with what Bird wrote.
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> I posted to give other people on this board some information I found interesting. Food for thought so to speak. Different ways of looking at things.
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> Gotta go ride!
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> Lori
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