From your fat
content table on your website, it looks to me like if a horse doesn't want corn
oil (which mine doesn't), then cracked corn is just about the best for adding
weight. Do you agree? And if I give ad libitum orchard grass (he eats about 25
lbs/day), how much corn can I give?
I'm sorry to
be treating you like an unpaid consultant; I hope you don't
mind.
-----Original Message----- From:
ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Susan E. Garlinghouse, D.V.M. Sent: Wednesday, January
26, 2005 8:05 PM To: 'Chris Eickleberry';
sjones@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE:
[RC] alfalfa/behavior
You can also tell your
boss that I just changed a whole barnful of baby racehorses out here in
California from straight alfalfa to a grass hay blend with a few pounds of
alfalfa, and not only has gate training idiocy reduced significantly, breezing
splits have gotten faster, too. And straight alfalfa is NOT ideal for
growing babies---there’s good research to demonstrate that incidence and
severity of developmental orthopedic disease increases on straight alfalfa
rations.
Susan Garlinghouse,
DVM
From:
ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Chris
Eickleberry Sent: Saturday,
January 22, 2005 1:14 PM To:
sjones@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cc:
ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject:
[RC] alfalfa/behavior
…I work at a
Thoroughbred farm, and my boss LOVES to feed alfalfa hay- as the lowly grunt who
feeds and cleans stalls, I HATE it when the horses get alfalfa- they are all
much more of a management problem. (they are all different ages- some weanlings,
some broodmares, some home from the track for R&R, some retired)….I know the
little ones and the lactating broodmares benefit from the alfalfa (and it
doesn’t seem to bother them as much) but boy!! the untrained two year olds get
RANK!!!..........the boss is finally listening to me lately-I think I showed her
some of Susan G’s hay info-- and the
last batch was better- an orchard grass/alf
mix…..YAY!!
