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> From "The Complete Guide to Buying, Maintaining and Servicing a Horse 
Trailer" by Neva Kittrell Scheve: (p. 5-6)

"Recent veterinary studies have concluded that the natural way for the horse 
to remove foreign material from his respiratory tract is to lower his head 
and cough. . .When the horse is not able to lower his head over time, and 
cannot remove these contaminants, the respiratory tract begins to suffer. . 
. When the respiratory tract is stressed in this way, the weakened system is 
more susceptible to bacteria and disease. With the addition of travel stress 
and exposure to other horses, then life-threatening shipping fever and/or 
other serioius ailments can occur.

"Feeding out of a haynet over a horse's head will increase the exposure . . 
.Each time the horse takes a bite, he shakes the dust all over himself. He 
cannot help but breathe the flying debris. Manger trailers are no better, 
since the horse must share his head space with the hay. More important, the 
horse cannot lower his head to remove the debris from his lungs in a manger 
trailer."

Terry
"May the Horse be with you"

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