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RE: [RC] supplement for coming two year olds... - Susan E. Garlinghouse, DVM

Forgive the "me too", but I agree with Heidi's comments and suggestions
100%. 

Susan Garlinghouse, DVM

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Subject: RE: [RC] supplement for coming two year olds...

Ten pounds of Strategy?? Yikes!

There is no substitute for a high forage diet, and giving him feed in a
concentrate form will hinder his developing and properly utilizing his
hindgut function.  Give him ALL the good grass hay he will eat, supplement
with a flake of alfalfa, and give him a good vitamin-mineral supplement in a
HANDFUL of some kind of concentrate, so that he eats it.

Check his teeth (yep, younguns have dental issues) and perhaps consider a
fenbendazole purge, given his stuntedness, but don't go with
concentrates/supplements--you will be doing him a big disservice in the long
run.

Heidi




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