ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: [endurance] fireants

Re: [endurance] fireants

Truman Prevatt (prevatt@lds.loral.com)
Wed, 20 Mar 1996 08:48:33 -0400

You are probably correct they will move in the rain. Some the worst fire
ant attacks come when people are wading around in flood water. For some
reason when their nest get flooded they move in mass to higher ground.
This could be what happened.

>What you described is just what he has. Interestingly, the bites where he
>was clipped came to a head first, the ones where he has Vermont hair took
>over two weeks to finally go through their "thing". they no longer seem
>sensitive, but he has over 80 holes in him! and this Yank knew about the
>ants and avoided them but after that rain, the ants must have moved. Lana's
>horse also got bit but did not react like Khasun. One would think that a
>horse raised in Georgia would have known better!

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The race is not always to the swift, but to those that keep running.

Truman and Mystic "The Horse from HELL" Storm
and Danson "The Demon in Training" Flame

prevatt@lds.loral.com - Sarasota, Florida
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