Re: Bessie cow vs 'ol grey mare

Gwen Dluehosh (dluehosh@vt.edu)
Wed, 27 Nov 1996 14:42:08 +0500

I'll bite, yes it's exactly the same thing- we are learnign this as part of
our curriculum now, so now it's just not only "interesting", it's true!
This also works with epileptic drugs as well. Someitmes the dogs can be
WEANED off the Phenobarbital, not just abruptly quit.... Enough from me!
Gwen
>Joyce, now that we are comparing cows to horses (Newell is right) I'm going
>to throw in bipedal homidid (humans). Yes,awhile ago when I first started
>endurance I was the pesty red head that snooped thru everyone's camp asking
>what they were feeding and tack used etc. etc. Well, I notice a high
>incidence of ty ups among horse fed straight alfalfa. At that time I hadn't
>seen anything in print regarding this, if so missed it but with my nursing
>back ground wondered if the horse like a human could develop a lazy gland.
>My little pea brain figured this out. In humans, people taking steriods
>for treatment of diseases have to be weaned off of them carefully becuase of
>the supplementation from an outside source the adrenal gland became sluggish
>in producing its own sterid, thus leaving a patient with dangerously low
>levels.
>Could it be the same in a horse where high levels of available Ca has caused
>the gland to also becaome sluggish in regulating Ca levels in the body.
>I timidly brought this up at a question period following a guest vet lecture
>at the convention years ago and all I got was...very interesting, it's
>possible. Whether be it Bessie the cow, the endurance horse or us, certain
>glands can lose their ability to function, kinda a use it or lose it
>situation.
>Does this make sense? Charlotte, isn't this what you were trying to say?
>
>Here's lookin back atya.......()()
>Linda Eisele & Sareei and ('')\
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Gwen Dluehosh
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