Re: Flax seed

["Susan Evans Garlinghouse" <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>]

I haven't looked this up, but my understanding is that growth/shedding of
hair is in response to shorter/longer days and release of serotonin,
melatonin, one of those hormones from the hypothalamus (excuse for not being
very accurate here, it's early)---that being the case, adding something to
the feed isn't going to affect the rate of shedding.  Unfortunately, lots of
grooming and rubbing is still probably going to be the best bet.

Good luck!

Susan G
-----Original Message-----
From: Rockinpony@aol.com <Rockinpony@aol.com>
To: ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Wednesday, April 07, 1999 7:02 AM
Subject: RC: Flax seed


>This new to the horse world kid was told that if a horse is fed flax seed
>that the horse  will shed their hair faster.  If this works it seems it
would
>be a good alternative to clipping.  A feed store close to me has the flax
>seed, but there are no instructions. Any comments?
>
>Darrell
>
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