Re: Nutrition ????(Your Ponies)

["C.M.Newell" <reshan@deyr.ultranet.com>]

At 07:22 PM 1/21/99 EST, you wrote:
>In a message dated 1/21/99 1:34:14 PM EST, epicarab@micron.net writes:
>
><< s she on Thyro-L?  It can help to control their weight. >>
>Tina: yes she is on Thyro-L, has been since she was diagnosed at 7 yrs
old.  I
>have never had a problem with fertility either.  I've read that these mares
>often are sub-fertile. 


Actually, there have been studies carried out in which thyroidectomized
mares were perfectly able to conceive and carry pregnancies to term. 

               --CMNewell, DVM