Re: Tortoise vrs hare, ie: carbo vrs fat!

["Duncan Fletcher" <dfletche@gte.net>]

Are you sure? I believe body condition scores tend to look at fat deposit
areas - around the tail bone, just below the withers, over the ribs, along
the spinous process. These aren't muscles. Am I missing something?

Duncan Fletcher
dfletche@gte.net


----- Original Message -----
From: <Tivers@aol.com>
[snip]>
>  >with condition
>  scores of 4-6 did better was that they had the fat stores to burn! The
>  really thin horses with no fat stores pooped out, and they may have
>  benefitted from Tom carbo feeding at 1 1/2 hour intervals to keep them
>  going because they had no gas in the fuel tank! >
>
> Body fat is not gas in the fuel tank--it's extra baggage. What you're
talking
> about here in better body condition is stored muscle glycogen, not stored
> fat. Do you really believe that the difference in body weight between
> properly fed and poorly fed equine athletes in hard training is body fat?
A
> delusion.
>
[snip]



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