Re: RC: Article on "Feeding The Endurance Horse"

[CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/20/99 10:11:15 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
michrowe@frontier.net writes:

<< I wonder how the water content in the horse's gut varies when Tom's and 
Heidi's ideal feeding strategies are compared.  Is there a difference in what 
the horse is carrying in water weight? >>

From what I can gather, Tom has not entirely ruled out the concept that a 
certain amount of roughage must be fed to keep the gut functioning so that 
the horse does not die.  If that roughage is in the gut, the weight is there 
and the water to keep it going consequently needs to be there.  If I have 
sorted through the hyperbole correctly, the argument is not over whether or 
not it needs to be there, but over whether the horse gets any nutrition from 
it.  Tom says no, the academes and the vets say yes.

Heidi


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