Re: Tying up

[owens <owensall@sierranet.net>]

Dear Cathy;
My mare does have very heavy muscling and has been mistaken for a 
quarter horse in the past.  I always attributed it to her muscle
type...she's very fast and has a helluva butt!
Katee
> 
> > Dear Barbara;
> > My older mare, Teza, had a chronic history of tying up.  She finally
> > went right when I took alfalfa out of her diet and fed her bermuda grass
> > exclusively.  Now that she's not competing and she is out on five plus
> > hilly acres, she can tolerate a bit of alfalfa, but still gets primarily
> > forage and good oat hay, some beet pulp.
> > Katee
> 
> With the spread of the HYPP gene in the QH pool, I have been told that one
> of the ways to manage it is the total elimination of alfalfa from the horses
> diet.  Since breeders are having to manage these horses differently, they
> are managing all of their horses differently and one breeder told me that
> they are having fewer tie up problems in all of their horses.  Now, I don't
> know if this is just one breeder and one vet or if there is some scientific
> basis in this, or if it is valid how much of it relates to muscle type, but
> it might bear some looking at if you have tying up problems.
> Cathy

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