This message is from: "Mighty Mouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'm new to this list...my name is Merri and we recently bought two fjords
this past summer. One of our girls had a floppy mane and had her tail
chewed short by our silly goat...we roached her mane and kept it short but
still had some problems with it flopping...I just figured I would keep it
real short. Anyway, I used to feed my quarter horse Natural Glo and it did
wonders for her coat and had a calming effect...so I thought this winter I
would put the fjords on it and the Grow Strong mineral...what has happened
is that the girls are very hyper but Kari's mane is standing tall and her
tail is growing like crazy! I figure I am going to try just giving them the
Natural Glo and see if they calm down any? When we bought them, they were
real quiet but now they seem super-charged, so I think together, the mineral
is too much. I did notice that they gained weight, more then I wanted.
Anyway, just thought I would let you know...good luck.
>From: Paula Chmura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: Natural Glo and mane
>Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 15:14:27 -0800 (PST)
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>This message is from: Paula Chmura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Frodo has always had a mane that sort of flopped for most of it's
length. I roached it, kept it trimmed and it still flopped. Well this
winter he started dropping weight so I started him on some Natural Glo rice
bran and low and behold his mane popped straight up within two weeks of
starting him on it. His coat just glistens to. I've used this on other
horses (WB and Appaloosa) in the past with good luck but didn't think about
it on Frodo because of the high fat content until now that he needed it
because of weight. Does anybody else feed a rice bran product or equivalent
to their fjords? Now I'm thinking about keeping him on the rice bran year
round if I can keep him from porking out too much in the summer on the
grass. I've tried mineral supplementing Frodo in the past (Select II) and
he reacted very badly to it (became hyper). With the rice bran he is just
his normal, calm self and looks and seems to feel great.
>
>Paula and Frodo
