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I help a lady in the seattle area with this problem we bought some stall mates and put up some feeders and to clean her horses sand wash jell from valley vet no more problems she said Jim Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone "mail.bevcomm.net" <[email protected]> wrote: >This message is from: "mail.bevcomm.net" <[email protected]> > > >I had a client who's been battling with sand colic for years. I actually said >when I started working for this person that she's gonna have horses with sand >in their guts. You see she has a paddock that she feeds in when the horses >come in at night, thus they ingest sand while cleaning up the little bits lost >from the feed pans. Sadly she thought she was doing a good thing filling her >paddock with sand so that it didn't get so mucky. > >It is finally caught up with her and the horses and we lost one last night, >the necropsy reviled approximately 50 lbs. of sand in Bensons gut. Now she has >another horse out for training and is afraid to bring her home when the time >comes. > >The question is any ideas how to address the sand issue out side of completely >digging out the sand? It's been suggested to till in some clay to make it pack >down more and less likely to be eaten. I'm at a loss all I can think of right >now is dig the crap out keep the horses off it! > >Roberta >MN > >Important FjordHorse List Links: >Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e >FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw >Classified Ads: http://tinyurl.com/5b5g2f Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw Classified Ads: http://tinyurl.com/5b5g2f
