On 2/28/07, Robyn Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anyway, I have experienced what would be considered late growth, in many > Icelandics, sometimes it is muscle development - widening in the chest and > filling out through the body - and other times it is definitely growth in > height. I have seen them finish growing at 7 and it can be horses born in > Iceland or here.
I went to a horse nutrition clinic last nite! And what the person said was that if a baby horse is given too much nutrition at an early age they can grow too fast and develop tendon/bone probs as a result, but if they are not given what they need it can slow and even postpone growth. I have three horses that grew up in a place where they ate a home made diet that I dont believe was nutritionally sound. The horses from this mans farm aRE SORTA KNOWN TO GROW "LATE IN LIFE". JASPAR GREW A WHOLE HAND FROM AGE 4 TO FIVE. whoops did not mean to hit caps. anyway. I wonder if there could be a connection to going on a really great nutrition feed program and then subsequently, late growth? janice -- yipie tie yie yo
