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I have an arab that is now 22 years old and for the first few years of her
life here in So. Calif. we fed only alfalfa, as everybody did in those days.
We then moved to Michigan for 12 years with her and had to change to grass
hay with some alfalfa in it.
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In a message dated 4/4/02 1:55:23 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
One theory is
that there is too much magnesium in alfalfa, and it precipitates out,
growing enteroliths---adding layers, sort of like a pearl, around
some bit of
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I don't feed round bales of hay, but I do feed round bales of cornstalks
-- the horses eat the leafy parts and bed down in the stalks. I do check
the stalk bales for mold and would not feed them if they were moldy.
I read recently -- in one of my horse
This message is from: Jean Gayle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems of mold and dust. My 22 year old has developed a cough from the
dust and from the light blue mold that forms on damp bales of hay. There
probably is also mold in the stalls from our usual wet winters. Due to
eyesight problems I was not
This message is from: Jean Gayle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tammy I should think you would find undigested alfalfa in the horses
manure if it were not digestible. My book says it is the most digestible if
it is properly cut.Jean
Jean Walters Gayle
[Authoress of The Colonel's Daughter
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This message is from: Jean Gayle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Amy, my big horse had anemia following a severe treatment for sarcoids. The
treatment seemed to lower his immune system. I was told by my Vet to put
him on Lixotinic, comes in a gallon container and horses like the taste.
Liquid. But first
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Mary and all,,,here's a book about my hay experience:
I have had the same experience as you here in Wisconsin. Expecially
with the first cutting, I usually have to leave the hay out on the field
a couple weeks, otherwise there is
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I had my fjord's blood tested recently and it came back that she is anemic. I
was curios what you all might suggest, or recommend as far as vitamins go. I
have had
This message is from: Jean Ernest [EMAIL PROTECTED]
First, I would ask Dr.Steve White here on the list, but your fjord may not
actually be anemic. What was the hematocrit reading (%cell volume)? The
normal range is about 32 to 52, with draft breeds and coldblooded breeds
having much lower
This message is from: Snowy Mtn. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi there
All great gardeners have more energy in the spring to plant then time to
weed . Organically you don't want to use treated wood in your beds. No
arsenic yuk.
A well composted manure pile with and leaves etc. can reach as high as 70
This message is from: Karen McCarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lois,
check out this search (below) on this topic at GardenWeb (great site btw, w/
a multitude of specific gardening forums)...there were MANY hot lively
debates about using horse manure sans ivermectin, or with...
This message is from: Karen McCarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gail, et al,
I am probably way outta my league here, but can't botulism occur when
something living,(say a cute widdle wabbit) that (carries, produces?)
botulism is inadvertantly processed along w/ the feedstuff (pellets,
haylage, round
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Jim and Tamara Hooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I try to purchase only grass hay, but at times due to weather
conditions alfalfa may be the only thing available. I've heard the
bad thing about alfalfa is that a horse's stomach cannot
This message is from: Bossmare [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We've been thinking of starting a small farm market specializing in gourmet
veggies and herbs not usually found in the supermarket. We also have an
abundance of old composted manure layered with leaf mold. Our pile is on the
side of a hill with a
This message is from: Jim and Tamara Hooper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It's interesting to hear that most people agree they can't let their Fjords
free feed. I agree mine would pop before they felt full. I am not an
expert on feeds, but I have heard that grass hay is easier for the Fjords to
digest and
This message is from: Bonnie Liermann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To Anne Weyker:
Where are you in Wisconsin? I am from Manitowoc, on the shores of Lake
Michigan.
bonnie
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There may be some confusion between dry round bales and round haylage bales?
My understanding is that the botulism danger comes only with the haylage
bales. Right? I think most of the people who have replied are referring to
the dry round
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Greetings from ND.
We bail all our own hay, natural praire grass, no fertilizer ever, and all
our fjords eat off round bales all winter as does the QH as well. I have
never had any problems with it, sickness nor fat. The winters here can be
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I had my fjord's blood tested recently and it came back that she is anemic. I
was curios what you all might suggest, or recommend as far as vitamins go. I
have had Morgan's that were anemic before, but if I put them on something
like red cell, they
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Hi Anne
Since we here on our farm make round bales, I would like to tell you my
experience with them. I don't know all the illnesses that can occur when a
horse injests dusty or mouldy hay or how to protect against this, so I will
leave that for others
This message is from: Vivian Creigh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When I was in Aiken training with Larry Poulin for 5 weeks the farm where he
was located fed round bales, in fact round bales were fed at nearly every
farm I went to. I had misgivings about putting round bales in with my three
Fjord mares
This message is from: Anneli Sundkvist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I board my fjord. Most of his diet consists of round bale haylage (the
horses have been given shots to avoid the most common form of botulism) that
comes from the same farm where the barn is. Cider has actually spent some
months whith free
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