This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 6/1/2002 8:08:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> But since > starting with red raspberry leaf on our pregnant mares, we've had beautiful > > deliveries and no retained placentas. > Pamela: We learned this one somewhat by accident a few years ago. We had a 22 year old mare, Ellinor, that we were trying to breed. She was bred but had not settled that year (I think thru two cycles). Then we had gotten our own stallion - Our dear departed Bjorn-Knutson - and had tried to breed her the following year, with the same lack of results thru 3 cycles. We were about to give up, but decided to give it one more try. About two weeks before she came into season again we had her out in the yard cleaning up the grass where we couldn't mow, and she managed to get into the old garden area. There happened to be a row of old Raspberry canes there which Ellinor stripped of every leaf. I did some research on the Internet to find out if this could be harmful to her, and found lots of references to Raspberries being beneficial in the area of reproduction..... Hmmm?? Ellinor was bred again about two weeks afterward and promptly conceived. We then got a hold of more Raspberry leaves from a local gardener, cleaned and dried them and continued to supplement Ellinor with them. She had an easy birth and a beautiful colt 11 months later, and bred back again with no trouble. She had a lovely filly as her last foal, at 25 years of age! We now give dried Raspberry leaves to our other mares before breeding. Amy Amy Evers Dun Lookin' Fjords Redmond, OR Fjord [EMAIL PROTECTED]
