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  • From: Pennbo <pennbo@bbv.net>
  • To: Claudia LaChance <Claudia@tqc.com>, Mounted search and rescue <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [MSAR] Pelleted feed, ignorance or bliss?
  • Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:20:31 -0800

Claudia- be careful of spring grasses with your foundered horse. The highest sugars in grasses are in the mornings after a freeze or near freeze. As it warms in the mornings the sugars increase in the above ground part of grasses. These sugars can have a direct relation to a reoccurance of founder. Most folks I know with previously foundered horses pull them off pasture in the spring and dry lot them. Of course blood work will give you a lot of good information as to whether or not your horse is at risk for a repeat due to dietary stresses. Founder can and does happen from stress and injury as well!

JMHO,
Chris Pennington




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