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!