Re: Garlic

["Joy H Mahler" <joym@visi.net>]

Trish,

It took over a week for the horses to ignore the smell of the garlic in the
feed, it still takes my breath...I started out with a very small amount in a
pound or so of grain, and slowly increased it when their bucket was empty
for the next feeding.  If you stay an watch them eat they will win and you
will change the bucket, so just leave as though everything's normal and they
will think so too.

Joy

----- Original Message -----
From: <Trishmare7@aol.com>
To: <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>; <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 10:17 AM
Subject: RC: Garlic


> This is great to know Lif, especially in buggy, low selenium areas like
> Michigan.  But what I'd like to know is how do you get the horses to EAT
the
> durn stuff!  I've got a huge tub of Springtime's garlic sitting in the
house,
> and unless I put so little in the feed I can't see that it could be
> effective, the horse's turn their noses up.  David, particularly . . . and
> HE'S the one I primarily bought it for!
>
> Trish & King David,
> Grand Blanc, Michigan
>
> << For those of you who feed garlic to your horses as a supplement for
bugs
>  etc. , here's a snip from RealAge.com, health news for humans.  It may or
>  may not apply to horses, but it's food for thought, so to speak, if you
>  feed garlic & another supplement with selenium.  Lif
>
>  >What's less well known is that garlic gets much of its goodness from its
>  >high selenium content, a trace mineral that has been heralded for its
>  >antioxidant and cancer-fighting properties. In fact, if you load your
>  >meals with lots of garlic, you shouldn't need to add a selenium
supplement
>  >to your diet. >>
>
>
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