Re: RE: sweet potato ok for horses?

["Susan Garlinghouse" <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>]

Right now is the height of sugar beet harvest season and sure enough, there
are about 100 tons piled in an enormous mountain about 200 yards from my
house.  I cut it up into little chunks and my horses think they've died and
gone to heaven.  I figure petty larceny is fair payment for when they start
loading the sugar beets day and night into trucks---you can hear the
"thunder" for miles.  But the good news is that my dogs are totally
desensitized to thunderstorms. <g>

susan g
----- Original Message -----
From: Maryanne Stroud Gabbani <maryanne@ratbusters.net>
To: a hurley <juno501@yahoo.com>
Cc: Ridecamp <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 12:39 AM
Subject: RC: RE: sweet potato ok for horses?


> Carrots get very woody and expensive in Egypt during the summer and sweet
> potatoes are the treat of choice along with watermelon. I have a friend
> whose stallion loves bananas and my horses think that cucumbers are a real
> treat. Then, of course, it's currently date season and the fresh crunchy
> dates are the absolute end for all the horses, plus having an amazing
amount
> of minerals. But we are a backward country here <G> so I can buy the
produce
> straight off the farms around the stable and know that there is no wax or
> other cosmetic stuff and very little pesticide (lots of little brown bug
> marks).
>
> Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
> Cairo, Egypt
> gabbani@starnet.com.eg
> www.ratbusters.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: a hurley [mailto:juno501@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 1:49 AM
> To: ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: RC: sweet potato ok for horses?
>
>
> Does anyone know of a site (or can one of the
> nutrition experts or vets comment) about what fruits
> and vegetables are ok for horses?  For example  - are
> uncooked sweet potatos, melons ok? I have fed
> watermelon to the horses for years as they love it but
> am now curious about other fruits and vegetables. This
> would be as a treat, not as a major component of the
> diet.
>
> stasia
>
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