RE: Glucosamine & Condroitin

["Kathy Mayeda" <kathy_mayeda@atce.com>]

Yep, I don't feed these supplements, but I would have no problem
with feeding these to my geldings if breeding was the only argument!


K.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tara Wheeler [mailto:harpy@io.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 10:07 PM
To: ridecamp-d@endurance.net
Subject: Re: Glucosamine & Condroitin


Lif wrote:


If you put a horse on CS / GAGS supplementation early on, you'll never
know 
if they really needed them or not.  If they *did* need them and this
horse 
is used for breeding, then from a breeder's point of view this is the
first 
step toward creating a situation where CS / GAGS supplementation could 
become a *necessary* preventative.  In other words, there's a risk here
of 
creating the problem we're trying to avoid.



Allright.   Finally, a reason for not using CS/ GAGS supplements that I
can understand.

Improvement of the breed is certainly a noble cause.

But for those of us with one horse, and out of the gene pool to boot,
I'd still like to use the CS/ GAGS and get on with my life.

Breeding horses is a game much too expensive for me.  The idea of being
able to breed for horses that are iron sound all the time is a
wonderful, magnificent idea.

And maybe someday I might win the lottery and be able to afford one and
support this ideal view.

As it is, I'm in the ex-race horse price range and looking for
everything I can to get along with a horse that didn't have all the
advantages from before it's very conception.