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Re: [RC] molasses - was tying up question (long) - csimmons88Good comment. My horse is 31 and in her teens was so sensitive to alfalfa & alfmo that she would 'tie up' at the walk within a couple miles of the trailer or as soon as we started up a slight inclinel. Eliminating alfalfa & sweat feed instantly eliminated the problem. She's done fine on oat hay or grass/grain combo. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David LeBlanc" <dleblanc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "'Susan Garlinghouse'" <suendavid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "'David & Maggie'" <maggieszoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "'DreamWeaver'" <nvrider@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 12:42 AM Subject: RE: [RC] molasses - was tying up question (long) Susan said: Supposedly, horses don't get diabetes, but there's starting to be a lot of evidence that horses are variably insulin-resistant, which translates to intolerance to sugars ---including that in molasses, depending on the type and amount used. Some horses that metabolize and utilize sugars just dandy can gobble down grain and molasses and glycogen loaders by the truckload, feel just great and go conquer the world without turning a hair. The problem IMO is that not every horse can do that---a lot of horses *are* insulin-resistant, meaning they can eat sugars, get a sky-high blood glucose reading and *feel* like they can conquer the world---but because the glucose isn't getting into the muscle cells where it belongs, and because the high glucose has shut down fatty acid lipolysis, then those horses' Rocket Fuel Factor is writing checks that the body can't cash. And I wonder if that's a factor in at least *some* of the crashes that occur. Not all. Maybe just some. Maybe in others, it just shows up as being prone to tying up, being a certifiable butthead, or just more likely to run themselves into the ground and blow their legs apart at the knees. And Karen said: "He is fun to ride when he's in control, but it just makes me mad at him when he's zinging off the walls and orbiting and levitating his way down the trail..." So just curious - what do you recommend for the horse that zings off the walls while levitating down the trail? BTW, we had a horse tie up 3 years ago, we took him off sweet feed entirely, also religeously warm him up, and haven't had a problem since. Since we had Sarah do his teeth correctly, we haven't had a problem keeping weight on him either. I tend to suspect that paying attention to teeth and feeding more of the right foods instead of high calorie density foods is a better approach, but I have a very small sample size. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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