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Cushings has some of those symptoms espcially as she is older, could be many 
things, but may be Cushings onset.






> From: Maryanne Stroud Gabbani <msgabbani@xxxxxxx>
> To: Ridecamp <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Equine-L <EQUINE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [RC]   Coat and condition questions
> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 10:44:07 +0200
>
> Having moved my horses to paddocks and out of boxes seems to have agreed 
> tremendously with all of them.  They have gained weight and are very happy, 
> but I'm a bit concerned still about my favourite mare, Dory.  She's a 
> copper chestnut who began getting white hairs sprinkled through her coat 
> over the last few years.  Her coat is never thick as she's pretty much all 
> Arab, but this spring I notice that it seems thinner than usual and rather 
> dull in colour/texture.  She's always had a tendency to a dry skin and it's 
> quite dry in places.  She's gained condition more than most of the others 
> as she was quite thin before, and she has plenty of energy.  We enjoyed an 
> hour and a half fast trot around the farms yesterday and she would have 
> done most of it at a canter if allowed.  I'm trying to figure out if we 
> have some sort of nutritional deficiency here or a hormonal problem????  We 
> only have the most rudimentary of labs, so most of my fixes are trial and 
> error. Their diet is a free choice mix of fresh alfalfa and rice hay with 
> additional soaked barley, a bit of bran and chopped wheat hay, and the 
> grass in the paddock. I'm going to add some corn oil to Dory's food and to 
> my old lady Nimbus's (she's in her late 20's and not keeping the weight on 
> so well anymore).  Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>
> Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
> Cairo, Egypt
> www.ratbusters.net
> "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth with 
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> always long to return." --Leonardo da Vinci
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