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If corn plants were poisonous, we'd have a country full of dead  
horses every summer. One of the fodder crops is something that they  
call 'garawa' here and it only took me ten years to find out that  
this is simply corn planted too closely together to develop really  
thick stalks and lots of corn. This is one of the main summer fodders  
in Egypt and my horses adore it, although the summer feed of choice  
in the paddocks is a tall grass that I'm still working on  
identifying. But I've had to do some serious 'Let's be good to our  
neighbours' training in teaching them not to snatch at the corn and  
garawa as we go on narrow paths through the fields.  They are pretty  
good at knowing it's ok to eat the grass at the side of the path but  
not the crops.

In August/September we have the date harvest here and if you want to  
see horses go nuts for fruit, fresh dates off the tree are the best.  
Many of my older horses are quite proficient in spitting out the  
seeds, but when ground, those seeds are a pretty good high protein  
feed and can be even used as a supplement to/substitute for flour.

I like Susan's rule....just wish we had a garbage disposal here. Have  
to make due with the dogs, horses, donkeys, and chickens, and with  
that selection there isn't much that goes into the trash.

Maryanne
Cairo


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