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Jody, how many of those vets treat extreme performance horses like  
ours and if so what's the proportion of their practice?

a.e. happened to a friend, Karen Steenhof and her great horse Ambers  
Thorn.   The theory of a little bit of poison every day bugs me  
conceptually, too.

Lynne
recent pretty pix, and there is an Arab in there, Caleyndar:
 <http://www.photo.lynnesite.com/gallery/2101433>


On Nov 8, 2006, at 2:58 PM, Jody Rogers-Buttram wrote:

> I agree with Angie.  I know people that use it...I have good  
> friends that are vets that swear by it.  But, I am not going to go  
> there.  I may be jinxing myself, but like Angie (knock on wood) I  
> haven't had that problem either and I have never used it.
>
> Jody  ( who will go home now, find 6 coliced horses and have to eat  
> her words  )
>
> rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > It is odd that more people don't use it? Two words:
> > anterior enteritis> > Implicated in *endurance horse* colics. Enough
> cases that I'll
> > never > use it for a competing horse.
> > > YMMV, of course.
> > > Lynne
>
> Amen! Someone told me how wonderful it was because the company had  
> paid
> for TWO colic surgeries for her. Well...I've had NO colic surgeries  
> not
> using it. I think I like that better. I've been amazed how many of the
> riders who have the *weird* sort of unexplainable, "everything else on
> the horse was fine" type colics admitted they used daily wormer when I
> asked. You couldn't give it to me.
>
> Angie

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