[RC] Black rubber buckets & feed tubs - Susan Favro
I received an e-mail this morning from a gal regarding
petroleum toxicity causing mares to not settle after breeding. Since we have
three geldings, we don’t have much of a breeding program <sigh of
relief>, but the source of the petroleum toxicity concerns me. Here’s
a quote from the e-mail I received:
>
> The mare owner mailed the
plucked mane hair to my Doc friend. When it was
> tested, it showed that there
was petroleum toxicity in the hair. The mare
> owner was confused since she
did not think the mare had been near anything
> with petroleum.
Suddenly she realized that she had noticed that when she
> mixed
> corn oil in her mare's food, which she had started doing a few
months
> earlier to prepare for the
pregnancy, the oil seemed to affect the old black
> rubber
> bucket in which she was mixing
and feeding the food. Research showed that
> the rubber buckets you
get for farm use are synthetic rubber, made from
> petroleum.
>
> A check of the research done on
petroleum toxicity indicated that
> reproductive hormone problems,
and therefore infertility, are one of the most
> common
> symptoms of this type of
toxicity! Estrogen, especially, is very strongly
> affected by this kind of
poisoning.
>
Has anybody else heard of the rubber buckets causing
petroleum toxicity because of an interaction with feed, supplements and/or corn
oil?
…S
Susan Favro
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