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Thanks so much everyone!  Maybe a Truth or Myth article needs to be 
written.   :-)

Kathy SE

Susan E. Garlinghouse, DVM wrote:
> > I was talking with some friends and was told just yesterday that an 'old 
> > timer' that one of the ladies knows insists to NEVER give hay while 
> > trailering. That is, do not put hay in front of the horse while you are 
> > driving.  Stopping and giving hay is fine.  He (over 70 years of 
> > experience) 'knows' that horses MIGHT colic if eating hay while 
> > traveling.  Something about horses possibly getting a type of motion 
> > sickness like we do, eating and not being able to burp.
> >     
>
> I'm with Heidi and everyone else on this, I'd be more worried about
> depriving a GI tract evolved to be eating more or less continuously than I
> am about causing colic by feeding hay during travel.
>
> The only time I might not feed in a trailer would be if the trailer was too
> short, and the horse unable to stretch his neck out to cough and clear his
> airways.  Not doing so, he's more likely to have 'issues' with respiratory
> issues; and also potentially more at risk of an esophageal obstruction
> (choke)---which isn't a respiratory problem, but often a horse can clear it
> himself (or prevent it altogether) if his head and neck are in a natural
> position while eating.
>
> I also strongly prefer feeding hay wet in the trailer---just that much less
> dust that needs to be cleared out of the respiratory system.  However, wet
> hay will start to mold very quickly if you leave it in there for days and
> don't take it out and dump it and then let the hay bag dry out well.
>
> Frank, I'll see your "never put water on a hot horse" and raise you "feeding
> them corn in the winter helps keep them warm".
>
> Susan Garlinghouse, DVM
>
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