Re: Old Horse

[BMcCrary27@aol.com]

In a message dated 11/11/98 4:10:01 AM Pacific Standard Time,
snodgrab@ncr.disa.mil writes:

<< Buy alfalfa pellets and soak them
 soft with water before feeding them to the old guy. this will give him a new
 lease on life. They don't require chewing this way but are still hay. After
 all, your horse should still be eating largely hay, not grain. Did this for
 one old boarder who couldn't swallow hay well because of tumors in his
 throat and a big TB that I owned in Hawaii that broke his lower jaw. That
 horse ate mush for three months. He literally had to suck down slurry for
 the first couple of weeks. >>

We did this same thing for a cow that had a paralysis of the jaw.  She
couldn't chew, but she surely could slurp up slurry made of complete ration
horse pellets.  

BMc