Re: RC: ti's "article"

[Tivers@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/27/99 12:54:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
ralston@AESOP.RUTGERS.EDU writes:

<< >Cites, please. I've encountered folks who've fed no hay or grass to an
entire
 >stable with no ill effects. Crazy? Maybe. Dead horses? No.
 
 This was in reference to the risk of high grai rations. I have already
 provided a long list of references-check the archives...Also, ti, you are
 probably leaving out a significant detail in the statement above-were they
 fed NO roughage at all? It is possible and has been done, but the
 scientific evidence has repeatedly shown a low fibre diet to be a
 significant risk factor in colic! >>


Unlike you, I say precisely what I mean to say. These horses were fed no hay.
However, there is roughage in grain, of course. A lot of it. Again, I would
like to read the paper(s) that cite a high grain diet, in and of itself, as a
cause of colic. A gigantic single feeding of grain is another thing--but a
steady incrementally fed diet of grain, properly balanced with vitamins and
minerals, has never been demonstrated to cause colic in a healthy horse that I
know of. 

Rather than volumes of spray and pray spewage, a simple summary quote and
author/publication/date will convince me.

ti 


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