Re: Starved horses

["Susan Evans Garlinghouse" <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>]

>Actually Susan, I don't think that is true-though I have not looked at the
>starvation literature recently. Carolyn Stull and Ann Rodiek at Cal Poly
>have been doing really neat research on feeding starved horses lately and
>may be able to shed more light. It is my impression that you can bring them
>back, though it takes a long time. Cellular atrophy is not necessarily the
>same as cellular death.

I'll look it up and let y'all know.  My understanding was that once it got
to the point of cartilage tissues breaking down, you wouldn't be able to
bring them back 100%, but starving them to that point is pretty extreme.
Possibly there's a difference between energy starvation and long-term
protein starvation...?

Susan G

P.S.  Somebody let me know where all this nice, sandy loam is...all I've
been riding over recently is rocks. :-)



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