FILLY w/PUFFY LEGS

[SUSAN WILLIS <SMW@SOS.NET>]

Hi all,

My darling endurance prospect came in for her evening feed last Saturday
with very stocked up hind legs - both legs looked like stove pipes from
the hock down with no definition. Firm, not soft filling. She's been out
on a new section of pasture that has good grass, but also blackberry
bushes, ferns, etc as it is a semi-wooded hillside. She's an oddball in
that she will eat anything green in front of her face, and she's
definately NOT starving!!

I kept her in the paddock for two days on just local hay - the swelling
is gone today, but I am very leery about putting her back out there
until I know what caused this. And short of taking a sample of every
non-grass plant in to my local extension office I have no way to
identify possible toxic plants. She was out there with my older 8 year
old gelding, who seems to be just fine, but he doesn't have the
wandering taste buds that my filly has.......

Any ideas? Should I be concerned with the sudden swelling? Would this
preclude her from future distance work?

Susan


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