RE: FILLY w/PUFFY LEGS

["Snodgrass, Bonnie" <snodgrab@ncr.disa.mil>]

Are there Bracken Ferns out in that field? Some horses like the way they
taste and will eat them but they are poisonous. Not sure of exact reactions
that can be expected from ingestion, only recall a  friends horse having a
problem with fern poisoning years ago.

Bonnie Snodgrass
Southern Maryland

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	SUSAN WILLIS [SMTP:SMW@SOS.NET]
> Sent:	Monday, September 13, 1999 6:30 PM
> To:	RIDECAMP@endurance.net
> Subject:	RC:  FILLY w/PUFFY LEGS
> 
> 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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