Re: RE: Horses and deer

["Dyane Smith" <sunibey@sisqtel.net>]

Heidi,
What's the solution?
Dyane
N. Ca

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To: <forbes@mountainmax.net>; <ribbitttreefrog@yahoo.com>
Cc: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 9:24 AM
Subject: RC: RE: Horses and deer


> In a message dated 11/11/99 5:52:57 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> forbes@mountainmax.net writes:
>
> << I beg to differ.  While I love the deer and elk herds that grace out
yard
>  all winter (I counted 38 elk within a 100 yd. radius one morning), that
>  exposure also also subjects them to DEER LICE that like to hop onto your
>  horses.  >>
>
> Wildlife can also be a source of such diseases as leptospirosis and
> brucellosis.  My stallion Abu Ben Surrabu is now totally blind after a
> 10-year fight with periodic ophthalmia secondary to leptospirosis.  He
spent
> two years at our family ranch in central Idaho as a young horse and
> contracted it there.  Our cattle are all vaccinated, so the deer and elk
that
> mingle with the livestock are the likely source.
>
> Heidi
>
>
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