Re: RC: Re: tie ups and carbs

[Teddy Lancaster <teddy@runningbear.com>]

Depends greatly on what KIND of alfalfa....I am on the east coast and have feed
60-80% alfalfa for 20 years with NO problems...even when I RACED....I did have a
big time tie-up, tho, when I left my horses with a friend for the Pan Am in
1997, then went to a ride in Montana on the way home...My mare tied up
badly...turned out she had straight west coast alfalfa for nearly a week and
then I put her back on what I had from the East....too much change in diet...TOO
much calcium, then a sudden deprivation in comparison just a few days before the
ride.

Looking back it was all so simple.....

Teddy

GESA BRINKS wrote:

> My 1/2 arab/appaloosa mare ties up on alfalfa.  Took me awhile and some
> detective work to figure it out.  She even tied up showing heat to a gelding
> next to her. (that was embarassing and frightening).  She had been on
> alfalfa her entire life.  She is the reason I became interested in proper
> nutrition for equines.  Havent fed the stuff in over 9 years.  Well, except
> for a little in a forage mix hay.  Can we hear a little more on the evils of
> the alfalfa diet???    Thanks.  gesa n clovis
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tivers@aol.com <Tivers@aol.com>
> To: guest@endurance.net <guest@endurance.net>; ridecamp@endurance.net
> <ridecamp@endurance.net>
> Date: Friday, December 17, 1999 4:48 PM
> Subject: RC: tie ups and carbs
>
> >In a message dated 12/17/99 11:13:18 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> >guest@endurance.net writes:
> >
> ><< patty scott pssrs@aol.com
> > Hey since you are on the subject.  I have a horse who will tie up before
> he
> >gets to the end of our driveway if he gets an=
> > y "sweet feed" at all.  When we withheld all sweet feeds he has never
> >displayed any tie ups (completed 2 75 milers last y=
> > ear.)
> > Now, sweet feed is simple carbs how does that fgure in on "treating" tie
> ups
> >with carbs?
> >  >>
> >
> >It's the chromium.
> >
> >ti
> >
> >
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