Re: RC: no forage?

[Tivers@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/21/99 8:19:00 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
dluehosh@juno.com writes:

<< Well, apparently they must do it to some extent- I happen to be reading
 Raswan's book about his tr\ip to the desert ( Drinkers of the Wind) (and
 his adventures among the Arab tribes) and apparently the horses made do
 with camel's milk a lot of the time... and that is just amazing to me
 until i think that the milk is probably pretty well balanced... of course
 the horses were emaciated ... but they did do a lot of mileage in
 desert...  >>


Impossible. Some expert here said dead horse in 2 1/2 months without forage. 
Where did they bury all those milk-drinking desert horses?

Virtually all desert animals are emaciated--there ain't much to eat out there 
in that sea of sand.

ti 


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