Re: RC: no forage?

[Teddy Lancaster <teddy@runningbear.com>]

It must be that all real arabians (the horses) must in fact be part
camel..perhaps generations of careful breeding has hidden the conformation of the
camel.  After seeing the middle east with my own eyes, it is the only possible
explanation how any horses could have survived in that awful terrain and climate.

Teddy

Tivers@aol.com wrote:

> 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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