Re: Tying up

["Michelle Rowe" <michrowe@frontier.net>]

Barbara, is your filly on the nervous side?  I just read an article about
tying up that says it's most likely associated with nervous fillies in
training.  The article does mention keeping the horse is a large turnout and
reducing stress as important in preventing further tie-up episodes.  Looks
like there are at least two types of chronic tying-up, though.  One directly
related to glycogen usage - this is the form that's been linked to some QH
lines.  The other form does not seem to have a well-known cause, but it's
the one typically associated with nervous fillies.  Both types are said to
respond to continuing exercise and balancing the diet.  There was mention in
another article of NOT feeding oats to horses that tie-up, as too much
carbohydrate may contribute to the problem.

Here are the two articles.  If you wade through the first one, there are
some recommendations for helping a horse to NOT tie-up.  The second one was
apparently a handout from a nutritional lecture and just has the main bullet
points.

http://63.80.222.118/library/archive/proceedings/sc97/03/index.html
Exertional Rhabdomyolysis in The Horse

http://63.80.222.118/library/archive/proceedings/sc95/handouts/handout1.html
EQUINE RHABDOMYOLYSIS SYNDROME


m
(aka michelle rowe)
colorado
http://www.redwrench.com
----- Original Message -----
From: <BMcCrary27@aol.com>
To: <Lyoness@castlenet.com>
Cc: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 9:14 AM
Subject: RC: Tying up


> In a message dated 12/17/1999 4:37:09 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> Lyoness@Castlenet.com writes:
>
> << Don't I
>  remember reading several articles about a year ago on the likelihood
>  that Tying Up was genetically based rather than chemically based? I
>  vaguely recall a study by the AQHA which traced the typing up syndrome
>  to one or two QH sires.  I'm sorry I don't remember more, but I'm sure
>  our resident experts will. >>
>
> I have a 3/4 Arab mare who has tied up several times.  I tried feeding
MSM, I
> tried eliminating alfalfa hay, but the conclusion I have come to with this
> particular mare is:
>
> 1)  She's female, thus predisposing her to tie-up more than if she were
male.
>  (Comments on this theory are welcome).
> 2)  She hasn't tied up on a ride if I follow two practices religiously:
> First, keep her in a paddock or pasture, so that she can move around a
lot.
> When she's kept in a small run, I can just about count on a tie-up.  And
> second, make certain she is THOROUGHLY warmed up before she goes into her
> fast working trot or climbs a hill of any size.
>
> Her diet consists of half alfalfa hay and half oat hay, nothing else.  I
> don't compete regularly, but she can tie-up on just a rountine
conditioning
> or brisk pleasure ride if I don't follow the two steps above.
>
> I would be interested in input from any source, but please --- not too
> technical.  I deal better with the simplest explanation possible.
Chemistry
> was never my best subject.
>
> Barbara
>
>
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