Re: RC: Re: Tying up

[Teddy Lancaster <Teddy@runningbear.com>]

As has been said a MILLION times...much depends on WHERE you live and WHAT KIND
of alfalfa and how much you are feeding....

Teddy (in Ohio where alfalfa is NOT rich and who feeds it ALL YEAR with NO
problems)

Cathy Pritchett wrote:

> > Dear Barbara;
> > My older mare, Teza, had a chronic history of tying up.  She finally
> > went right when I took alfalfa out of her diet and fed her bermuda grass
> > exclusively.  Now that she's not competing and she is out on five plus
> > hilly acres, she can tolerate a bit of alfalfa, but still gets primarily
> > forage and good oat hay, some beet pulp.
> > Katee
>
> With the spread of the HYPP gene in the QH pool, I have been told that one
> of the ways to manage it is the total elimination of alfalfa from the horses
> diet.  Since breeders are having to manage these horses differently, they
> are managing all of their horses differently and one breeder told me that
> they are having fewer tie up problems in all of their horses.  Now, I don't
> know if this is just one breeder and one vet or if there is some scientific
> basis in this, or if it is valid how much of it relates to muscle type, but
> it might bear some looking at if you have tying up problems.
> Cathy
>
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