Re: garlic

["C.M.Newell" <reshan@deyr.ultranet.com>]

At 11:20 AM 2/8/99 -0700, you wrote:
>RICMARC@aol.com wrote: i did everything for him, a
>> friend suggested garlic. I put him right on it at the
>> beginning ride season last year and no more scaby legs.
>> He now gets it all the time, 
>
>Did I read/hear somewhere that horses getting garlic for long periods of
>time become anemic?

	Garlic, as well as other members of the Allium family, can cause Heinz
body anemia in horses and cattle. 
	The only numbers I have seen are for acute toxicity; however, I would be
careful of supplemementing long-term with high levels of garlic or garlic
powder.
			--CMNewell, DVM