clover-belated

["guest@endurance.net" <guest@endurance.net>]

e.tully et-albert@msn.com
Hey folks, we are jumping to conclusions without knowing the facts.  How much clover do you think is eatable in a 12 x 12 pen when a horse is manuring, peeing, pawing and trodding on it?  Do you really want to think this is what causes the Biltmore Syndrome?  
We need to question the owners of the horses that had problems.  I'm sure they can list a couple of factors that are far more beliveable than a small quantity of clover.
How about horses standing in pens, some with partial or full winter coats (some), the sun beating down on them the whole day before the ride. Be aware there is a breeze, although you wouldn't know it unless you stood in the shade.  This breeze is drying the sweat off of our horses as fast as they can produce it. How many horses were really in an electrolyte deficit and we didn't know it?  My own was tested to be fine and still had a problem.  How fast are these tests calibrated?  I'm not suggesting this is the only problem.  I'm saying this coupled with one or two other, even smaller problems, can set our horse up for the big problem.