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Re: Alfalfa and enteroliths

Lauren Horn (fourhorn@fea.net)
Tue, 21 Oct 1997 09:07:11 -0700

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MS LOUISE D BURTON wrote:
The size of a man's fist
> caught in the small intestine near the stomach (pyloric sphyncter). What
> was it? PERSIMMONS!! Persimmons have a gluelike substance that doesn't
> digest.
> So,if you have persimmons, don't let your horses eat them!!

Are you saying the enterolith was the persimmon or was caused by the
persimmon? I find it hard to believe that a horse cannot digest a
persimmon. People eat them all the time. Where did you hear that
persimmons have a glue-like substance? Any documentation?

Lauren

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