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- From: hannah@pomponio.ai.sri.com (Marsha Jo Hannah)
- Newsgroups: rec.equestrian
- Subject: Re: Carnivorous horse?
- Message-ID: <HANNAH.92Dec21111509@pomponio.ai.sri.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 19:15:09 GMT
- References: <BzFs9K.EpC@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca>
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- Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
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- In-reply-to: rmvale@watnow.uwaterloo.ca's message of 18 Dec 92 03:56:07 GMT
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- In article <BzFs9K.EpC@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca> rmvale@watnow.uwaterloo.ca (Ruth Vale) writes:
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- One of our mares has taken a likely to eating dog food - usually
- because its the first thing she sees, on the way to her stall, that
- looks like her supper. She's a *very* easy keeper, about 150 lbs.
- overweight.... She's
- the kind of horse that doesn't know when to stop eating, including
- bad hay or anything else that shows up in front of her face.
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- Ruth
-
- I suspect it depends on what kind of dog food and how much she gets.
- Cheap dog kibble is mostly grain and fats, which should only make her
- fatter; the more expensive brands are more likely to contain meat, or
- at least meat byproducts. One of my equine magazines (can't remember
- exactly which one---maybe the donkey magazine?) recently issued a
- strong caution against letting the critters have *any* dog food. The
- equine digestive system is set up for plant products; introducing
- animal products in the absence of proper intestinal flora and fauna
- for digesting same can lead to digestion biproducts which cause colic
- or founder. The fact that this mare is a super-easy keeper and a
- "vacuum cleaner" raises red flags for me. Maybe you can kludge up a
- "creep feeder" that the dog can eat out of, but the horse can't?
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- Marsha Jo Hannah Murphy must have been a horseman--
- La Honda, CA anything that can go wrong, will!
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