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- From: tracy@scoraz.resp-sci.arizona.edu (Tracy Scheinkman)
- Newsgroups: rec.equestrian
- Subject: update on filly with joint ill
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.045753.11136@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 04:57:53 GMT
- Sender: news@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu
- Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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- Just to refresh your memories, a friend and I purchased a sick
- filly two weeks ago. She is about 9 months old and has been having
- trouble with swollen joints, fever, and soreness since she was 3 months
- old.
- We have had her for two weeks and put her on a strict bermuda
- grass diet when we got her. Since then her temperature has dropped down
- to almost normal, the swelling has gone down, and she is much less sore.
- Also she has put on weight and is filling out (which many people think
- a horse can't do on bermuda grass hay) and looks very happy. She has
- really been enjoying the attention she has been getting and had a blast
- getting her first bath yesterday. She really loved being scrubbed
- and brushed and combed.
- We believe her problems stem from epiphysitis complicated by an
- allergy to alfalfa hay or the mold that tends to grow on alfalfa hay. If
- we can comfirm our suspicions then we will put her on a mineral supplement
- for epiphysitis.
-
- Tracy and everybody
-