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- From: teresa@astro.as.arizona.edu (Teresa Bippert-Plymate)
- Newsgroups: rec.equestrian
- Subject: Re: ?Hage?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.143912.16528@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 14:39:12 GMT
- References: <30193@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Sender: Teresa Bippert-Plymate
- Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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- In article <30193@oasys.dt.navy.mil> mccloske@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Diane McCloskey) writes:
- >I'm very new at all this horse stuff(just bought my first horse 3 mo's
- >ago) and just started reading rec.equestrian 3 days ago. And really
- >what is hage? ugly woman?
-
- Umm, not quite! It is a *fermented* hay, though not silage. The hay is cured
- as normal, except it is taken up while it still has a higher moisture content,
- and bagged into hermetically-sealed bags with yeast culture. It looks like peat
- moss and smells like beer. The higher moisture content has the effect of it
- being more like grass than hay, so consequently there are fewer incidences of
- impaction and sand colics. And it is VERY good for horses with respiratory
- problems, as the dust and mold associated with hay are not found. The yeast
- supplies lots of B-vitamins, and good gut bugs. There was an article in Equus
- magazine a couple of years ago on it, which gives a very good explanation and
- report on this feed. Any more questions, email me, as I feed it to my 2 guys
- and I like this feed a lot!
-
- Teresa
- Leo the QH
- Arrusito *el caballo espanol*
-