ILuvCowparsely
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! School holidays already?
<~~ Would love to be a kid again and go back in time so she could spend all the time with her father and mother again and re live my life.
! School holidays already?
Right so your accusing Dr. Teresa Hollands, Internationally renowned Equine Nutritionist. To sell food huh?? Taring all nutrition's with the same brush? You have no proof about what your saying and when I spoke to her she did not force me to use or sell D&H food. That is just your unbiased opinion on this matter for what it's worth.
I would rather ask an Equine Nutrition who is more often than not qualified than just a random person on a public forum and would never ask anyone what to feed my horse, since they know nothing about it's breed, foibles, quirks, work load, work regime etc, and I would not disclose that here.. I have had very good advice in the past with my questions a diet for a particular horse and if they suggest nuts and chaff for example. They are not holding a gun to my head, so it is up to me if I buy their chaff or another brand or come up with my own diet.
Their job is to sell you as much feed as they possibly can, nothing else.
If the horse is overweight then I would be keeping it on a bare paddock and feeding it stemmy, soaked hay, perhaps with straw mixed in. Access to a mineralised salt block of course, but nothing else.
Overweight youngstock are prone to a myriad of developmental problems and later unsoundness and metabolic conditions. It is vital that you get the horse's weight under control as soon as possible.
Reread, then re-write in English. I don't think you meant to say what you said.
Nutritionists which are employed by feed companies are employed to give feed advice and to push their own brand. If you want an independent opinion, you need to go to an independent nutritionist.
Oh Vet school - so you are a vet then?
Why is this thread taking such a nasty (and quite silly) tone?
Reread, then re-write in English. I don't think you meant to say what you said.
Nutritionists which are employed by feed companies are employed to give feed advice and to push their own brand. If you want an independent opinion, you need to go to an independent nutritionist.
I would rather ask an Equine Nutrition who is more often than not qualified than just a random person on a public forum
Why is this thread taking such a nasty (and quite silly) tone? Not that it's likely to interest anyone, but just so that you can rest easy: actually I have 2 years of vet school, but not at Ft Collins. I dropped out due to a family bereavement and never returned to college. I didn't say I attended Ft Collins, I facilitated the practical trials of a study on mineral take up and ration formulation at my stud farm in co-operation with the faculty (the head of the department was taking lessons from me at the time...riding lessons just in case there is any ambiguity). Anything else you'd like to know?
Just asking that's all, I have veterinary training too as a qualified SA vet nurse, it was the way you brought it up. Sorry to hear of your bereavement, and I don't doubt that you know more about horsemanship than I ever will, but I do get peeved when people say they have studied veterinary medicine whilst ommiting the fact that they never qualified