1stclassalan
Well-Known Member
Now my old mum is convinced that you can catch a cold waiting at a bus stop - particularly if you've rushed out after washing your hair or had a recent bath but come on ...... this is 2010 not 1710 ..... you wouldn't expect a modern doctor to bleed you to effect a cure.
So why are there reports in last week's H & H about horses having colic problems because they've been kept in during the bad weather with the inference that the lack of movement and restricted water has caused their guts to impact. This report is of course dimetrically opposed but another feature a bit further in that says horses have evolved to do with water when they have to!
As far as I understand, the gut of all mammals works much like an earthworm moves - it is automatic and systematic - just as breathing and heartbeat are.
It may well be that changes to diet can introduce imbalances in the body chemicals that control that movement but to blandly state that restricted access to water will do it is wrong.
I also have a strong opinion that the idea of a rolling horse twisting a gut is also one of the biggest myths - if the rolling horse has one - it is the cause of the rolling and not the other way about.
Discuss.
So why are there reports in last week's H & H about horses having colic problems because they've been kept in during the bad weather with the inference that the lack of movement and restricted water has caused their guts to impact. This report is of course dimetrically opposed but another feature a bit further in that says horses have evolved to do with water when they have to!
As far as I understand, the gut of all mammals works much like an earthworm moves - it is automatic and systematic - just as breathing and heartbeat are.
It may well be that changes to diet can introduce imbalances in the body chemicals that control that movement but to blandly state that restricted access to water will do it is wrong.
I also have a strong opinion that the idea of a rolling horse twisting a gut is also one of the biggest myths - if the rolling horse has one - it is the cause of the rolling and not the other way about.
Discuss.
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