Jeffrey M. Edelson V.M.D.
Horses should eat only what
horses normally eat. Dried hay
or grass pasture, clean oats, or
commercial horse feed and fresh
water. Too often our good inten
tions or lack of knowledge
results in disaster.
Horses have very sensitive
intestinal systems and cannot
tolerate change. Inadvertent
change comes from the introduc
tion of strange materials or
when someone feeds the wrong
food or too much of anything. It
is also worse when the horse
gets loose and eats too much.
The following items have
resulted in the foolish loss of no
less than 30 horses in our prac
tice in 1999. Most of these exam
ples happen with regularity and
all too often result in severe
sickness and/or death from colic,
which shows up as a severe
bellyache with pawing the
ground as a sign of pain to
rolling violently; to foundering
which is a circulatory problem
resulting in severe changes to
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Equine Alert To Avoid Disaster
the feet.
The “Ag Bag”-the horses that
get loose and get into silage
stored in the Ag Bags or other
storage systems and expose
horses to feed stuff they are not
used to. Silage is a form of fer
menting or mildly decaying
plant material that is very high
in Botulism spores. Horses
affected with Botulism are
almost, assured of the slow death
unless they have been vaccinat
ed against Botulism. Muscles do
not work because the botulism
toxin blocks the nerve pathway.
The horse dies from not being
able to swallow and breathe.
The pasture is a dumping
ground for junk. Not only the
metal and glass kind that’s obvi
ously a danger, but the plant
kind also. Each year the good
intentioned neighbor or family
member puts over the fence
grass clippings, vines, ewe
branch clippings, watermelon
rines, egg shells, and anything
else imaginable. Horses are curi
ous and they tend to nibble.
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Molds are a disaster when
they are in the food supply.
Horses usually cannot tolerate
the molds and that can cause
disaster ending in colic or
founder. Any hay or grain that is
moldy should be discarded. A
less common thought of mold
comes from grass clippings or
corn husks and cobs. These
materials start to ferment with-
in an hour after being cut from
the yard and piled in the hot
sun. Com on the cob for dinner
Northeast
BOSTON, Mass. Erik
Rasmussen, Market Adminis
trator for the Northeast Market
ing Area, has announced that
the statistical uniform price for
February 2000 is $12.21 per
hundredweight or $1.05 per
gallon for milk delivered to
plants located in Suffolk
County, Mass.
The statistical uniform price
is the benchmark minimum pro
ducer blend price paid to dairy
farmers, prior to allowable de
ductions, for milk containing 3.5
percent butterfat, 2.99 percent
protein, and 5.69 percent other
solids. The price received by in
dividual dairy farmers will vary
as the component composition
of a farm’s milk differs from the
established benchmarks.
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starts with corn husks.
Every good intentioned
neighbor or household member
wants to “feed the horses” so a
pile of rapidly fermenting mate
rial ends up in the pasture. Tree
trimmings, piles of leaves or
evergreen branches can be a dis
aster. Japanese Ywe is a com
mon plant and trimmed regular
ly. A very large horse will usual
ly die with the trimmings still in
their mouth-the toxin is that
fast in its action.
Rasmussen also stated that
the producer price differential
(PPD) for February is $2.67 per
hundredweight for milk deliv
ered to plants located in Suffolk,
Mass. The February PPD is
$2.57 in New York, NY, and
$2.46 in Philadelphia.
The Class prices for milk
pooled in February are as fol
lows: Class I - $13.96 (Suffolk
Co., MA), Class II - $11.51,
Class 111 - $9.54, and Class IV -
$lO.BO. Had the Northeast
Order been in effect in 1999,
comparable class prices for Feb
ruary 1999 would have been:
Class I - $20.15, Class II -
$13.72, Class 111 - $11,335, and
Class IV - $12.71. The compo
nent values for February are
protein - $1.9849 per pound,
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Earlier this month we lost
three mares in their last
trimester pregnancies due to
“vines” from the garden that
were dumped into the pasture.
Death was extremely violent
and the loss to the farmer was
very costly since they were
prime breeding stock.
Alert all members on the
farm, kids and especially “good
intentioned neighbors” NOT to
put anything into the pasture,
not even the grass clippings and
corn husks/cobs. They can make
the horses very sick and even
kill them.
butterfat - $0.9588 per pound,
other solids - $0.0432 per pound,
and nonfat solids - $0.8565 per
pound.
Milk receipts from producers
totaled 2.034 billion pounds.
Class I utilization, milk pro
cessed as beverage milk, was
41.3 percent of producer milk
receipts.
Sets Swine
Meeting
ELIZABETH
TOWN (Lancaster
Co.) - White Oak Mills
has announced that
independent pork pro
ducers are invited to a
free White Oak Mills
2000 Swine Meeting,
“Competing in the
21st Century.”
The seminar will be
Wednesday, April 12,
from 9 a.m. to approx
imately 2:15 p.m. at
Wizard Catering’s
Acorn Farms
Conference Center,
Mount Joy.
Seminar topics will
include:
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• “Competing in
the 21st Century” at
9:30 a.m.
• “Sow Herd
Health Challenges” at
10 a.m.
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Health” or PQA
Certification at 11
a.m.
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Finishing
Advancements” at
12:45 p.m.
• “Using Pig
Postmortems as a Tool
for Understanding
Herd Health” at 1:30
p.m.
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White Oak Mills’
key speakers will be
Dale Dues and Dr.
Kevin Cera, both from
Akey Inc., Ohio, and
Dr. Dale Hendrickson,
Stoney Creek
Veterinary Services,
Indiana.
SPRING
GATE
24'
$ 12.95
Chet Hughes,
Lancaster County
extension, will lead
the 11 a.m. PQA certi
fication for producers
who are interested.
Registration begins
at 9 a.m. A pork barbe
cue lunch will be
served at noon.
To reserve a seat at
this educational event,
call White Oak Mills’
at (800) 468-5524 by
noon Friday, April 7.