This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 06:54 AM 1/27/99 -0500, you wrote: >This message is from: "Dave McWethy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Glad whoever wrote about tying up reminded me. I had a conversation with >some endurance folks this weekend about tying up. I realized that I have >never heard of an incident of a Fjord tying up. Has anyone had any direct >experience of tie up with a Fjord?
Dave, the incidence of EPSM, which includes symptoms of tying up, stiffness, etc. have been identified in Fjords and draft horse breeds, altho I don't know if they showed the actual "tying-up " symptom. An illustration in the first article in Michael Plumb's Horse Journal (July l996) shows a Fjord (drawing) demonstrating the inability to generate a proper canter, with a very stiff gait. To quote from this article: "EPSM has been documented in Quarter Horses, Paints, Appaloosas, Percherons and Belgians. A form of EPSM is also believed to occur in Arabians, NORWEGIAN FJORDS, Morgans, Thoroughbreds, Standardbreds and warmbloods in which glycogen, not polysaccharide, accumulates in the muscles." Jean in Fairbanks, Alaska, where we are back in the deep freeze with -43 degrees......And the weather service is warning of a severe cold wave that will be the coldest in ten years! :-( > > > ****************************************************************** Jean Ernest Fairbanks, Alaska [EMAIL PROTECTED]
