--- Karen Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's definitely a regional/climate thing, Storme. It's well known > that > desert areas of North America are considered SE-free zones. Well where I live is the anti desert, rain forest with a lot of mousquitos, gnats and bugs, yes a lot of bugs....there are Icelandics in the desert region here, and actually they do better, their coats, mane feet, but all horses that we see here do better in those areas as opposed to the wetter climates If you don't have SE in Hawaii, count your lucky stars. I will..there are so many this time of the month to count if you live away from a city you can see them. > > >>> Where are you going with that statement? It just is not true. > > Keep reading...and if you don't believe the studies Judy posted, > check the > archives. I'm afraid it is true, sadly. Well if someone could point me in the exact direction, as I have never seen 50%, and as an owner of imported stock, no one has ever asked me about my imported stock having SE, so I wonder about the validity of any numbers actually....I think that those with SE should not be breed if it is such a big issue.....I do not know anything about it, as I have never seen it or had to deal with it....but 50% sounds high.... We could create a survey for this list of horses, imported or domestic and if they have SE or not, that would be useful, we could reach a lot of Icelandic horse owners in the survey.... And the todays or yesterdays list has a vaccine coming out and their percentage of SE Icelandics was a lot lower than 50%. Storme ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html
