--- Nancy Sturm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It was 99 degrees here yesterday, and the horses are growing coats.
>
> Nancy, in normally cool Oregon
>
Yes it is too bad that they grow their winter coats based on the
amount of daylight instead of heat.....our friends Icelandics down
the road are getting their winter coats, ours, not yet....I also
think that quality feed helps their coats, just my own theory, as our
Icelandics seem to get their coats a little later and shed them out a
little sooner...and we fed very differently compared to our
friend...she feeds just oat/alf cubes....ours get free choice
minerals and salt, grass hay, black oil sunflower seeds, beet pulp
and some alfalfa...or they are on pasture and get alf cubes and sun
seeds.
Skye
~~~~Fire Island Farms~~~~
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