We have been giving our 1000 pound horse 32 ounces of CS daily for well over a year because of the possibility of West Nile virus infection and other opportunistic infections. He is healthy and 28 years old. We have a large pond in our yard and also live near bottomland that is swampy. Both spots are great mosquito breeding areas, so this is preventive on our part.
He has never had any problem with the CS. His manure is always well formed and appear normal so I suspect the CS is not affecting any beneficial gut bacteria. Liquid and paste probiotics are available for horses if you think there is a gut problem and feel they need supplementation. Trem ----- Original Message ----- From: "sol" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 6:27 PM Subject: [silver_list] Re: CS>Infected eye > Horses are hindgut fermenters, highly likely in fact to be more > sensitive to bacterial die off in the gut than cattle, etc. Actually, > rabbits and horses have a lot of similarities, though you can't go quite > so far as to say what is safe for one species is safe for the other. But > horses and lagomorphs are both hindgut fermenters, though horses employ > a single pass system, and rabbits produce cecotrophs which must be > re-ingested: this is how bunnies get their vitamins and nutrients. I hav > read that evolutionarily, the lagomorphs closest relatives are horses. > paula > > > Marshall Dudley wrote: > > >This problem is only for rudiments I believe. A horse is not a rudiment if I remember > >right. > > > >Marshall > > > >[email protected] wrote: > > > > > > > >>In a message dated 4/16/04 8:16:33 AM EST, [email protected] writes: > >> > >><< I have no experience with this but it's 'rumored' that CS can kill the > >> microbes that grass eaters depend on for digestion. >> > >> > >>OK -- so you're saying that Colloidal Silver will kill off the *good* > >>bacteria in the gut? If so, then it would have to be a quantity thing. I have been > >>giving one of my horses a quart of CS a day for almost three years, to treat > >>EPM. He's not dead, and he's not even thin. I don't know how much you'd have > >>to give them to affect gut bacteria. MA > >> > >>-- > >>The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > >> > >>Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > >> > >>To post, address your message to: [email protected] > >>Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > >> > >>Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] > >>OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > >> > >>List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Realists are the pins in a room full of fantasy balloons. > > > >
