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Margo Wichman (Margow)
Posted on Monday, Jul 29, 2002 - 1:13 pm:   Edit PostPrint Post
My foal and mare are eating dirt. I feed the mare excellent quality grass hay with alfalfa and supplement her grain with a mare supplement. My mare's bags never were big, so to be on the safe side my vet started the foal on a pelleted foal starter besides giving the mare domperidone for over a week. The foal is high energy and is really filling out. I can't see these strange eating choices as being deficiencies. I don't know how else to explain. Is this behavior normal?
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Margo Wichman (Margow)
Posted on Monday, Jul 29, 2002 - 1:17 pm:   Edit PostPrint Post
OH! I forgot to add that the foal is also eating the mare's manure.
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Robert N. Oglesby DVM (Dro)
Posted on Tuesday, Jul 30, 2002 - 7:06 am:   Edit PostPrint Post
Hello Margo,
See Care for Horses: Nutrition: Horses Eating Things They Shouldn't: Pica, Coprophagia, Trees where we cover these questions.
DrO
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