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August 7, 2006
Volume 2, Number 15

Hello Friends,

I hope all is well with you. It has been a very busy past two weeks since last talking to you. However, my two boys and I have been doing a little fishing the past couple of nights. Really they have been doing the fishing, and I have been untangling lines, baiting hooks, and refereeing conflicts of who caught the most and the biggest fish. Despite all of that, we have been having a great time.

Also, many of you might be aware of the e-mail that has been going around about the tragedy in Texas involving the deaths of the horses that happened to be on our Strategy Feed. E-mails can get out of hand and spread false information. I have posted the official statement that shows that Strategy was never the cause of this terrible accident. The bottom line is that Purina’s Strategy is and will continue to be a great product of choice!

Horse Mortality Incident Traced to Pesticide COLLEGE STATION, July 21, 2006

Testing at the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary  Medicine & Biomedical Sciences and the Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory has yielded evidence that the toxic principal responsible for the recent deaths of more than two dozen horses at Carousel Acres Equine Center in Brazos County, Texas, was in all likelihood phosphine gas.

Phosphine is a gaseous product released from a highly toxic fumigant pesticide that was reportedly applied by Carousel Acres to the feed bin to kill weevils. Dr. Richard Adams, Dean of the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, indicated necropsies on three of the horses that died at the Texas A&M veterinary clinic all showed the presence of phosphine gas in their stomach.

“Considering that the stable feed bin was reportedly treated with a fumigant pesticide that releases phosphine gas as its toxic principal, and considering that phosphine gas was detected in the horses’ digestive tracts after death, the pesticide certainly appears to be the etiologic agent, the causative factor, responsible for this tragic situation,” Adams said.

“So far, necropsy examination of the animals and toxicologic testing of bodily materials have not revealed any apparent toxicants beyond the phosphine,” Adams said.

“This appears to have been an unfortunate on-farm accident attributable to the pesticide application. Contrary to some early misleading speculation, there is no indication that the feed product itself was defective when it was delivered to the farm.”

                            For more information contact:  Jill Burke, Office of Public Relations College
                            of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University
                            (979) 845-9102 

You might want to consider joining us on the Better Horses Network “Purina Mills Equine Research Road Trip!” on Aug. 29 in Gray Summit, Mo.. We leave at noon on Aug.28, taking a nice 47 seat Crossroad Tours coach bus from Olathe, Kansas and making the trek to Gray Summit, Missouri. We will be stopping along the way on I-70 to pick up any of you who might want to join us! (Independence, Marshall Junction, & Columbia) This will be an excellent opportunity for you to see why Purina Horse Feed is the number one feed. For $100 you get the Bus Ride, overnight stay at Holiday Inn, 3 meals, entertainment, education, and a GREAT TIME. See the information in the calendar in this issue. Come on, join us and give us a call. If we have to, we will get another bus!

You will get this newsletter along with one more, and then you will see the name change to Better Horses Network. The Better Horses Network takes in not only our e-letter but also our paper publication and Better Horses radio show. I think you are going to like our new website that is presently being constructed which will be www.betterhorsesnetwork and also a link from this, will be www.betterhorsesradio.com . We look for this all to be completed by September 1st.

If you want to see some great reining horses, make sure you come to Topeka on Aug.24-27 at the Kansas Expocentre. You will see some great ones!  Also, have you gone to the new website, http://www.workinghorseworld.com?  That is a pretty neat site courtesy of Dave and Gail Mattern.

Let me know if I can be of any help!

Happy Trails!

Ernie

Calendar of Upcoming Events:

 August

September

October

KAYSINGER HORSE SHOW CIRCUIT 2006.  Visit www.kasingerhorseshow.org or Click here to view 2006 Horse Show Schedule.

The Checkerboard Corral Radio Show continues to grow!  Tune in to one of the stations airing our show:
              
                Saturday    9:00am - 10:00am         KMDO 1600 am - Fort Scott, KS
                Saturday    4:00pm - 5:00pm           KFRM 550 am - Clay Center/Salina

                Sunday      6:00am - 7:00am            WIBW 580 am - Topeka or listen on-line at http://www.580radio.com/
                Sunday      6:30am - 7:30am            KFEQ 680 am - St. Joe, MO
                Sunday      9:00am - 10:00am          KDKD 95.3 fm - Clinton, MO
                Sunday      4:00pm - 5:00pm           KOFO 1220 am - Ottawa, KS

             

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Horse Management Tip

BATH TIME

 Most of us take a bath or shower everyday, but do our horses really need one that often? Giving a horse a bath more than once or twice a week with soap depletes the coat of oils. These oils do replenish in time, but washing them out too often will give your horse a dull coat. Horses have a delicate balance of bacteria on their skin, which needs to be maintained. You want the horse's skin and coat to be clean, yet you don't want to kill the bacteria. Too many baths can also damage the hooves. An easy way to minimize this is to coat the hooves with a petroleum jelly prior to bathing.

Bathe your horse using clear water from a hose alone or wash him with a sponge from a bucket of soapy water, putting soap directly on his coat can sometimes make it difficult to get all of the soap out. Completely soap and rinse one section at a time to prevent the soap from drying on the skin and causing irritation, then follow with a good rinse all over, being sure his coat is soap free. An alternative to bathing with soap is to give him a warm water rinse after any work or riding. If soap isn't used, a water rinse can be used as often as needed. After washing, put a cooler on the horse, walk him, then bed him in a clean, draft-free stall. A wet horse has to be kept from drafty places to prevent chills. Don’t put him under a fan until he is thoroughly dry. A sparkling clean horse is a joy to see -- however, remember that too much bathing can mess up nature’s balance.

Sally Dwyer
Seven Oaks Ranch
www.sevenoaksranch.com

Horsey Treat Recipe

If your favorite horse due for a special treat?  Try this special summer treat for that special horse in your life . . .

Summer Horse Delights

Senior Horse pellets -- about 2 cups with about 3/4 cup water added to make a mash rolled oats
1-2 cups Bran (enough to make the mixture dry enough to handle)
1 cup molasses
2 cups shredded carrots
Brown sugar (not a lot--about 1/4 cup)

Preheat oven to 350o.  Lightly grease cookie sheet.  Make small balls and put on greased cookie sheet.  Bake 1 hour, turn oven off and let sit in oven for another hour.  These cookies will be REAL hard -- but horses LOVE them!
 

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BUY 2, GET 2 FREE!

If sweet feed or textured feed is your preference, give Purina's Horseman's Edge® Sweet 12 a try.  This improved formula increases the fat to 6% and adds more Lysine to the formula as well.  Take advantage of this special offer now!  Bring in a competititor's horse feed, empty or full, (not valid on any Equine Merit™ Horse Feed) . . . and get a coupon good for 2 FREE BAGS of any Horseman's Edge® when you buy 2 at regular price.

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