dana
09-03-2006, 06:37 PM
hubby (who is a non-horse person) had a conversation with a guy in town yesterday. the other guy is also a non-horse person so forgive me if i can't provide a whole lot for detail.
the other gentleman has a wife who owns two morgans. we had a pretty rotten drought up here this summer and most people found themselves feeding hay in july.
when we finally got rain a couple of weeks ago, these people noticed that both their morgans teeth and tounge had turned black. and not a little black, he said they were coal black.
so they called the vet out and he had never seen anything like it before but pulled blood from both horses and sent it to the university of minnesota for testing.
the answer they got back was that it was a noxious weed causing it but couldn't tell them which one. they guessed it was something that came up in their pastures after the drought.
so they pulled both horses off the pasture and put them in to feed them hay only. two days after they get the information about the noxious weeds, they have the farrier out. the farrier tells them that he has never seen anything like that either in all his years of being around horses.
two days later the farrier calls them back and said he had been trimming horses over in Wadena (60 miles away) and ran into several more horses with the same black teeth and tounges and advised the owners to get them off the pasture.
any ideas on this one? ever heard of anything like it? what a "weird" year this has been!
dana
the other gentleman has a wife who owns two morgans. we had a pretty rotten drought up here this summer and most people found themselves feeding hay in july.
when we finally got rain a couple of weeks ago, these people noticed that both their morgans teeth and tounge had turned black. and not a little black, he said they were coal black.
so they called the vet out and he had never seen anything like it before but pulled blood from both horses and sent it to the university of minnesota for testing.
the answer they got back was that it was a noxious weed causing it but couldn't tell them which one. they guessed it was something that came up in their pastures after the drought.
so they pulled both horses off the pasture and put them in to feed them hay only. two days after they get the information about the noxious weeds, they have the farrier out. the farrier tells them that he has never seen anything like that either in all his years of being around horses.
two days later the farrier calls them back and said he had been trimming horses over in Wadena (60 miles away) and ran into several more horses with the same black teeth and tounges and advised the owners to get them off the pasture.
any ideas on this one? ever heard of anything like it? what a "weird" year this has been!
dana