I am apparently way out of the loop but a Anesthesiologist at Penn just e-mailed me about a high incidence of cecal and large colon impaction he is observing following tranquilization in horses fed large amounts of dates and date juice???
He also mentioned that they were getting high amounts of grain and low amounts of forage which obviously contributes to the problem but I am curious as to why anyone would feed large amounts of dates and date juice to horses here in the USA where they tend to be rather expensive!
Could anyone enlighten me as to the reason for this apparent new fad?
Sarah Ralston
