Re: Breeders Try To Avoid Foal Loss

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how do I get to the group room for sick buildings to look at all of the previous postings? ----- Original Message ----- From: Barbara Herskovitz Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 4:10 AM Sick Buildings Subject: [] Breeders Try To Avoid Foal Loss WLWT ChannelCincinnati.comWednesday January 30 07:56 PM ESTBreeders Try To Avoid Foal LossBreeders and veterinarians are taking precautions when foals are born thisyear in Kentucky, after about 20 percent of mares lost their foals in 2001,WLWT Eyewitness News 5's on reported.Kentucky breeders like Steve Cauthen, owner of Dream Fields, blamed marereproductive syndrome for the loss of about 500 late-term pregnancies, andnearly 2,000 early fetal losses from April to June last year, onsaid.Scientists have narrowed the possibilities for the disorder to two potentialcauses.The tent caterpillar, which builds up cyanide from feeding off cherry trees,is one suspected causes of the disease. As a result, hundreds of cherrytrees have been destroyed on Kentucky horse farms, on said.Last year's weather is also suspected for mare reproductive syndrome. LastApril there were two severe frosts followed by warm weather, which couldhave resulted in chemicals like cyanide or a deadly fungus to grow on thegrass in the fields.Since something similar happened after a late frost in 1980, Cauthen thinksthe real cause may be the weather, on reported."I'll focus very much on the weather. I'll watch it very closely," Cauthensaid.He said that he has to be very cautious, since a colt can be worth as muchas $200,000.Scientists from the University of Kentucky are asking breeders to takeprecautions against mare reproductive syndrome by controlling thecaterpillar population and watching the weather, on said.FAIR USE NOTICE:This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.