More on the Farmfair Incident
I talked to Darren Krill, Senior Manager, Communications at Northlands this morning about the horses that had become sick while at Farmfair (and later died). He advised that the investigation at the Vet College in Saskatoon indicated that it was an isolated toxic event probably from contaminated feed (each exhibitor typically brings his own feed).
So, I wonder how common is “contaminated feed” problems? Has anyone out there had problems with “contaminated” feed? What are the usual contaminates and how do they get there?
We were hay farmers for years and although there were lots of years when some of the hay we put up was of too poor quality to feed to horses because of dust and/or mold in the hay, we have never had a “toxic event”. Am I just lucky? Is this from feeding very poor quality hay? Or, does something like road kill - perhaps we should call it “baler kill” end up in the bale and cause the problem?
Please feel free to comment (there is link to do so below the post) if you have had any experience with this kind of problem.


