In Episode 127, we tackle the high cost of small animal veterinary medicine; the Breed of the Show is the Papillon dog; in Critter Nutrition we focus on medicinal mushrooms for horses and dogs; and in Coffee Klatch we match famous musicians with their perfect pet!
Listen in!
Guests and Links for Episode 127:
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- Link to Sound File for Sight Impaired: Click Here
- Co-Hosts: Tigger Montague from BiostarUS and Pati Pierucci from from Pierucci Dressage
- Guest: Hedwig
- BioStar article: Medicinal Mushrooms for Horses and Dogs
- Ask Hedwig Facebook
- Learn more about the Papillon Dog
Medicinal mushrooms for horses? Co-host Tigger Montague explains how our equines can benefit:
“While none of us can imagine our horses wandering over to munch on some button mushrooms in the pasture, the fact is, a mushroom is a fungus, and horses on pasture are consuming fungi all the time, just as they are other soil microorganisms.
Fungi and bacteria play important roles in the soil web, helping to deliver nutrients to the roots of plants, as well as digesting the hard-to-break-down soil organics—plant matter like lignin and some sugars. Approximately 80-90% of all plants form symbiotic fungi relationships. Fungi prefer perennial plants, such as the grasses and legumes that make up our hay and forages.
So providing medicinal mushrooms to horses when needed is a kind of synergy in the complex natural world…”
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