Paul Saladino· MD
you're going to get more truth in the veterinary literature than you are in the human literature uh because money's at stake you cannot have your flock dying off you know so they've been trying to figure out how much crap they can put into foods for animals and get away without killing the flock before you harvest it for sale right so they've been trying to sneak in all those excess beet greens because the sugar beet industry produces beet greens as a byproduct and the soy industry produces a lot of soy junk as a byproduct and factories produce wrappers and junk they don't want and they try to incorporate this into animal feeds all kinds of weird stuff and if you overdo those beet greens you can kill your flocks and horses are particularly vulnerable to it because you know the rest of the grasses that horses are grazing on and the hay they're given it's not very high in calcium then by available calcium and when you add a high oxalate weed to the forage or some would be deadly for horse add some some bee greens to that feed you're going to get some serious problems and they they develop this big head and this lameness because of Calcium deficiency and the cells in the in the face start being unable to reproduce themselves and you have to fill it in with fibrosis and so the face starts swelling up with scar tissue so it won't fall apart for lack of proper cells cell reproduction in the face and they get lame and they die have to be put down with a horse and with sheep sheep or ruminants who have multiple stomachs and supposedly bacteria save the day but it doesn't and um they'll go so far as should give calcium IVs to the Sheep to try to save them when they got into a patch of high oxalate forages or were given abruptly given a high oxide diet if they gradually give it a high oxalate diet they can sneak in a little bit of the beet greens into the feed and get away with it but if they do it abruptly uh you can kill your sheep off