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Bart wrote:
On Sep 27, 7:41 pm, wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:12:34 -0700, (Thom Stewart) wrote: Bart, I just wrote down 14 without counting Reefing, which could add one to three adjustments, depending on how you're counting. You will earn one imaginary point for your imaginary list, Thom. It doesn't count ( or teach anybody anything) unless you actually post the list. Meanwhile I can add one type of mainsail control line that no one else will think of. The lines that control what mainsail you have on your boat. PURSE STRINGS. Ok, I'll bite. What the heck is a purse string? A purse string is a surgical stitch taken to sew shut a mare's cervix after being bred so she does not miscarry her foal. |
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"katy" wrote in message ... A purse string is a surgical stitch taken to sew shut a mare's cervix after being bred so she does not miscarry her foal. I know nothing about horses but that sounds like an awful thing to do. What pain must it cause the mare if nature decides that there is something wrong with that foetus and it needs to go? |
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Edgar wrote:
"katy" wrote in message ... A purse string is a surgical stitch taken to sew shut a mare's cervix after being bred so she does not miscarry her foal. I know nothing about horses but that sounds like an awful thing to do. What pain must it cause the mare if nature decides that there is something wrong with that foetus and it needs to go? It's done on mares that have been performance horses...they tend to have a condition where they suck air throiugh there and have spontaneous abortion because of it...some mares are also stitched (it's one loose stitch) when they perform also so they don't suck air...it doesn't stop the labor process so if she is far enough along that she doesn't absorb (horses absorb miscarriages up to a point) and goes into labor, it is easily cut...if there was something genetically worng, chancews are she would absorb first...when that happens they have a dirty heat and you have the vet over for treatment... |
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