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    MODERN PROBLEM FOR AN ANCIENT BREED

    Aug 25, 2020 1 minute

    A new study links an often-fatal disease in an ancient breed of Chinese horse to a thoroughly modern cause: a dietary deficiency related to management practices.

    The Hequ horse, which has ancestry tracing back to the Tang Dynasty era, is

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