And immediately we sent off hay samples, our supplement, our grain, we sent that off to both the university and to Ralston Purina, who helped us all the time. We sent it off, you know, to be evaluated, to see what’s there. Well it didn’t take them long, and it wasn’t a blister beetle or something in the hay. It was actually monensin in the feed that we were feeding. And monensin is used in cattle feeds all the time, but it’s toxic to sheep. And the place where we were getting our feed had made some batches of pelleted feed for cattle, and it had the monensin in it, and it was bagged up and shipped, you know, for cattle feed. Well, they then were making a batch of feed for the zoo, which was a different formula or whatever. However in their hoppers, there must have been some of the old feed or some of the monensin still attached, maybe you know, to the side, and it got incorporated into the feed that we had fed the sheep, and that was the problem.
