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Why is my mare so sickly?

Dear Prof McCrindle,

live in Texas in the US, and have a 20-year-old mare, who has had many problems since I purchased her. The man I bought her from rescued her from a kill pen. She is incredibly skinny, and although I dewormed her twice and am feeding her two scoops of lucerne cubes, sweet feed

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