Re: Electrolyte comparison, which calcim form best?

["Susan Garlinghouse" <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>]

Without dragging out textbooks, the bioavailability for calcium carbonate (limestone) is about 67% in horses.  Probably one of the higher availability sources, also readily found at garden centers and such.

 

Susan Garlinghouse

----- Original Message -----

From: Laney Humphrey

To: Ridecamp

Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 9:59 AM

Subject: RC: Electrolyte comparison, which calcim form best?

Karen, thanks for putting all that valuable info out!!!  At Castlerock a horse got "thumps."  His owner was using a home-made electrolyte formula using dolomite as the calcium source.  Nancy Elliot, DVM (head vet) said that that form of calcium is not readily available to the horse.
    For myself, I make sure and take calcium acetate because I read somewhere, sometime that it was the most easily absorbed form for humans.  Does anyone know which form of calcium is best for the horse?  (I noticed that not all electrolyte formulations in your chart use the same type & some didn't list the type used.)
    Thanks all you chemists and nutritionists!
Laney
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