thumps

[Onefarmgirl@aol.com]

WOW!   Many many thanks to all of you who replied.  It is a miracle of the 
WWW that a peon like me can get input and counsel from some of the leading 
riders, and some of the top nutrition and physiology folks.   Plus, the moral 
support from so many of you was much appreciated.

Since it seems that most of the replies were not posted to RC, let me 
summarize a couple of things, then separately I will post a longish reply I 
received from Gayle Eckers, for those of you who are interested.

#1 - It was Gayle who spoke about Perform N Win lytes at the AERC convention, 
not Susan Garlinghouse, as I posted.  My error.

#2 - No disagreement from anyone that this was a low Ca problem

#3 - No one seemed to think the addition of loose salt to the diet had any 
impact.

#4 - Lots of riders who don't feed alfalfa at home add it into the diet at 
the ride, evidently w/o any problems

#5 - Probably the primary cause of my horse's problem was that I was using 
the PNW inaccurately.   Altho I knew that the different lytes varied in 
composition, I totally failed to take into account how wide that variation 
was, and I was waaaay underdosing the PNW.   One "dose" should actually be 
more like 3 or 4 scoops, as several of you pointed out.

KA Airborne seems none the worse for wear - getting a little sassy out on 
pasture.  Thanks again to everyone who replied - I really appreciated it

pat farmer