Re: mineral anaysis-horses

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

The research published on using hair samples for mineral analysis indicate
it's pretty much useless for any realistic dietary analysis.  You can use it
to look for some heavy metal toxicities, or for chronic selenium excess and
that's about it.  The study that looked at the whole thing sent samples to
13 different labs, not one report back matched any of the others and they
all recommended buying supplements that they coincidentally sold.  Also,
it's been pretty well demonstrated that deficiencies in dietary minerals
don't correlate with deficiency of that mineral in hair (for example, zinc,
magnesium and iron).

So save your money on that one.  Having the hay analyzed is a lot more
useful, although even then, it's really only a useful tool if you're
planning on buying a large quantity of hay (not a few bales a week that
might come from different sources).

Susan G
> Linda Goddard khometkidd@hotmail.com
> Looking for anyone that has done a mineral anaysis on a horse using mane
> samples. Did you find it helpful?Who did you go though?What was the cost?
> Any information would be very helful.Can email khometkidd@hotmail.com
> Thanx!
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