Ridecamp: RE: [RC] carbohydrate fuel

I don't think you can give too much in the way of loader. (This does not count being totally stupid and feeding pounds of the stuff.) The point of continuous loading is to keep the blood sugar level up and stable. A grain meal eaten at the vet check is going to give you a sharper spike somewhere along the way.  But, if you are keeping your glucose in the 105 - 110 range with the loader and you grain spikes you to 120 for awhile, no biggie.  What you don't want to have happen is glucose at 105, spike to 120, then drop to 70 (or lower) because you did not give another dose of loader at the appropriate time. That said, different horses react differently and it takes some experimentation to find what works best for your horse.  I have been experimenting with loading 2 horses for about 2 years.  One of them HAS to have at least 2 oz every hour and fifteen minutes.  Longer than that and his blood sugar drops FAST.  The other motors happily along with 1.5 oz doses up to 2 hours apart.  His curve comes down fairly slowly, even if you stop loading him.

I have also picked up a tired horse that did not want to eat with an 8 oz dose of loader.  Inside of 20 minutes, he was chowing down everything in sight. (This horse was having an electrolyte imbalance problem and did NOT go on - but I still wanted him eating.)

Alison A. Farrin
Innovative Pension
Innovative Retirement Services
858-748-6500 x 107
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Subject: Re: [RC] carbohydrate fuel


I have found that giving the 1 to 2 oz carbs at  a VC  when the 
> loops arewithin the hour to 1-1/2 max long-  that is 10 to 15 miles, I
have  don OK.

But what if your horse chowed down on beet pulp and grain the entire vet
check?  I'm just curious.  If it improves his appetite...then do you let
him eat more too? At what point is too much too much?

Angie

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