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Re: [RC] horse tying up - heidiSelenium is so sneaky. The only way to know if your horse needs selenium is to do a selenium blood test. Maggie(my horse) got pulled twice last year for muscle cramps. I never checked her selenium cause the year before she was way over 200 and the vet told me to cut back on the selenium. This year I checked it. 103!! Good grief, no wonder the mare had muscle cramps in the hind end. So far she has had 3 selenium vitamin E shots and the selenium supplement has been increased. I am done with the shots, she has knots in her neck but boy does she feel strong. So if it hasn't been done, check the horse's level. Then you will know what you need to do. Jeanie Gotta make a couple of comments here... One, the NORMAL range for selenium is 200 to 250 ppb--so at "way over 200" you probably had her just about right. Second, selenium is irritating to give in an IM injection and the amount is WAY over what should ever be injected in the thin muscle sheets of the neck. Try the back of the thigh next time. :-) (I much prefer giving it IV myself--no knots or sore muscles at all that way.) Heidi ============================================================ And remember, an arab's fourth gait is the spook! ~ Jeanie Miller ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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