Re: [SPAM] [RC] Electrolytes - as a supplement - Mary Ann Spencer
Some put regular table salt, about a teaspoon, in
the feed yr round to make them thirsty and hence drink more water. Then in
the hot weather use electrolytes daily. I have always just keep a mineral
block out for free choice licking. They mostly lick in the hot
weather. There seems to be lots of theories out which sound reasonable but
not necessarily the research to back it up. Seems a lot of the
research has come out of the emerging endurance riding folks. Research
takes money. Not sure what the horse racing folks do but they do a
much shorter workout. Homeostasis does a natural return to keep the
electrolytes the way the body needs them by dumping some or retaining some.
Quite complicated. There is probably some good research in
Equus magazine or the endurance magazines. Sounds like something
that someone could find all the info about and put into a good paper for
all to have for reference. mas
Subject: RE: [SPAM] [RC] Electrolytes -
as a supplement
Reason I'm asking is that I have a boarder - a first time horse
owner - who is insisting that I feed her horse electrolytes in his
feed. Along with several other supplements. I told her in the
beginning that I wouldn't be adding the electrolytes because I didn't feel
it was good for the horse, but now she's started prepackaging the
supplements and I don't know what all is in there anymore, except for the
neon pink tack store electrolytes. If I'm going to take a stand on
this, I'd like some facts to back it up.
Rae Tall C Arabians -
Central
-----Original Message----- From: heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 7:16 PM To:
Rae Callaway Cc: ridecamp Subject: RE: [SPAM] [RC] Electrolytes - as a
supplement
> Can someone explain to me why giving electrolytes as a
daily supplement is a > good idea?
As someone who doesn't
think it is a good idea to supplement healthy horses daily with
electrolytes, no, I can't explain why it is a good idea...
:-) It's good to have some sort of a salt supplement available
to them free choice, but IMO it is healthier to leave it up to them to use
it, instead of putting it in their
feed.
