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Angie,
Don't think Barbara is saying the elytes caused the thumping, just that they 
were too late to prevent the thumps and metabolic problems.

Here in the wide open wild west we often see multi-days where the logistics 
determine that there can be only one VC, or that it might have to be at 35 
miles--because there's no way to get vehicles to intersect the trail more 
often than that!  One of the reasons multi-dayers tend to go slower, I 
guess.....

Dabney

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Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 8:59 AM
Subject: [RC] Low Tech and electrolytes


> The vet check was at 35
> > miles into the 50.  We came in, Lud's horse drank a little and I
> > gave him a full dose of electrolytes (dumb!)  The horse soon started
> > thumping, then went into a full colic and had to have fluids IV.
>
> First, you'd never see a ride with a first (and only) check at 35 miles
> around here. Second...if the horse needed electrolytes, it was probably
> pretty late. On rides like this, does Heidi carry around 40 lbs of hay in
> a feed bag?  How does a horse *start* thumping because of electrolytes?
> If thumping is caused by a horse becoming alkaline and low calcium, how
> does adding it *cause* thumps (unless you used the feed store brand that
> is for horses that are acidic)?  If you wait till something's already
> going wrong, then give them, does that mean they caused the original
> problem?
>
> P.S. On the "Low Tech" rode with a heart monitor for awhile and got the
> feel of what different rates felt like, so I could better understand the
> training articles. Don't bother now since terrain regulates my speed more
> than heart rate.
>
> Angie
>
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