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RE: [RC] Selenium Vit E and flax/BOSS - Susan E. Garlinghouse, D.V.M.

So Cal in general isn’t particularly selenium deficient if you are feeding the locally grown hays such as alfalfa or Bermuda.  If you are feeding the grass hays coming down from the PNW or Northern California; or if your horse is working reasonably hard, ie more than 25-30 miles of riding on average per week, then I would supplement with at least 3 mg of selenium per day.  More if you are seeing any symptoms of deficiency such as tying up, overly-stiff after a reasonable ride, that sort of thing.

 

Susan Garlinghouse, DVM, MS

 


From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of christabas@xxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 12:38 PM
To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [RC] Selenium Vit E and flax/BOSS

 

How do I find out if my area is selenium deficient?  I know it wasn't in East TX, but I don't know anything about Southern CA

 

Christa

 
-----Original Message-----
From: Ridecamp Guest <guest-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:11:36 GMT
Subject: [RC] Selenium Vit E and flax/BOSS

Please Reply to: Kaaren klebert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Ok! I've read everything I can get my eyes on and I'm still not satisfied,

perhaps I'm overcomplecating things.

 

I wasn't happy with the way my horse was behaving on sweetfeed so I took him off

it. He is much less spooky now. He gets rolled barley and beet pulp and free

choice timothy grass hay.

Because we have selenium deficient soil I give him a seleiun/Vitamin E

supplement and he also gets glucosamine.

 

Here's the question, would he be better off with black oil sunflower seeds and

flax seed mixed or with the VitE/selenium he gets now?

Kaaren

 

 

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