Endurance.Net Ridecamp Archives

My husband's horse was a non-drinker on the trail.  Arriving at a VC at 35 
miles, I gave him a dose of (highly recommended) electrolytes after he 
finally did drink some.  The horse promptly started thumping, then graduated 
to a full colic.  Very odd...this horse was, when a few years younger, a 
terrific multi-day horse, but as he became a little older, he became more 
and more adverse to drinking on the trail.  We finally sold him to a 
pleasure rider.  Certainly giving electrolytes didn't help the matter at 
all.

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <rides2far@xxxxxxxx>
To: <katswig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 5:04 AM
Subject: Re: [RC] Won't hurt?


> > Sheila Larsen said (about BC2A):
> > > > I would give it a try, won't hurt, ...
> Kat said:
> > THIS is a fallacy.
>
> Yeah, I've had two metabollic pulls, ever, that I can think of. They both
> had to do with what I GAVE, not what I didn't give. Once it was too many
> probiotics, he got gassy and had a mild colic. The other time I gave
> non-endurance electrolytes and he got thumps. He probably wouldn't have
> gotten it if I'd given *no* electrolytes, but that kind sends them even
> farther into alkylosis. 



=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net.
Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp
Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp

Ride Long and Ride Safe!!

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=