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Title: Article Eleanor Kellon

There must be something wrong here in the calculation. Our endurance horses are eating 5kgs of hay per day or 11 pounds, as a minimum.

I don't want to be the one launching again this EL discussion :-)   But how can Eleanor explain that successful European horses perform without EL administration during the race...

Leonard (www.endurance-belgium.com)



Our 800 pound horse would need to consume about 2.5
kg, or 5.5 pounds of hay to meet his chloride needs just loafing
around. If this same horse is not getting the required amount of salt,
he would need to eat 8.5 pounds of hay. This is certainly doable for
maintenanceOn race day, the total electrolyte requirements are a sum of
maintenance needs plus sweat and urine losses. The kidneys are working
against the horse when chloride is lost because priority will be given
to attempting to lower the rising bicarbonate, leading to higher