Re: Trail food for the horse

[PLOUGH1@ix.netcom.com (KIMBERLY PRICE)]

** Hey Cheryl,

**First of all, congrads on your first 50 with Blue.  I know you’ve 
worked hard to have a sound happy horse complete this ride.

**You bring up some great questions but I didn't see any responses!  
(I’m on digest, maybe I missed some).  My question to add is I 
understand the horse’s gut slows considerably as blood is draw away to 
carry oxygen etc to the working muscles.  I know it is good to let the 
horse get some roughfage during the ride, to help keep the guts moving, 
but I wonder if you would have to be careful about giving him too many 
small meals during this period of work?

**Sounds like a great horse treat regardless!

Kimberly (&Mystery the Morab)
Pt.Reyes, CA

Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 18:53:07 -0700
From: Cheryl Newbanks <horsetrails@inficad.com> wrote:

Hey all!  

Well my first 50 has got me thinking again (yeah I know I can smell the
smoke too:}  I was wondering if any of you used the electrolyte cookie 
mixwithout the electrolytes and add some dried chopped alfalfa to them 
for feeding on the trail?  I thought that if I take a 1 lb bag of these 
in my pack and feed them to Blue at every water check that he wouldn't 
get as hungry as he does eating only at vc's.  My theory is more small 
meals as we go and eating at vc may keep his energy level more 
consistant. I would add dry chopped alfalfa to the cookie recipe so 
there would be more roughage then grains in the cookie.  

I also wonder if I put my carbo loader in a cookie instead of giving it 
to him in a syringe would the heat from baking it effect the efficiency 
of the loader?  Any ideas group???/


   
                                 Cheryl Newbanks 
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