RC: Re: carbs and heart rate

["Nancy Mitts" <mitts_n@hotmail.com>]

Sylvia,
Uhm, don't consider this a flame, but aren't your pellets probably ground 
grains & hay pressed into pellets? If not, what is it? How many pounds of it 
do they get?
Don't you increase the feed during multidays? I know our horses are very 
hungry after rides, & if they were going back out day after day would 
probably need that 10-12 lbs by the end of a 5 day also. During the course 
of a 100 mile ride our horses will eat about 3 times what they get on a 
normal day.
Nancy Mitts
>
>Are you kidding?  My horses would either tie up or keel over on 10-12 
>pounds
>of grain a day.  Anybody out there who is just starting an endurance horse
>... Please don't do this!!!  My horses don't get ANY grain at all.  They 
>are
>on a feed called Raemakers (pellets) and all the forage hay they want.  Be
>very careful with grain.  Not a necessity for endurance horses at all.
>(whew, I'm glad Tom is on vacation in Dubai -- or wherever -- otherwise 
>this
>could get nasty, eh?)
>
>Sylvia (don't flame me this is just my opinion and I HATE to watch a horse
>colic or tie up)
>

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