RC: Potassium low/sodium OK

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Barb Peck bpeck
Barb Peck
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Heidi says:
:I am especially concerned about the 
:folks that describe adding potassium on a daily basis--if the horse is eating 
:plenty of good quality roughage, I'd start looking for reasons OTHER than a 
:deficiency in intake for low potassium levels...

The above statement is the cruz of the whole thread.
And, since plasma potassium is not necessaryily representative
of what's in the whole body... then when the Vet's say
that alot of horses at Biltmore were low in potassium, did
they do urine and blood tests to make that determination?

Barb