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RC: No Sweat
Barb Peck bpeck@together.net
Barb Peck
bpeck@together.net
Susan Garlinghouse said:
If you're conditioning alot, you should probably be providing loose salt
instead of a block. A horse can easily lose 4-6 ounces of salt (or more)
during a conditioning ride and it's takes alot of licking to replace
that---if his tongue gets sore before he's had enough, he'll just stop while
still deficient, and that can have an effect on sweating ability.
All:
To put that amount of salt in perspective, Suans talking about:
1 Tablespoon of salt weighs about 18 grams, or 0.63 oz.
So 6 tablespoons of salt is 108 grams, or about 3.8 oz.
Minimum daily requirement is about 30 grams (not quite 2 TBS).
I think to lick even then minimum daily requirement
from a block would be quite a feat.
Barb
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