Re: loose salt (was: No Sweat)

["Susan Garlinghouse" <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>]

Just table salt is fine, as the majority of what you've lost in sweat is
just sodium and chloride.  You also lose potassium and calcium in sweat, but
in at-home situations, those are being replaced by hay.  At endurance rides,
you need to replace those electrolytes as well as just sodium chloride.  I
just put the salt into a small bucket and hang it off the fence.

Susan G
----- Original Message -----
From: Suzanne Mounts <mountss@usfca.edu>
To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 2:40 PM
Subject: RC: loose salt (was: No Sweat)


> What kind of loose salt should horses get?  Is table salt ok or do they
> need some other kind of salt?  Do you just put the salt in a bucket or how
> is it dispensed?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Suzanne (who obviously has been using a salt block and not loose salt)
>
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