Re: RC: RC Camp Far West

[DreamWeaver <karen@chaton.gardnerville.nv.us>]

At 11:29 AM 05/30/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>There have been posts on RC where multi-day riders
>used 14 oz to 16 oz electrolytes per day.
>(Maybe some of them will respond again?)

That might've been me.  :+)  I'm including in that amount, what I pre-load 
and post load.  When I did Death Valley on Rocky (4 days, 200 miles), he 
did indeed get a total of about 4 pounds of electrolytes alltogether.  Of 
course, not all during the actual ride.  I preloaded him up pretty good, 
and then kept giving him electrolytes for awhile after the ride was over 
too (a day or two, basically just to finish up the leftovers).

I figure each of my syringes contains about 1.25 to 1.50 ounces of 
electrolytes (and ..50 to .75 ounce of probiotic, the rest is 
applesauce).  I dose a couple of hours before the start, and everytime the 
horse drinks.  Then post ride, we were dosing every 2 hours (till nobody 
was left conscious to do it each night <G>).  Everytime I would dose, I 
also would walk the horse and he would drink.  I don't know if I would have 
kept dosing like I was if he hadn't of been drinking (and peeing) so well.

>There were several posts on RC more than a year ago
>about horses with high, hanging pulses, or spiking pulses, and
>the consensus was electrolyte imbalance.

Did they ever determine what specific electrolytes were out of balance?

k