Re: thumps

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

More recent research is also implicating potassium---or, more specifically,
the DCAB (dietary cation anion balance), a balancing between ions with a
positive electrical charge (ie, calcium, potassium, sodium, etc) against
those with a negative electrical charge (ie chloride, bicarb, etc).
Actually, the people on the cutting edge are the ruminant nutritionists, a
very similar syndrome in dairy cattle called milk fever puts alot of cows on
the ground and kills them quick if it's not caught.

susan g
----- Original Message -----
From: <Onefarmgirl@aol.com>
To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 5:36 PM
Subject: RC: thumps


> Virtually always low calcium according to the vets I contacted and the
> reading I did.  Some horses definitely seem to have a greater tendency to
> develop thumps, but low blood Ca levels seem to be consistent.
>
> pat farmer
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