Erratic energy level/Bonnies' horse (from Barb Peck)

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Barb Peck bpeck@together.net
Bonnie:

It sounds like your horse has an erratic energy level...

Probably makes no sense:  when the horse should be frisky he's not..
and when he should be tired.. he's not.

I had a horse like this, (more heavily muscled than the flat muscled
purebred arab)  with erratic energy levels.
I didn't figure it out untill I had a complete blood panel done
includind T4, AND
the most important thing I did was claculate the macro & micro-minerals/
Vits and salts (selenium, iodine, Chloride, E, etc etc).

Turns out he was deficient in iodine, and chloride... straightned that
out, and his energy level was predictable
with various leveles of conditioning.

Good luck
Barb










Bonnie Snodgrass wrote:
>  That's really what has me wondering, the lack of energy thing. Last
winter
> I had to feed some stemmy, coarse hay that she didn't care for so I
added
> some really fine alfalfa twice a day and increased her grain. She looked
the
> same, maintained the same weight and  had energy to spare. It wasn't
just
> the cool weather. Now that she's back on a high fat, high fiber, low
protein
> diet she seems to run out of energy after too few miles. Does she need
more
> protein in her diet?