Re: RC: Copper pipe? (from Barb Peck)

[Cliff Fenneman <cfly@concentric.net>]

Not in a grain bucket...a water bucket. I'm not sure that makes any more 
sense, but...?

guest@endurance.net wrote:

>Barb Peck bpeck@together.net
>My opinion on that:
>I'd imagine, that by the time you find a copper pipe,
>and actually get it into the grain bucket, that mare's
>gone out of heat.
>
>The more scientific answer would be that the form of copper
>that probably rubs off a copper pipe is copper oxide... and
>I beleive only about 25% of that form is bioavailable, so
>the amount of copper the animal is getting from a copper
>pipe in a grain bucket
>is about nil.
>Horses get more exposure than that from chewing on a copper
>mouthed bit.
>Barb
>
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