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Heidi,

Seems to me sometime back you referred to a study done at Oregon St. on the
average total amount of Se in the diet required to maintain the Se in the
proper range. Do you recall this and if so what were the numbers?

Thanks 
Truman

Heidi Smith wrote:
> > I live in the Great Lakes region - very selenium deficient.
> >
> > Where in the heck can 3mg per ounce E and Se supplement be found? Equine
> > America used to sell it, but no more. Uckele has the best "bang for the
> > buck", but I'd have to use one and a half ounces to get the 3mg. Pretty
> >   
> soon
> > her grain won't cover her supplements! I'm exaggerating, but if there's
> >   
> too
> > much powder, my mare won't eat it.
> >   
>
> EqU-SeE is 6 mg per ounce (and as another poster pointed out, is dosed by
> the teaspoon--1 mg per teaspoon) and can still be purchased at K-V.  The
> powder problem can be dealt with by feeding just a handful of Equine Senior
> with it--it sticks beautifully to the tacky-textured Senior.
>
> > Speaking of testing, my test results said that whole-blood analysis is a
> > longer-tem indicator of selenium status than serum selenium. Is this true,
> > or simply something Michigan State is selling? (As another alternative,
> > Uckele offers hair analysis for about $200 -- the cost isn't worth the
> > benefit to me if blood analysis is good enough.)
> >   
>
> Whole blood is the appropriate sample for the most accurate selenium
> testing.  Don't bother with the hair analysis for current information--it
> just tells you what it was 9 months ago.
>
> Heidi
>
>
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