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RE: [RC] Vit C question - our nutrition guru or anyone with the know-how out there? - Susan E. GarlinghouseYes, you can feed ascorbic acid as a vitamin C source. However, if you're feeding enough that price per pound has become an issue, I suspect you're feeding too much. Supplementing with a little extra vitamin C (maybe 5 grams) per day ONLY during periods of significant stress (ie, during transport, showing, etc) is fine. However, the equine liver is plenty capable of manufacturing all the vitamin C required the rest of the time. If you supplement extra, than the natural synthesis slows down. Between the two, the natural, horse-made form is more available to the horse, so in the long run, you're probably actually shorting your horse on the most bioactive form available to him. So my suggestion would be to provide whatever form is most cost effective for you, but only provide it on stress days and then mix small amounts in with other 'buffering' feeds, like some alfalfa. Susan Garlinghouse, DVM -----Original Message----- From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kristi Schaaf Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 8:08 AM To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [RC] Vit C question - our nutrition guru or anyone with the know-how out there? Is it alright to feed a horse straight 'ascorbic acid powder' as a Vitamin C source? I can get that through a health food outlet for $10/lb, compared to the Ester-C sold in the equine catalog that is at least four times as costly (but that comes with claims that it is the most readily absorbed and doesn't irritate the equine stomach). Thanks in advance. Kristi iluvdez at yahoo dot com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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