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Angie wrote:

I remember someone out there talking about their electrolyting
protocol and mentioning her horse urinating an awful lot at a ride

 

Dabney responds:

I have seen that when the horse has been given lots of heavily soaked beet pulp the day before the ride, but haven't noticed a correlation with e-lyting.

 

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Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 12:17 PM

Subject: [RC] Low Tech and electrolytes

>> In the 
west, there are many multi-day rides that have only one vet 
>> 
check,  and if the terrain does not permit one at about 25 miles, 
then
> it is 
>> held  wherever the terrain does 
permit.  
> 
> Here's what confuses me. At one of our 50's, 
that horse probably would
> have had a 30 min. hold at 15 miles, and an 
hour at 25. He'd have had
> alfalfa, coastal, a pan of beet pulp with a 
little grain, carrots &
> apples in it and maybe lush grass available. 
If you're out there with
> really  minimal forage on the trail...what 
gets put in their gut on these
> long loops? My horse's gut it pretty full 
when he gets his electrolytes.
> He often stopps at a lush spot along the 
trail and grabs grass before
> automatically picking up his trot. I can 
see where electrolyting on an
> empty stomach would be worse...but how do 
ya'll keep them from being
> empty and how are they supposed to replace 
them naturally with no forage
> on the trail?
> 
> P.S. One 
thing I watch for is urination. Seems that if you give too many
> 
electrolytes your horse urinates more often. If he just goes once in a
> 
50, I'm happy. If he starts going more often later in a 100 I'll back
> 
off.  I remember someone out there talking about their 
electrolyting
> protocol and mentioning her horse urinating an awful lot 
at a ride and I
> wondered if since the humidity was low he wasn't just 
peeing those
> electrolytes out.
> 
> Angie
> 
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