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RE: [RC] Feed regime - Kristen A Fisher

He said this at a ride at the end of March in MO. Susan Garlinghouse also
concurs with the info below - continuous feeding of alfalfa [calcium] will
lower the ability to mobilize it when needed because the body is used to
getting it externally, which makes total sense to me. What alarmed me was
the implication that feeding it the day before/of a ride would do the same
thing. Just wanted to know what others thought about that.

I agree with letting them eat anything at a ride b/c I think basic gut
motility is a more major concern. So the next question is, if you know a
horse prefers alfalfa over coastal do you limit them to coastal at a ride
b/c they don't get it at home, or because of the postulation above? What
about giving oral calcium in electrolytes? Isn't that in effect the same as
feeding alfalfa without the benefit of forage??

I'm so confused!
Kristen

PS: Angie he did wholly support the elyte recipe which I think you said you
got from him...?


-----Original Message-----
From: rides2far@xxxxxxxx [mailto:rides2far@xxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 9:14 PM
To: kskf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: ranch@xxxxxxxxxxx; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [RC] Feed regime

 Dane > Frazier has

implied that he feels that even feeding alfalfa during a ride can
negatively> impact the parathyroid production/mobilization 

of internal
calcium. 

Is this something recent or from the old lecture on the 
Farnum "Endurance" tape?  In that he said that feeding it on 
a daily basis would make the body less capable of mobilizing 
internal calcium, sort of like it gets lax in making the most 
of what it's got because it's always got too much. I 
understood it to mean not to feed it on a daily basis, but 
it's great to hit them with the extra on ride day. 

Alfalfa is my number one choice of ride day food. So long as 
my horses are eagerly chowing down on alfalfa, all is well. 
They usually switch back over to coastal late in the ride though.

Angie



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