Use E-lytes (half doses) Thursday am and pm.
If I am not trailering for at least two hours after feeding on Friday am, I also give half dose first thing in am
half dose when I arrive.
I use DynaSpark in a very wet mash..small amt of mash..lots of water.
If I do have to trailer early on Friday, I make this mash and give small amounts during stops.
My horse ALWAYS tanks overnight.
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. ~ John Wayne
From: bwalker2@xxxxxxx To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [RC] rehydration Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 09:19:21 -0800
I agree. I've always wondered whether time in the trailer had any adverse affects on horses attending rides; i.e., more apt to require treatment than horses who had short trailer rides. I think this would be hard to collect data on, but it would be interesting.
On Nov 4, 2008, at 8:07 AM, Ann Blankenship wrote:
<snip> It seems to me that you can be the sort of person who reads Jim Bryant's piece about rehydration after travel, note that he mentions fluid depletion after 10 hours in a trailer and think hmmm... next time I truck my horse across the state I'll bear in mind that he might be more depleted than I thought, even though he's been drinking.
Somehow I missed this bit of information. So, how do we rehydrate our horses after a long trailer ride, other than IV? The obvious solution, I suppose, would be to arrive at our destination early enough to give them time to recover but how much earlier? If you trailer 8 hours, do you get there a day early? Two days? Pretty difficult to do since people do have to work and many times the ride venue is not available. Then we should take weather into consideration since those trailers get pretty hot in summer and I’m sure the horses lose more through sweat. Hmmm, would a 6 hour trailer ride on a hot day cause dehydration? I’m rambling but it is an interesting subject and applies to people other than endurance riders that may have a long trailer ride to horsecamp, etc.
