I have always tried to get to a ride at least a day early to let my horse settle in better, drink, see horses arrive (rather than plop him down into a full and chaotic ridecamp) and he's done better with that protocol.
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--- On Tue, 11/4/08, Ann Blankenship <greenwoodann@xxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Ann Blankenship <greenwoodann@xxxxxxx> Subject: [RC] rehydration To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 4:07 PM
<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.
