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You are right that it pays to have your forage tested, regardless of where you live. 

 

Even in areas like yours that are high in selenium, it is my understanding that truly toxic levels are still rare, though.

 

Heidi

 

 

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Subject: Re: [RC] Selenium per Susan Garlinghouse
From: "Carla Richardson" <richardson.carla@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, December 18, 2008 9:28 am
To: heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

It's not so rare around here.  The Gunnison River Basin and the Colorado River basin are areas where high concentration of Se is found in the irrigation water, and thus in low lying meadows where hay is often grown, you can have high concentration of Se in the grass and hay.

 

Here are two links to websites, anyone in western Colorado might want to have their hay tested.  It's always a good idea to have your hay tested, no matter where you live, so you'll know what you're really feeding in terms of protein and minerals.

 

http://www.myequinenetwork.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=DrWksSOgYps%3D&tabid=87&mid=534 

 

http://www.coopext.colostate.edu/TRA/PLANTS/index.html#http://www.coopext.colostate.edu/TRA/PLANTS/soil.htmlhttp://www.coopext.colostate.edu/TRA/PLANTS/soil.html

 

Carla Richardson

Colorado

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:15 AM, <heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 

<<Additionally, one would have to live in an area where there are practically toxic levels in the forage (rare indeed!) in order to get any sort of toxicity from any normal levels of supplementation. >>

 

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