Note: I don't have endurance miles. I do however
have many years of pleasure riding and marking trails for endurance rides and
managing rides.
Several years ago I had a wonderful trail
marking horse. He could have done endurance rides, it was me who was the
hold-up. However, there was one year where he started thumping. I was using the
Ridgeway elyte recipe. I ended up giving my horse 2 (35mm) canisters of
calcium each time I elyted him for about 3 months then cut it back to one
canister for another 3 to 4 months. After that he never seemed to have a
problem. I never changed his feed or the way we rode before or after his
thumping episodes, so really never figured out what caused it. Just know that he
got better with the added calcium.
Home from Gator Run ( what an
awesome week end, Connie and Mike run a fun, relaxed ride with lots of
food!!!:-))))) we did a 1 day 50 Sunday fairly moderate, I kept Miss T ( my
horse) behaving as well as I could as we are going to a 100 mile ride in 3
weeks so did not want to blow it at Gator Run anyway at the end of the ride
her HR would not come down, actually it was irregular , all over the place,(
60-80) however the rest of her appeared to be fine! She was not tired,
trotted out with lots of energy ,A's on gut sounds, dehydration cap refill
etc...,was perky, ears up, eating like a pig, the vets were worried but
puzzled as my horse did not look like she was in trouble but obviously
something not good was going on,. Anyway long story short eventually the
vet decided it was a calcium problem and tubed a whole bunch of water,calcium
and magnesium oxide into her. Within 40 min's Miss T's HR was down to 40 and
she has been perfect ever since.
SOOOO anyone had calcium issues?? I bought a jug of calcium/magnesium
oxide from Teddy ( Running Bear) and plan to use it at the next ride but then
started thinking about the calcium phosphorous ratio, can I screw things up
more ( or differently ) by giving her calcium???? The jug says to give 1/3 a
cup 3x a day and another 1/4 c just before a race so I assume that it cannot
be that bad , am having a foggy morning as I cannot seem to find
anything on the internet that is helpful so thought I would ask here!! The vet
suggested I switch elytes as perform n win does not have calcium, any
suggestions for other elytes?????
