Re: formula for energy expenditure

[Susan Evans Garlinghouse <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>]

Tivers wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 98-03-05 19:11:06 EST, suendavid@worldnet.att.net writes:
> 
> << Thanks, Joe, I agree that a reasonable increase in rations are okay.  My
>  concern would be for someone trying to pack twenty pounds of grain into
>  a horse in the trailer on the way home.
> 
>  Susan >>
> 
> This is where sugar/chromium comes in. Concentrated carbs with a muscle
> driver. You don't have to feed a lot of weight and hope that there is adequate
> hydration in the horse.
> 
> ti

I would probably be alot happier with small, frequent doses of a sugar
source to restore and maintain blood glucose vs. pounding a whole lot of
grain down a horse's throat right after a ride.  I'm mostly concerned
about the pH and fluid shifts that occur in response to a large
carbohydrate overload.  I would assume that a dose of carbo loader after
a ride would not affect the hindgut in the same way that 2 kgs of corn
would.  Tom, can you tell me what sugars are in the carbo-loader you
recommend?  Mono-, di-, polysaccharides...?

Susan