Electrolytes need to be given correctly to help your horse

Holistic Horseworks Talks with April Love

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As summer approaches many horsemen will supplement their horses with electrolytes.
Are added electrolytes necessary? Is it good to give electrolytes? Or is it a waste of money? What should a horse owner do?

The worst thing I've seen, and I didn't know when I first got horses was that salt lick that we put out in the field so if they needed it, they were supposed to get it. Look at a horse’s tongue, it's very soft.

The salt licks were just really meant for cows’ tongues that are really rough and it's not organic iodine. A better way if you want to see what they need salt-wise is the Himalayan salt lick that hangs on a little rope in the stall.

I always preferred the Dynamite Dynaspark. I can squirt some in their mouth. I could put it in their water, I could put it on their hay when we were hauling,
I've worked on horses and when I'm rubbing around their tail, I'll notice they have diarrhea and the people are like, "Yeah, we've been working on that diarrhea with the vet," I ask, “So are you giving them powdered electrolytes? They are like,” Yeah. How did you know?
You're giving them too much. It's going to give them diarrhea, it's going to make everything shoot out.

I just give my horses a little syringe of Dynaspark and they would try and eat the syringe. All the other horses at the water trough would be sniffing it and trying to eat my syringe. And the other endurance riders would say, What do you have in there? My horse wants it.

I said, "Electrolytes." They go, "They hate electrolytes!"
It's because you're giving them a powder and it burns their esophagus and it's too much of a concentrate and their whole mouth is just like bleh!

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