Re: Electrolytes, loose salt/mins, etc.


"cindi" <allisonacres@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Lizzardwoman wrote:
| > I took Sheila's advice and tried to buy some loose salt (and loose
minerals)
| > for Pancake last weekend. They didn't have it at the store. So I
bought
| > powdered "Electrolytes," the ingredients of which were largely salt and
| > minerals. Hmmm.
| >
| > Is there a difference between "electrolytes" and "salt plus minerals" or
is
| > it all marketing and packaging?
|
| Yes, there is an academic difference, but not necessarily much of a
| difference in equine products, other than that most loose minerals are
| meant to be fed free choice and most electrolytes are a paste or a top
| dress fed at a measured rate. Electrolytes are the minerals that the
| body uses to maintain proper functioning of nerves and muscles, as well
| as proper fluid makeup of various body areas, and acid-base balance.
| Electrolytes are sodium, potassium and chloride (and maybe one more
| thing - not an elemental mineral - bicarbonate I think.) Then other
| than the electrolytes there are the rest of the minerals, required in
| varying quantities, some considered "trace". Iron, magnesium, zinc,
| iodine... Those are some macro-minerals. Some of the trace minerals
| would include copper, selenium, um, boron. You can surely google it.

Okay so "minerals" likely includes the electrolyte elements (plus bicarb),
yes?

(snip)

| They make another mineral product that's given by measure and contains:
| Sulfur, Magnesium, Cobalt, Phosphorous, Nickel, Iron, Copper, Nitrogen,
| Chlorine, Titanium, Aluminum, Manganese, Silicon, Zinc, Silver, Sodium,
| Calcium, Potassium, Chromium, Zinc. Including traces of Barium,
| Neodymium, Yttrium, Gallium, Lanthanum, Vanadium, Zirconium, Scandium,
| Strontium, Cadmium, Rubidium, Beryllium, Praseodymium, Cerium.

Aminals don't need some of those elements AFAIK... I think they just come
along with the mineral source that they use for other wanted elements.

Here's my understanding...

1. macronutrients that are supplied in food (N, P, S plus C) (usually in
WT%)
2. minor nutrients supplied in food or as supplement (Ca, Mg, Mn, K, Na,
Cl, etc.) (usually in ppt)
3. micronutrients in food or as supplement (trace metals) (usually in ppm)

Pancake used to get a scoop of loose salt and a smaller scoop of loose
"minerals" in Calgary.

Here is has a mineral salt lick.

I bought him a jar of loose "electrolytes" (cherry flavored) and I'll have
to get the ingredients list.

After that is gone, I will put him on loose salt and loose minerals like he
was getting in Calgary. Any recommendations?

Thanks,

sharon

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