DIY: Emergency Electrolytes for your horse
Hi everyone This is the first real post on this Horsieherbs blog. Today we are going to talk about electrolytes. So why do we give out horses electrolytes? First of all we want to help our horse right?! So everytime we have a hard ride and the horse has been sweating really much, we ad a bit of electrolyttes in their feed. We can give them in their mash, which most horses likes. Some horses don't actually like the taste of electrolyttes if you put it directly in the water for the horse. So in able to hide the taste, you can put it the feed for the horse. The thing is electrolyttes only really works, if they are given every day. Why is this? Well electrolytes are actually minerals (salts), the horse needs to keep a healthy fluid balance in the horse's body. The electrolytes binds the fluid to the body, which helps the horse to have that balance of fluid in their body, if the horse have been sweating the minerals out, if it has had a hard training. It's best if the horse