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Could any one recommend an electrolyte to use for an endurance horse, and how do you use them, I've looked on line at several different brands but they all seem to contain different levels particularly magnesium and potassium, I've also noticed a wide variation in sodium. Would you give a...

Tony J Cuhna Horse Feeding and Nutrition is the one I would choose to read with Frape, its easier to extract the info from and helps to make sense of what Frape is talking about as Americans tend to use simpler scientific terms

I think the main thrust from the governmental representative at the conference was that the UK had a target to hit and a fine to pay if it didn't nmanage to hit it, I don't think economics came into the equation at all, and though we are now in recession the plans for straw burning were in place...

I think eventually it will be a win win situation for the farmers, the message at the conference was oil and its derivatives bad, plants and their derivatives (packaging, bottles, medicine etc) good! In the future will farmers grow crops to supply energy and industry rather than for agriculture...

I ve just been to a conference on biomass fuel and the government are planning to take most of the straw in the UK (7.2 million tons)by 2015 and the predicted price for straw will be around £15 per bale, I guess the price of shavings will also increase, time to find an alternative?

The vet has identified two bacteria, Escherichia Fergusonii and Enterococcus faecium and I believe the plant extract in the Gastro-g is from the maytenus family, apparently it is grown in Brazil as a medicinal crop with certain set growing and weather conditions to ensure its contains an...

My vet recommended the use of this particular natural treatment because it has anti bacterial, analgesic, anti inflammatory properties as well as being a proton pump inhibitor with high levels of anti oxidants. I believe it is a primary health care medicine in both Brazil and Japan, my vet has...

Has anyone heard or tried a product called Gastro-G its a proton pump inhibitor that is supposed to treat gastric ulcers including hind gut and those caused by bacterial infection? I'm about to buy some as its a fraction of the cost of Gastrogard (£130 for 1 month course) I have a lovely...

I'm really worried and unsure about all this as I am doing my first big event and I have heard that a number of horses will be tested, also my friends son is a chemistry student and he thinks coumarin levels are high enough in alfalfa to give a positive test especially in the leaner thoroughbred...

Thanks for this info its worse than I thought does this mean I can only feed hay and not turn my horse out if I'm competeing and does anyone know the withdrawal times?

I have heard from a vet friend that meadow sweet may contain a controlled or prohibited substance and I am giving my horse a natural bute type of product containing meadow sweet and with the new rule changes I dont want a positive test. I have rung the manufacturer but they say its OK. I have...