How essential is salt in your horse’s diet? Very!
In part one of my article on how essential salt is in your horse’s diet, I explained why table salt can help improve the absorption of essential minerals and how it can help boost the immune system and help protect against illnesses coming from the feed under certain conditions. This time I plan to explain why sodium chloride (NaCl) is needed to prevent other major problems, why it is needed more so at certain times of the year than others and why just providing loose lick or ad lib salt doesn’t always work.
Salt is very important for the transport of nutrients into the body. In fact, without sufficient sodium in the diet, the absorption of carbohydrates and protein just wouldn’t occur, along with many other nutrients in the diet. When feed is digested in the stomach and small intestine, it is
