Horse Blood Panel?

[AniSci]

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I'm a pre-vet student taking a basic animal nutrition class; we're focusing on vitamins and minerals right now, and we've got an assignment to list 5 minerals for an animal (I chose maintenance horse), and we have to list the function, recommended intake, the signs of deficiency/toxicity, the site(s) of measurement when testing for deficiency/toxicity, and the normal ranges that are used for these tests.

I chose: Selenium, Iron, Copper, Iodine, and Zinc.

I can't find ANYTHING on the normal ranges.
Could a professional vet student help me out? :/ Or at least give me a good link to a source where I could find the info myself?

 

[that redhead]

I would look for the NRC's Nutrient Requirements of Horses...they may have reference ranges.

Also, a quick google search for "normal selenium levels in horses" yielded this paper (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2364704) where they mention 0.1ppm as a normal blood level for selenium.