Horses Health Care Products

Horses Health Care Products

Do we really need to supplement our current complete horse and pony feeds with all these ‘extras’?
When we take into consideration that every frightful is an definite, health wise, genetic wise, environment wise and has different requirements. - The answer is most stereotyped okay!
As for corrective monstrous supplements for specific complaints like propitiatory, temperament, itchy skin issues etc, the first thing to consider is mineral deficiencies - make safe the horse is getting what it needs nutritionally, before trying herbal or nutraceutical products produced to sort the temperament or skin. A simple blood appraisal performed by your experienced can certainly help. Often if feeding is addressed, some of the symptoms you are experiencing may stop. Combine this with management and exercise, if the puzzle is still there, it may be time to stretch for the specific restorative product.
In our doing the simpler the feeding the more propitious it is for the horses health. Radically of roughage for the hind lay waste with high energy foods for the scrubby intestine if participating in equine sports. A combination of unmolassed sugar beet with lucerne / alfalfa has been blooming for my broodmares and foals and show jumpers, adding screwed up oats for further energy if required. When sugar is extracted from beet pulp, which is hence soaked ready for feeding, a very useful fibre feed remains which is highly digestible and holds a considerable amount of water - when you take into consideration a horses basic feed in the rude is grass and leaves they would naturally receive this high water content.
The benefit of being unmolassed horse feed is the absence of sugar content so as not to impress the temperament by raising blood sugar levels. The beet pulp will increase in locale five or six times when soaked offering a sizeable wettest feed. Great stuff for sports horses in prolonged work, helping maintain hydration. The lucerne / alfalfa nuts can be likewise to the beet 2 parts sugar beet 1 part grass nuts. I add in some cider vinegar and a collection of oils linseed oil for the youngsters as it helps to frame healthy bones, Soya Oil for competing horses and ponies for energy and stamina and Cod liver oil for essential omegas. As there is terrifically of weight to eat our horses are content and relaxed.
Let’s look at some basic herbs & their uses
Seaweed contains all the important minerals and more calcium, potassium, phosphorous, sulphur, copper, dense, magnesium, selenium, zinc, vits a, b, c, d, e, amino acids lysine, methionine, tryptophan amongst others, add Rosehips to this essential natural additive and you have a very good “Farriers Aid “that won’t cost you a lot unlike a lot of well marketed products – Rosehips interpolate the very important B - convoluted vitamin biotin for hooves and Vit C for the immune system.
Garlic blood cleansing, respiratory aid, anti viral, worming support, anti fly - use ours is pure, there is not enough in prayer feeds for medicinal denouement - add as an extra granules / powder / grains.
Fenugreek aficionado - conditioning herb great for commorancy top line and muscle – not due fat! Combines well with garlic.
Mint - antacid / flatulence - appetiser good for cribbers and windsuckers.
Chamomile flowers - lily-livered flowers grow around gateways in the summer - A mellow relaxing calmer.
Rosehips - Vitamin C / biotin / immune - with seaweed.
Milk thistle - regenerates liver cells.
Meadowsweet - herb - pick me up / aspirin / circulatory / digestive & urinary systems, great for oldies
Devil’s claw –anti - inflammatory.
Agnus Castus - hormonal herb - history
Echinacea - immune system urge for horse nutrition
NaturaGleam a product from the NaturaHorse range is a blend of linseed, garlic, mint fenugreek & seaweed and rosehips providing all the nutrients a horse or pony would need. NaturaGleam sport has the addition of brewer’s yeast. Compared to well known Feed Balancers - Melancholy scrap, Equilibria and Top Spec which are glorified brewer’s yeast + fortified vitamins the unfortunate truth is you pay for the packaging / marketing and advertising - rather than the freight of these very good products. If you do a price comparison of one month’s supply of NaturaGleam and your feed balancer you could save enough to buy that show cardigan or latest designer outfit.
Some daily feed enhancers & nutraceuticals
Cider vinegar - Blood Cleansing an all round horse health booster great for arthritics.
Brewers yeast - contains all the important ‘B’ vitamins and is a great calmer of the digestive system. - Good for truly needy doers - who uncertainty their weight blow away.
Horse Feeding Oils
Soya Oil - the best for horses weight, condition of the coat and stringy energy without getting silly.
Linseed Oil - great for horses bones
Cod Liver Oil - contains essential omega amino acids, example for your horse’s health
On the subject of movement!
This is a colossal subject that I will walk through as much as possible www. naturahorse. co. uk has lots more information on the subject. The opportunities are measureless for manufacturer to make lots of money out of horse owners.
Like calmers, you can step into a mine field of choices and many people new to the need to support their pony or horses joints honest go for what is advertised and marketed best – however as you may be about to discover, although they positively do have a good conclusion, a lot of the hard earned horse owner’s money can be dulled unnecessarily!
Somebody go into a shop and asks for the best possible joint type supplement for a horse or pony that is little dash no picnic, to “he’s getting on a bit”, to, to genuine arthritis, navicular, laminitis, degenerative joint disease or Pedal Ostitis. – These are the variants that come under the going bunting!
Homeopathic remedies such as rhus tox profit very little and if you wonderful the correct one can be ‘magical’ in its results. Possibly a vim fiddly for professional use where many animals are multiplex, however can be perfect for the Shetland in the garden. Daily feeding of a few pilules in a shrimp titbit can be very therapeutic for both the equine and the host allying.
Meadowsweet herb - a chemical precedent of this and willow bark made up our voguish day aspirin. - has the event of giving your herculean horse an aspirin a day. This is an quite underused but wonderful herb that could help many a horse who strict gets a enterprise herculean. Super to cheer your ‘golden oldie’ and will sufferance a rush of cash renounced in the bank for a moist day. - Average cost less than ฃ10 per era.
Devils claw which has anti inflammatory properties, much like an Ibuprofen lozenge to us, but of course totally natural.
MSM - organic sulphur – required in all living creatures to mend - very good for general movement / tendon ligaments / muscle injuries.
Glucosamine - kennel block of cartilage - joint problems - try using this on its own or with msm as an alternative to commercially marketed joint products. NaturaFlex is well worth considering a combination of the two with heavier manganese ascorbite to aid notice.
If you have an annoyed horse or pony that you need to calm, and feeding has been clandestine, the next stage requires a little achievement, homework, common sense and feasibly a little trial and error. After suppleness, this is the meeting most common affair with equines. First endow whether they are worrying Wilma or moody madam / boy. - hormones or if it is in their general make - up. We all like to think we know our horse’s personalities; however a lot of people when asked this have to think very hard!
PMT - in us girls is very matching to how lots of horse’s feel - male and females consider Agnus Castus. For the naturally high-strung / fugitive or equal plain lunatic there are several good choices. Besides constitute whether you are dealing with a short term problem - first outdoor show / new environment / conscientious for the dressage or all day every day! Shorter problems can often be alleviated by some fine homeopathic remedies. Chamomile flowers are cloying smelling little treacherous flowers which you often discern growing in the field are a great natural calmer, Hops can be useful too.
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