Advice on feeding needed

[Fiftyshades]

Hello,

I am hoping to get some opinions on what supplements my loan horse currently has and what you think she perhaps could do without/with.

Her supplements are Apple Cider Vineger, Tumeric, Biotin, Naf vitamin e selenium and lysine and garlic infused cold pressed rapeseed oil. Also magnesium in the summer months. These are what her owner had her on.

I have had a few people say to me to take her off them except Tumeric and magnesium and get her a balancer as her feed is large so the supplements are going straight through her anyway.

Any opinions ? Or do you need more info?

Thanks in advance 😊

 

[JillA]

I'd want to know and understand the reasons behind them all - it suggests she has a degenerative joint condition such as arthritis, bad feet, a selenium and a magnesium deficiency and needs more condition. Are any of them the case do you know? Have bloods shown a selenium or magnesium deficiency - maybe you should get more information from her owner.

 

[Fiftyshades]

I'd want to know and understand the reasons behind them all - it suggests she has a degenerative joint condition such as arthritis, bad feet, a selenium and a magnesium deficiency and needs more condition. Are any of them the case do you know? Have bloods shown a selenium or magnesium deficiency - maybe you should get more information from her owner.

Thank you for your reply. She does have bad feet but has only been on the selenium for the last month. The magnesium is to calm her down and her owner (she is stabled at the owners yard) has her own horse on these as well. Everyone else has said she doesn't need them and they are unnecessary as she doesn't have any deficenies or anything. I will maybe talk it through with the girls at the yard and her owner to see what I can cut down on 😊.

 

[JillA]

Too much selenium is as bad as not enough so blood testing is the only way to assess the need really. And the same applies to magnesium - those are two you could cut out and be ready to reintroduce if the old problems resurface. The stuff for DJD is a bit more difficult, although it is belt and braces inasmuch as it does it all twice over, but if you stop it you could allow long term problems back in, and would need a loading dose to restart.