After the dog thread, I am curious - what supplements do you feed?

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No bias to my question, or really any reason, I'm just being nosey and you never know what you might learn!

What supplements do you feed and why?


Dex - 4yo - light work
- marigolds and cleavers from Ebay, because his legs fill
- Devils claw root again just cheap from Ebay - just finishing the bag, started feeding during a growth spurt 3 months ago
 
I am a supplement lover mine gets the following -
Trinity consultant -rexflo , brilliant stuff for good doers
Cinnamon- for insulin levels and palatability
Thunderbrooks -skin and respiration supplement
Marigold and cleavers - Prevent Cpl/filled legs
I use vitamin E in winter
 
My native is fed:

Pro Balance Basic
Equine Answers joint supplement
Vitamin E
Coopers Gut Support
Oily herbs

In the Spring & Autumn he either has magnesium oxide or Calm Healthy Horses Alleviate C to counteract the grass growth.
 
Mine is also 4 and in light work (recently broken-in)

Oregano
Rosemary
Thyme
Seaweed
Rosehips
Nettle
Cleavers
Aloe Vera (not sure if that counts?)

Fed for general well being and she also has a couple of sarcoids which they seem to be helping with. Aloe Vera as she’s had a lot of change recently so using it as a preventative 🤞🏼
 
None apart from Selenium weekly as pasture here is selenium deficient. I get horses levels done annually and they are always spot on. Put salt in her feed. She looks amazing and is going really well, fit and happy.
 
My spotty boy has a balancer which is super concentrated so is practically a supplement. It’s Equimins Tip Top Supplement which comes in powder or pellet form. I give him the pellet form currently with his chaff. Not a supplement but is now on 1 satchet of Danilon per day for his arthritis. I used to give him yumove and before that have tried many supplements but felt he needed a bit more help now so stopped them and changed to an NSAID.

The spotty mare is on yumove joint supplement as she is 16 and needs a bit of help.

And that’s it!
 
One of mine gets Acid Ease and 4Cyte. She used to get Hedgerow Herbs too, but I didn't see any real results. One Shetland gets Yumove and the other nothing at all. There are many salt licks available to them.
 
Ziggy gets Aviform Biodura for his feet, I get to sneak some salt in now and then!

Alf gets Balsamic air and Balsamic control as I’m told he can get a cough in winter so I’m trying to prevent rather than cure.
I also give him vitamin E and salt.
 
TB and ISH get:

Equine Answers 365 balancer (year round)
Equine Answers Mud Warrior (Autumn and winter as they live out)

TB also gets Hilton Herbs gastrix as he's had ulcers previously

Am also considering oily herbs after reading the resurrected thread the other day.
 
Dave has Max Gut Health, MgOx (our area is low Mg), salt & oily herbs.
I'm about to try him on Trinity Consultants EvenKeel 1, to see if it helps with his general anxiety.
 
More powder than feed here it seems

Chip
Oily herbs (thyme, oregano, rosemary & dried mint)
Salt
Brewers Yeast
Yea sacc
Mycosorb
Progressive Earth ProBalance Plus (vit/min balancer)
Milk Thistle
Magnesium oxide
Vitamin e (natural)

Other two
Oily herbs
Salt
Vit e (natural)
Progressive Earth ProBalance
Mag ox
Brewers yeast
Fat Cob gets a joint supplement
Ex trotter gets a bute alternative (still a prescription nsaid)
 
Safe salt
Glucosamine and MSM
Gut balancer
Placid
Aloe Vera
About to add marigold and cleavers
Alongside spillers lite and lean
 
I feel less excessive now 🤣

I have one on gastri-aid
(And spillers daily balancer and honeychop topline and shine chaff)

One on vetrofen
(and sarascens super fibre cubes)

One on 4 feet (biotin)
(and daily balancer)

I use appleytes in season when they’re properly working and best flex HA in season too.
 
Ours do literally nothing other than munch grass or hay so… nothing. But when they were in work this is what they got:

They were both fed Bailey’s Lo-Cal Balancer (to avoid having to buy too many supplements) and had garlic powder added in summer to help with the flys.

They both had Speedi Beet instead of chaff for fibre/bulk bc we could make them a warm feed in winter and prefer them to have a wet feed.

Dusty
Oestress
Oats (for energy)

Shannon
Turmeric (hock issues: could only go in straight lines i.e hacking and had hocks injected. I read somewhere it could help with inflammation?? and at the time she was in very low level work so it was more preventative and to give my anxiety some respite)
 
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Dave's Mam said:
Dave has Max Gut Health, MgOx (our area is low Mg), salt & oily herbs.
I'm about to try him on Trinity Consultants EvenKeel 1, to see if it helps with his general anxiety.
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Can highly recommend Even Keel. I used the one with valerian in as would not be competing, it replaced whatever drug the vet gave me and was actually more effective.The advice Simon gave was super helpful and he was correct in saying the horse could be weaned off it. Trinity Consultants are brilliant!
 
Newish 2 1/2 year old mare, looks like an internal worrier which is being worked on as had a big move and change. Is settling into a winter routine slowly.

Alongside topspec stud balancer, she has the following and will come off when she has settled.
equine america so kalm liquid
Equine america uls-gard pellets - to help settle gut alongside calmer
Equine america supreme oil
Salt

Also has these until finished, had some left from my old boy and for the cost I can't bear to throw away
Feedmark hedgerow herbs
NAF mint and garlic- eats better with this.

She is a highland, so will be adding joint support when starting work to help reduce wear and tear where possible.
 
Both mine get the same, Raf is a 9yo welsh B stallion used for breeding and showing and Olly is a TB stallion used for dressage and breeding.

Equifeast Lamicore balancer- found this compliments my hay and pasture the best
Acid Buf gut powder- buy this in bulk from my local NWF
 
I thought I fed a lot but looking at this...


Mine gets:

- Oily herbs (thyme oregano rosemary)

- Equimins Advanced Complete

- MSM (mixed in with the Equimins to make it easy for the yard)

- Extra Vit E (mixed in with the Equimins to make it easy for the yard. Didn't feed in the summer but has dropped weight so added for the winter)
 
Nothing, here. They're both on Pure Working, now, which is a complete feed. Gelding is in very light work (hacking 3 times a week) and old mare is retired and never needed much anyway. I used to feed brewer's yeast and linseed or haylage balancer when my mare struggled with her hind gut (don't tell shouty vet), but she doesn't really suffer since retiring! They are in a lovely field that has a massive variety of grasses, wildflowers and hedging, shrubbery, overhanging beech and ash...
 
Both mares are showjumping weekly.
Both get:
Lubrisyn
Glucousamine
Aloe Vera
Linseed Oil
Oily Herbs
Marigolds
Cleavers
Nettles
Echinacea
Boswellia
Mint
Fenugreek
Meadowsweet

I just put a scoop of each herb in to each feed, only fed once a day.
 
Mine all get a feed balancer.
One has milk thistle.
And the shetland has sweet itch so is on Black Salt, Nicotinamide tablets, brewers yeast and seaweed. Do they help? I'm not sure....
 
Far too many!
They all get
Selenavite (sycamore next to pasture and I don't test grass/forage so like to feed a broad spec)
Garlic
Seaweed and rosehips
Oily herbs
The sec D mare also gets
Glucosamine
Aloe vera
Probiotics
The old boy also gets
Collagen
Boswellia
Riaflex
Probiotics
The small pony also gets
Collagen
Glucosamine.
I'm sure I could cut back/make that more efficient, but they look to be doing well on it. I do make up tubs when someone else has to feed though, otherwise my instructions take up a full page 😅
 
Fransurrey said:
Nothing, here. They're both on Pure Working, now, which is a complete feed. Gelding is in very light work (hacking 3 times a week) and old mare is retired and never needed much anyway. I used to feed brewer's yeast and linseed or haylage balancer when my mare struggled with her hind gut (don't tell shouty vet), but she doesn't really suffer since retiring! They are in a lovely field that has a massive variety of grasses, wildflowers and hedging, shrubbery, overhanging beech and ash...
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It sounds like yours get plenty from their grazing, but just be careful with this as the feeding rate to have it work as a complete feed are rather a lot! I realised that as I wasn't feeding enough, or intending to, I was essentially buying an expensive chaff so swapped to a chaff at half the price per bag!

Hallo2012 said:
Both mine get the same, Raf is a 9yo welsh B stallion used for breeding and showing and Olly is a TB stallion used for dressage and breeding.

Equifeast Lamicore balancer- found this compliments my hay and pasture the best
Acid Buf gut powder- buy this in bulk from my local NWF
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Out of interest, did you get your grazing tested?
 
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