Best Vitamin E to buy

Oh crap. That's not good news. That will probably make it a similar price per day as the powders though... which will make my feed prep easier as I'll buy powder if they're the same price now!!
 
paddy555 said:
how much vit e in iu's does 4 scoops a day deliver.? I cannot find it anywhere on their site

natural vit e is not cheap.
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Crikey I wouldn't know without checking the pot. Maybe Google the manufacturers website - should tell you how many ius per scoop.
Of the gold label stuff, I feed two scoops a day
 
nikkimariet said:
Pharma horse. Pure vit E human grade supp. Cheap as chips.
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One version they sell contains selenium and is not safe for high dose horses. Also the site does not say it is natural, therefore I assume that it is synthetic, in which case you need to feed twice as much to get the same result, which of course doubles the price.


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Ours comes from progressive earth, its synthetic but it does the job, we had one with emnd and it helped keep him with us for a good while longer than we expected. I think a 5ml scoop is about 2000iu. Don't know how the price would compare but worth looking at.
 
Mynstrel said:
Ours comes from progressive earth, its synthetic but it does the job, we had one with emnd and it helped keep him with us for a good while longer than we expected. I think a 5ml scoop is about 2000iu. Don't know how the price would compare but worth looking at.
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All vitamin E works, but synthetic vitamin E has only half the chemical in the form the horse can use it.

You are in fact only feeding 1000iu per scoop, and you would probably find that if you allow for that, the natural version would be the same or cheaper.

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I have always used the oil as I think it is a lot easier that the powder would be. With the oil 10 seconds and it is gone. I would worry about them dropping feed or tipping feed buckets over and wasting it. Glad equimins is still the cheapest.
 
ycbm said:
All vitamin E works, but synthetic vitamin E has only half the chemical in the form the horse can use it.

You are in fact only feeding 1000iu per scoop, and you would probably find that if you allow for that, the natural version would be the same or cheaper.

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It was the best value I could find at the time we needed it, to get the best value every time I think its a case of doing the maths and seeing what's best when you meed it. We've tended to stick with them since because their advice was very good too, about that and other supplements.
 
To bump this up...

I've noticed Vitamin E oil from Forage Plus is a Silica carrier. Is that a bad thing?

I currently feed Equimins but its SO messy and hard to get the accurate measurer, I use tea spoons but its so sticky and just horrible.

I would like to switch to a powder.. but looking at Forage plus (I feed 10,000Iu) I'd have to feed a lot of it?
 

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Last time I looked Progressive earth's had less vitamin E in it per kilogram than Forage Plus.

When comparing prices you need to work out the price per 1000 iu, not the price per kilogram of the product.

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I used to use the forage plus one & got on fine with it. Seemed pallatable & a nice, fine powder. Fussiest horse in the world ate it fine
 
ycbm said:
When comparing prices you need to work out the price per 1000 iu, not the price per kilogram of the product.
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This is what I've been trying to do, but its difficult when its not disclosed very well. Equimins is great, but its just so sticky even now they have a different bottle.

Which one do you use @ycbm? I definitely want a powder for the future.
 
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