Equifeast supplements

[Panto Horse]

Hi,
does anyone have any experience using the Equifeast supplements, namely, Cool Calm & Collected, Sensible Essentials & or Winningedge Silver or Gold?

 

[Buddy'sMum]

Nope, and until Equifeast actually publish data demonstrating the effectiveness of their wonder products in a peer-reviewed journal, I won't be wasting my money on them!

 

[Flibble]

Hi,
does anyone have any experience using the Equifeast supplements, namely, Cool Calm & Collected, Sensible Essentials & or Winningedge Silver or Gold?

Yes I have. My horse is on Cool Calm and Collected. It has taken a little while to get the balance right but Equifeast have been very helpful and it has made a major difference to my horse.

Not the first thing I tried but the first that worked.

 

[Booboos]

CCC made a huge difference to my horse and he would revert back to his more challenging behaviour every time I took him off it.

 

[sjp1]

Yes, cc and c. It has helped us a lot. He got worse over the loading period and then improved a lot.

With a try I would say.

 

[The wife]

Love it. Got one on it, a very nervous, over reactive WB. Just 2 weeks after starting it he was on exercise with a quarter sheet on and exercised in gale force winds both of which we had never even considered before... However, at competitions I haven't really noticed a difference, which is a shame but at home he is a different horse. It is almost like the adrenaline takes over the effects of it. Would highly recommend though

 

[Fuzzypuff]

Yes I tried CC&C. Horse was originally on Horse First Relax Me, but I liked the idea of the Winning Edge products so thought I would try the CC&C and then switch him onto Winning Edge. Well the CC&C was a bit of a disaster, he turned into a demon and I switched back to Relax Me soon after! I think part of the problem was I called them to discuss it before starting him on it, the person I spoke to didn't listen to what I said properly and made his own assumptions and decided my horse should have the mag free version which was a big mistake! I did then speak to someone else afterwards, he was more helpful and sent me some flavourings as my horse was refusing to eat the stuff (but did with the flavourings) and he had me add extra magnesium to the mag free version, but even then it wasn't working and I gave up on it. Annoyingly I didn't realise at the time they have a money back guarantee as I could have got my money back!

 

[Fides]

Heather Moffett has just started using it on her new boy and really rates it. You could try PMing her in Facebook - she's really nice and approachable...

 

[Victoc]

I've had my horse (spooky Warmblood) on Cool, Calm and Collected (standard magnesium version) for almost a year and it's worked fantastically for me, I've been really pleased. Took 2-3 weeks of the loading dose before I started to notice a real difference but he's been so much better with it. Granted he still has his off days (particularly now it seems with the spring grass coming through unfortunately) but we've gone from the odd good session of schooling amongst weeks of battles (through being really distracted and quite spooky and really uncooperative) before CCC, to consistently great schooling sessions for months with occasional bad days mixed in.

Equifeast as a company is great as well, really helpful and adjust things if you're having issues. They've also sent me out free testers for other products such as Optimax when I wanted a bit more 'calming' help for our first show in a few years and also sent samples of flavouring you can add to the supplements if palatability is a problem. Palatability hasn't been a problem with me with the CCC other than when I was giving the loading dose as it's quite large amounts of powder which I was feeding in the summer when my horse's feeds were tiny, and he's quite fussy. You can buy it in peppermint flavour, which I started doing and he ate that fine.

I tried loads of calmers before discovering Equifeast (Equine America, Naf, Blue Chip), none of which had any effect on my horse and I contacted Blue Chip when my horse turned his nose up completely at their very expensive calmer (which was vanilla flavour - since when do horses eat vanilla??) and they were very unhelpful and couldn't care less.

I suppose the key with this is it's not a 'calmer' so to speak, it's a 'brain' supplement really with the minerals in it to help the horse's brain function properly if they're deficient in the right form of calcium they need for brain cell function and/or magnesium (which I think my horse had become).

If you try it and it doesn't seem to be doing anything then do get in touch with them - they genuinely seem to want to help and will adjust things to hopefully work for the horse in the end. Oh and another benefit is it isn't expensive!

 

[Belle90]

I tried my horse on this last year . Three weeks into the loading period and he was a nightmare . He was trashing electric fencing , striking out at people ,trying to bite . There was no way I could ride him . He's always been forward but when he was on this I was so scared of what I had done to him I got my vet out . He told me to immediately take him off it and two days later he was back to himself . I rang equifeast and they said as I didn't finish the loading period I could not have my money back . I guess it works well for some horses but it turned mine into a nutcase.