Feeding supplements

[bigbluebird13]

i've always tried to avoid feeding supplements, partly due to cost but also as I've tried to provide a balanced overall diet. However I now find that the number of supplements I'm feeding is growing! One for joints, calmer and a general vit/min one.
Am I unusual - I wondered how many different supplements other people out there fed and whether they were normally powder or liquid

 

[RachelB]

All mine are powder or granules, and I feed far too many! Mine (on box rest for torn tendon) has NAF Pink Powder as a balancer/ general supplement, NAF garlic granules for her breathing, Equine America Bleader Gard to help her nosebleeds, Equine America So Kalm to keep her sane, and salt just because I always have given it. I'm looking at giving her NAF 5* Superflex to ease her stiffness as well and would have liked to give her the liquid, but it works out more expensive so it will have to be the powder. I'm told liquid supplements are more readily absorbed in the gut.
Don't ask how much that all comes to, far far too much!

 

[charlottenicol]

Garlic and sunflower seeds are the only 2 I feed

 

[Nari]

They both get a general vit & min supplement. Jm also gets U-Gard Plus, Cortaflex & Feel Good 30 Science Formula calmer.

 

[chestnut cob]

I only feed a prebiotic, if he gets stressed, or when he moves onto different grazing (so onto summer paddocks from winter), and so on. I use Baileys Digest Plus. Used to feed Topspec Calmer but not any more.

 

[mandyl]

naf garlic for flies,top spec calmer and pink powder

 

[rubyred]

garlic and electrolytes as required

 

[Coffee_Bean]

garlic powder and cod liver oil.

 

[Moggy in Manolos]

my girls supplementation is relatively vast!
she gets;
cod liver oil
apple cider vinegar
glucosymine
laminaze 5*
garlic granules
all mixed into happy hoof along with a carrot and some brocolli!

 

[MagicMelon]

I have in my feed room: an all round vit & min supplement, Agnus Castus, Soya oil, Brewers Yeast, Electrolytes and NAF Superflex. But then I have 5 horses to split these between as nobody gets all that! Most I feed one horse is 3 of these supplements.

 

[_daisy_]

my feed room shelf has loads on unfortunately.
So far I have:
garlic
flyfree
mobifor liquid joint supplement
seaweed
equiliser calmer
formula4feet
electrolytes
laminaze
soya oil
veggie oil
molasses
danilon

I do have 5 horses so none of them get all of the above

 

[murphyboywoody]

I feed Blue Chip which they look really well on, but i also feed garlic and propell plus and also electrolytes when needed.

 

[Emma27]

i used to feed Feel Good 30 Parsley,garlic &linseed oil and Feel Good 30 Science Formula Calmer and he always looked in great shape

 

[Coffee_Bean]

Oh....but my friend's gets
cod liver oil
Apple Cider Vinegar
Cortaflex
Garlic Powder
Devils Claw, i think thats quite alot

 

[lizzie_liz]

Mine is on none, we have had her on various ones in the past due to her navicular and artheritis but TBH she does better without them!

 

[Governor]

I feed NAF general purpose supplement, Flexy Limbs (glucosamine/MSM) and Agnus Castus.

I always keep a tub of Pink Powder in the feed room too.

 

[riotgirl]

I just add NAF easy breathe to my Welshies feed as she is prone to coughing.

 

[xxcharlottexx]

Mine just has sunflower seeds and he will get garlic when the flies start to become a problem

still got some seaweed and rosehip supplement as my friend gave me a big tub of it!

he has the original horslyx when i bring him in to ride/feed/brush ect if that counts as a supplement?

 

[bigbluebird13]

Simarillion - sounds like how I got started on it all! Torn tendon and box rest so general purpose to top up on anything missing from limited diet, Cortaflex to help stiffness and the the So Kalm to keep him sane coming back into work!

 

[Chex]

I didn't used to feed supplements, but I do now. He gets a vit/min one, a joint supplement, cider vinegar and marmite.

 

[RachelB]

yup, she started on apple cider vinegar and salt when she was in work (was having recommended levels of hard food so didn't need a balancer), then started having nose troubles so went on the Bleader Gard, went off the ACV so started on Pink Powder as box rest started, and it just kept building up!

am going to see what the vet says before putting her on 20 other supplements to help her tendon (really I think all these things are more for my head than for her health, but they certainly aren't doing her any harm!) lol

 

[Theresa_F]

My boys get brewers yeast for sweet itch, linseed for joints and coats, total eclipse supplement for general min and vits. Cairo also gets corta-flx. In winter, I change the brewers yeast for garlic.

I don't feed any hard feeds, they have simple systems forage products.

I also feed black sunflower seeds - give great coat and have noticed a great improvement in their feet since adding them to their feeds.

 

[pootler]

Mine is on:

Top spec anti-lam balancer
Alpha A Oil

Apple Cider Vinegar
Mobifor (paid for by insurance thankfully!)
Simple Systems Instant Linseed

 

[druid]

Just 2, Ventilate (and she only requires it for the month of May each year, when the rape flowers) and MoodAid (stroppy mare supp.) which is Spring/Summer only.

Yearling has TopSpec Bloodtsock balancer but that's feed rather than a supplement really...

Ulcer boy has Acidex, but that's medication rather than a supplement...

 

[SouthWestWhippet]

I've been wondering about this because I've never been into supplements but my list seems to be growing as well.

Currently feed

> joint supplement (equimins flexijoint)
> garlic
> corn oil
> salt

in a scoop of working mix.

Is that a lot?

 

[Sags_Deer]

hoof power plus, garlic, cider vinegar, linseed, electrolytes in summer, pink powder.