Formula 4 Feet and barefoot/unshod horses

[HashRouge]

Does anyone else use Formula 4 Feet? I want to give a massive thumbs up to this product, as my mare does absolutely brilliantly on it. I have tried both Metabalance (which she wouldn't eat!) and Prohoof but she is definitely happiest on the Formula 4 Feet. She is able to stride out on any surface and doesn't even flinch at the loose stones that used to trouble her when she was on Prohoof. My sister's horse does well on Prohoof, and they are kept in the same field and fed the same soaked hay and special low sugar haylage. They also have the exact same feed, the only difference being that my mare has a joint supplement and prascend for cushings. I have tried Prohoof several times, but I have now concluded that for whatever reason she does much better on Formula 4 Feet. I don't really understand it, but I suppose ours is not to reason why

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

Yes the Lami society recommended it for my late mare. It really helped her feet. So I decided to put all the others on it as well.

Thumbs up from me too

I tried Hoofmender which helped too, but my donkey would not eat it.

 

[cm2581]

Whatever is in Formula 4 Feet must balance where your horses are/what they are fed/there specific needs better than Prohoof. There's lots of people/horses who will be vice versa! It's good that you've found something that something works.

 

[flintfootfilly]

The only time I fed Formula4Feet was when we were worried that my ponies had had an overdose of selenium in their diet, so I deliberately chose a vit/min that had negligible selenium in it.

Only kept them on it for a few weeks and then started on a vit/min powder with more appropriate level of selenium for the longer term.

F4F would definitely not provide sufficient selenium to bring my own grazing/forage levels up to the NRC recommended minimum daily intake, but I can see that F4F could be useful for those people who know that their forage is already providing enough selenium.

Sarah