Human tablets in Horses feed?

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Does anyone do this? There was a thread a little while ago but can't find it now. I was wondering wether it would be cheaper to buy Glucosimine tablets meant for humans and add them to Ruby's feed?
 
Yes, I feed human glucosamine to mine - and I even use the stuff obtained from shellfish that lots of people say you shouldn't because horses don't eat fish. My answer to that is it's not fish, it's glucosamine, a chemical with the same formula whether it came from algae or from shellfish.

I also feed human MSM, human vitamin E and use human suntan lotion and aloe vera. It saves a lot of money not buying stuff with a picture of a horse on it.


Simplysupplements.co.uk was the cheapest place for glucosamine last time I bought it. I fed 5 1000mg tablets to a 650 kg horse, same dose as in one of the major supplements.
 
I used to give my horse Vitamin C tablets from Tesco for a throat problem he had. The human dose was 1 per day, so I just kind of calculated how many humans would go into his robust body and ended up giving him 6 per day. It did work though because he recovered!
 
My dog does really well on the human ones, but to feed the amount a horse needs it's actually cheaper to buy the equine versions!!
 
My vets says you need a supplement to give 10,000 mg daily in an available form and that's the difficult bit finding an available form to feed .
 
So cptrayes daily cost us 23p feeding 5000mg, double that to get the 10,000mg I givemaintenance of vetvits and equine America costing
 
So cptrayes daily cost us 23p feeding 5000mg, double that to get the 10,000mg I give. Whereas u pay 60p per day but also have chondroitin and msm etc... So human form not do cost effective
 
competitiondiva said:
So cptrayes daily cost us 23p feeding 5000mg, double that to get the 10,000mg I give. Whereas u pay 60p per day but also have chondroitin and msm etc... So human form not do cost effective
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My horse seemed to do very well on 5000mg a day plus 10g of MSM, total cost including the MSM 26p a day, glucosamine alone 14p a day.

How much MSM did your stuff have in it? Is there any evidence that chondroitin does any good? There is precious little evidence for glucosamine, but it works for my arthiritic fingers, so I feed it. Cheapest I can find Equine America Cortaflex is £34 for 65 days for a 500 kg horse, nearly 50p per day.

Since glucosamine and MSM did the job for my horse's spavins I couldn't see the point of paying over double to have a bit of chondroitin. So basically, if your horse does not need chondroitin, it's half the price to feed human stuff if you use MSM too, and about a quarter if you only use glucosamine.
 
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Sorry was my phones predictive text gone wrong!!! Meant to say I pay 60p/day for 10,000mg glucosamine plus chondroitin, msm and abscorbic acid. This all works for my horse who has come back from a collateral ligament injury.
 
when you start thoroughly investigating what is in each supplement and how much they are and what actually works it is a bit of a minefield.
My human tablets actually contain glucosamine sulphate, which is not supposed to be as effective as glucosamine hydrochloride, if fact quite a lot of the supplements do.
To get the 10000mg recommended for a 500kg horse you need to continually feed the loading dose of quite a number of supplements on the market.
The vet I spoke to recommended that you are probably better to feed the constituents individaully so you can give the correct levels.
I think condroitin is not believed to be effective in horses so I don't feed that.
The labels are a bugger to understand as they all use different values.
For just glucoseamine the cheapest I could find was equine america glucoseamine, its about £17 for 900g (think i got it on offer though at the time 14.99 and as I got 4 tubs free postage)
I did weigh up the human tablets put because I would need to feed 10 it does mount up.
 
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