Molliechaff Happy Hoof vs Dengie Alfa. Help Please :D

[charlieandpip]

My horse if having continually problems with her hooves, being crumbly. I've been looking at different feeds.
At the moment she is on Alfa and Lo-cal with supplements. The supplements i giver her are Biotin,Garlic and Glucosimine(for joints not hooves.) Also as suggested by my farrier we put Kevin Bacon hoof moisturiser on 3 times a week, and Keretex nail hole dicinfectant on twice a week, then Corno-cresin (sorry not sure on spelling) on once a week.

My farrrier has now suggested on adding another supplement to her feed, but found these all seem very expensive and reading reviews do not make much difference than just feeding biotin and putting things on hooves.

To save money i have looked at the mollichaff Happy Hooves this has biotin in, so i wouldn't have to feed as much biotin and it is also half the price of Alfa, has anybody swapped over and seen any effects, negative or positive.
Is mollichaff suitable for a 7yr old horse than can act a baby occasionally, but not too worried as it is only occasionally spurts of being hot, but i do have to watch her weight as she can put on very easily as well as drop very easily.

I will be very grateful for any help Thanks in advance.

 

[thatsmygirl]

Forget the mollichaff, unless u feed the recommended amounts u won't get anywhere and tbh without looking expect its really low in biotin anyway.
Biotin on its own isn't very effective it needs good levels of copper and zinc to back it up so a good balanced diet is needed, which the lo cal should be providing but I find these balancers are so low they aren't that great. I use equimins advance complete as a vitamin supplement which is very very high spec and put all balancers to shame and I would then add a hoof supplement such a equimins biotin 25 or hoof mender. A lot of biotin's supply 15mg for 500kg which is fine for maintaining a healthy hoof BUT will NOT improve a bad hoof you need to up the biotin which puts you into the next price points I'm afraid.
I would also stop putting all the gunk on the hooves, hooves breath, take in and with hold water as the hoof wants but cannot function when its pores are clogged full of crap, I use nothing on hoofs and never have, hoof health comes from within but u can only improve what your about to grow not whats there already but please lay of the gunk and good vit/min supplement with a decent hoof supplement way higher then 15mg and u will get there

 

[thatsmygirl]

Oh plus if u don't ride much end of summer into winter use it to full advantage and take the shoes off for a while, that will get the feet growing fast, if u get the nutrition right you will be well away. It's always good for them to let their feet rest from shoes at some point in the year and really kick starts growth.