propell

[competitiondiva]

Ok help guys. I've tried emailing equine america, but had no response. I have a 4 year old warmblood who since putting him on oats and propell has become a different horse almost, looks amazing, and rides perfect. He was on seaweed before for his vits and mins etc, but didn't get the same effect. My question is will I be doing him harm by feeding propell long term, am wary as it's high iron content?? I'm about to finish my first bottle of it, and looking whether to get another.

 

[CPayne]

I have been feeding it for 10-12 years now, not at the racehorse doses I seem to recall are on the bottle. Used it as have never fed mixes at levels recommended on the sacks as they have always been far too high. This was recommended as a broad spectrum vitamin and mineral supplement to balance things. Horses still going strong and both now in their 20s. Some thing just to keep an eye on is the selenium as I seem to recall that there was a decent amount in the competition mixes that I used, back in the day, and obviously don't want to overdo that. Cant recall the mineral profile of oats but worth checking that Propell is complimenting/balancing things. Sounds like he is going really well though so that's great.

 

[miss_c]

Genie has been on it for over 2 years since being ill, initially she was on the full dose, now she's just on the lowest maintenance dose with a bit more over the 'risky' summer months.

 

[MrsNorris]

Seaweed has such minute amounts of vits and minerals that you would need to feed tons of it to get the amounts needed, and then you would be overdosing massively on iodine and probably iron too, so its really not a good supplement for horses.
As for propel, does it have correspondingly high and balanced levels of copper and zinc? This is crucial as high iron can cause deficiencies in these minerals.

Personally, I wouldn't feed it as most places in the UK already have high levels of iron in the grazing/forage and I would imagine deficiency is pretty rare here, low copper and zinc levels seem to be pretty common though.
I would be inclined to stop it and see if its just the oats making the difference (and save some pennies too!), you can always start it again if the horse goes backwards.