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Red Cell is a palatable yucca-flavoured vitamin-iron-mineral feed supplement for horses formulated to provide supplemental vitamins and minerals that may be lacking or are in insufficient quantities in a horse's regular feed.
Ideallly for competition horses, that require that extra vit/min that they will not receive purely through the feed, as its harder to feed a horse in hard work and get the necessary nutrients purely from the feed or individual dietry requirements.
As someone else said its great for horses that are lacking in iron, anaemic or ones that have liver problems, that require a bit of blood tonic.
We used to give it to the horses in training and the hunters. It never did them any harm, but as they were on high octane fuel anyway we never figured if it actually made a difference to them, energy wise, one way or another.
As they were all doing the job just fine we didn't care to experiment by taking them off it.
Im currently using Propell Plus have been since around the 20th December. Im using it because my horse had a nasty virus from September that took till december to go. The Propell has high levels of iron, to help support red blood cell production. It has a few different things in it that are to support the horses immune system including Echniacea.
Propell hasnt made any differance to my horses way of going at all i was expecting him to be a loony. We last tested Bloods in January after horse had been on Propell for 4 weeks & bloods came back all clear. I bought a big 5ltr bottle so he's on it until we finnish the bottle we're over half way now.
I'm using Propell Plus on my 6 yo ISH as he's a lazybones, & I have to say that it's really making a difference. Was struggling to hold him schooling yest, when usually it's a struggle to make him put one foot in front of the other...
ditto the above...i tried it on my rather lazy horse and it did bugger all...i was told (by a respected sjer) that you shouldn't use it permanently though as can cause liver problems if used consistently over a period of time....she also said that if you give horses dried nettles it has the same stuff in them....not that its quite as handy as a bottle of red cell mind!
I used to use it on a cob i owned who was very lazy. I used it because it was high iron and also highly energising. It really helped my boy, I did used to work him really hard and no feed i tried gave him enough energy (tried straight oats, barley, alfa alfa, competition mix, endurance mix etc in various combinations!), but once I started adding this he got a lot more power and went the best ever. I think it is great stuff. If I had another lazy/lethargic horse i would use it again.