Supplements

Do you think we have all gone supplement mad? I was in the feed merchants today, and virtualy every customer was buying a pot or bottle of something.

My own horses get... Bluechip and a bit of speedybeet! One gets 3 kinds of Global Herbs in addition, plus mint and salt to make him eat it.

What do yours get?
 
If they are on a restricted diet vtamins if not, nothing
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Mine only get a joint sup, and settlelex as required - she's prone to upset tummies.

I think I have the most high maintanence 'oss ever.
 
I don't really feed anything as my horse is too fussy to eat it, but I do like pink powder. I'm trying to find a joint supplement she will eat, have thought about a foot one too, and a respiratory one (she had a cough coming out of winter), and a calmer as she used to be really hyper....

agree we've gone supplement mad. every one i see, i think 'ooh i could use that!'
 
I dabbled with veggie oil once or twice but she really didn't seem to appreciate it. Does Marmite count as a supplement? If so, then she virtually takes that via IV drip. As for anything else, I have started pondering stuff for oldies for winter but I haven't actually lifted a finger to do anything about it yet.
 
My boy gets some seaweed to strengthen his hooves, some magox because he's a very good doer with a cresty neck and I'm paranoid about lami, hilton herbs metabolyte gold - an excellent herbal supplement for weight loss and some codlivermins which he hates so I'm going to switch back to naf or something similar!

When i think about it he probably gets more supplement than actual hard feed and is only getting a feed to give him the supplements

There is a lot of pressure to supplement - look at all the advertising in horse magazines - you're often made to feel odd for not giving your horse some kind of supplement!
 
I only give supplements as my boy needs them

Synequin - arthrits
Danilon - arthritis
Lami-lite -for bad hoof condition and respiratory, vits and probitoics
Ragaid - for the obvious
Skratch (during summer only) - as he is a big itchy lump.

Generally, I think less is more and I agree with you.

When I first started to ride, it was cubes, straights or mix, sugarbeet and that was it! Not even haylage. How things change, not that I am complaining.
 
seaweed for vits mins salt etc mint coz he loves it garlic to help with the flys nettle to help with mopping up the free radicals coz he his prone to lammi and vi-sorbin for his vitiman b;s to help with keeping hih liver good.if he had the recomented diet i would not give any supplem,ents!
 
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