Turmeric

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Is this the new wonder herb/spice?

I joined the FB group after raising the possibility of medicating my girls hocks and for a £10 ive decided to try the natural route first.

Anyone else on here using it? How quickly did you notice a difference?

All opinions and info welcome!
 
We started using it last autumn, just to ease general stiffness rather than for anything specific and we started to see a difference almost immediately, our mare has a definite spring to her step now that wasn't there before, she feels younger to ride if that makes sense and is wanting to do more than she used to. She was previously just on boswellia which wasn't quite doing the trick so at the moment we're using a bit of both, but when that runs out I think we'll see how she is on just the turmeric as that's when we saw the biggest change in her.

Also, someone we know has been using just turmeric on an oldie who was getting to look and act like an old lady and since she's been on it she's bogged off with her rider for the first time in about ten years :)
 
Ive just joined this facebook page too. How much do you feed and do you feed it alongside something else as on the group it said about makeing it in to a paste?
 
All of mine are now on it - big WB with sacro illiac dysfunction and 4 yr old with ringbone - veteran just for general joint/age related stiffness and 3 yr old as he shares paddock with WB so they swop feeds.

My veteran mare is really lively since she has been on it and I have noticed the WB's trot being noticably more elevated. I can't speak for the filly with ringbone - she will be re xrayed in the spring/early summer.

I feed it with a mug of micronised linseed and 9 twists of black pepper - I want to maximise their absorbtion of it. The files on the fb user group explain about this and the effects of turmeric. I have started taking it myself (tablet form) as I suffer with shoulder pain.
 
The vets on that page state that it isn't absorbed into the horse's system if not combined with the pepper.

But you don't have to make a paste - just add the turmeric, oil & pepper to a feed
(one woman tho used coconut oil to make paste with the T&P then made little blocks, refrigerated them and they were fed as little treats :)
 
paulineh said:
I think you will find that you need the black pepper to get the Turmeric to be digested into the system
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Well, before black pepper was talked about being added people had been successfully feeding turmeric for years with great results, I'm not saying the black pepper doesn't help, but lots of people feed without it. I doubt any actual studies have been done on how horses digest it.
 
Im thinking of giving this a go to help my boys joints as he has been on restricted turnout for several months and still recovering from a fractured knee. Im willing to give anything a try at the moment, i think i'll wait until he is off his latest load of bute, give it a go and see what happens.
Will it matter if it is mixed in damp feeds? He is on micronised lineseed anyway and i dont mind adding pepper as i guess its not going to add time in the grand sheme of things but i would rather not have to faff loads with it.
 
I gave it to mine on its own and made no difference. Also I swear substibute is just turmeric as I tried that too and looks/smells just like it but with a bigger price tag! Its different for all horses though, my boy is on codlivine now for joints and stiffness which is the only things that worked after trying everything else, including bute which had little effect.
 
i have my older mare (bit stiff at the bacvk with touch of arthritis) and she's on superflex, which i think is def working (much easier to pick hooves etc). I tried her on a boswelia mix (with tumeric) and she'd take ages to it if at all (and with a greedy younger mare about she hasnt got that luxury). How do you make it palatable and how much are you feeding?
 
I feed a heaped 20ml spoon once a day to 3 of mine and twice daily to my filly with the ringbone. The only one of mine that won't eat it is my veteran companion pony - he left the whole feed so he doesnt get it now.
 
Can I ask where you buy from - presumably in bulk, and not in little Sainsbury's spice jars??! Am thinking it may help my older boy.
 
Yes I wanted my mare to have this, so got all the things together olive oil, black pepper etc & put a tiny bit in her feed and of course she wouldnt eat her feed, it was well mixed into wet sugar beet, even my younger horse went over and had a try but he wouldnt touch it either, how do you make it palatable ?. I bought 2 bags of 150g for £1.79 in their penny sale from holland & barrett for those of you just starting out.
 
Never heard you should feed it with black pepper but it seems to be working for us. We give a tablespoon split across breakfast and tea & she does have sunflower oil too but that's a coincidence rather than a plan.
 
I feed the turmeric with pepper and extra virgin olive oil to my ageing neddy who also has kissing spines, have noticed within a month of feeding the paste his movement in his schooling has improved vastly and he's much more forward going.
 
My boy started off on 2 tsp a day across two feeds and is now on 6 tsp split across two feeds. Fed with coconut oil and pepper.

Amazing difference in the six weeks and is now off superflex but with greatly improved movement and loads more energy . Not so sure that's a good thing !
 
I'm going to try my welsh mare on it who's getting all sorts of niggles now! Will be 15 in May... Hoping it will improve her sweet itch too.
Also putting my youngster on it and she quite scurfy skin so hope it will help her x
 
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