Vitamin E help

[ycbm]

Would someone clever be able to tell me how much this works out - I feed Blue Chip Lami light balancer and it has
Vitamin E/3a700 270 mg/kg
in it.
Horse has 500 grams a day of Lami Light.
Someone who knows him and saw him suggested Vitamin E for him a couple of months ago. How does the calculation for Lami Light work out against what a horse weighing around 520 lbs would need?
He is on chaff, hay and grass and the balancer.

I am useless at science and don't understand figures at all.

Thanks.

He's getting 135mg of vitamin E, which is probably synthetic so only counts as 67.5mg. There are 150iu in 100mg. So he's getting about 100iu, which is practically not worth even considering.

If someone has suggested he needs supplementing at this time of year is want to try him on 2000iu and hope to reduce it in summer and possibly keep it lower next winter. Did you mean 520lbs? He's a pony?

 

[ycbm]

My "issue" with the Pharmahorse Vit E was that it is synthetic.

I've since found a natural Vit E powder here, but it isn't exactly cheap and does contain MSM, which I am/horse is fine with.

Edit: Both Pharmahorse and the one I now use contain MSM, some may prefer not to feed MSM for whatever reason(s) I suppose. I've also seen Vitamin E oil combined with linseed oil (HorseFlex).

I wouldn't worry about the MSM, studies have shown that 20g a day is very beneficial for repair of normal day to day wear and tear, and it's competition legal last time I looked. Mine are on it permanently, I bought a 25kg box.

 

[CanteringCarrot]

I wouldn't worry about the MSM, studies have shown that 20g a day is very beneficial for repair of normal day to day wear and tear, and it's competition legal last time I looked. Mine are on it permanently, I bought a 25kg box.

Oh yeah, I'm fine with it and feed it anyway. I've heard of some horses going a bit loopy on MSM but I don't know at what dosage and haven't experienced it myself.

 

[quizzie]

I will gladly buy it plus postage - you can't get it at the moment, stocks have run out. I have some on order but getting worried now that it isnt going to come on time.

Don't panic!...I just spoke to Saracen this morning, and they had a container arrive Friday with some Nano E on board, so now in stock with them!

 

[humblepie]

He's getting 135mg of vitamin E, which is probably synthetic so only counts as 67.5mg. There are 150iu in 100mg. So he's getting about 100iu, which is practically not worth even considering.

If someone has suggested he needs supplementing at this time of year is want to try him on 2000iu and hope to reduce it in summer and possibly keep it lower next winter. Did you mean 520lbs? He's a pony?

Thank you for that. Oh dear, no getting my kilos and pounds mixed up! He is a 16.1 thoroughbred. Told you I am not good at figures! Thank you.

 

[ycbm]

OK ? then I'd start him on 4000iu and hope to reduce it later.

 

[Flowerofthefen]

Just started my boy on vit e. He didn't like it at first but is eating fine now. I'm having to make his breakfast up the night before so the vit e is added then. Does anyone know if it depletes with water over night?

 

[Tiddlypom]

Standing overnight in a premixed wet feed?

I wouldn't risk it. Best added just before feeding.

 

[ycbm]

Standing overnight in a premixed wet feed?

I wouldn't risk it. Best added just before feeding.

I do it, works fine. It's an oil, I don't think it degrades. This will give people the heeby geebies but I mix it 24 hours in advance.

 

[Tiddlypom]

I would never stand a wet premixed feed for hours, it's asking for trouble.

How hard is it to add water and mix it up just before feeding?

 

[ycbm]

I've been asking for trouble for 40 years and it hasn't arrived yet. Sugar beet used to be unsafe with less than 12 hours soaking and the Dengie grass nuts I use now are so hard they won't soak in cold water in under several hours. So with what I feed, its not hard, it's impossible.
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[Cragrat]

All my feeds are soaked 12ish hours before they are fed. Sugarbeet pellets, grass nuts and alfalfa pellets, all measured out dry into each bucket and then water added and left to soak until the next feed. Been doing it this way for years, summer and winter. I do add the minerals etc at the time of feeding, but i think high heat/uv rays degrades minerals more than water.

 

[Flowerofthefen]

I would never stand a wet premixed feed for hours, it's asking for trouble.

How hard is it to add water and mix it up just before feeding?

My YO feeds in the morning if she is there before me. I will just add it in evening feed.

 

[bouncing_ball]

I've been asking for trouble for 40 years and it hasn't arrived yet. Sugar beet used to be unsafe with less than 12 hours soaking and the Dengie grass nuts I use now are so hard they won't soak in cold water in under several hours. So with what I feed, its not hard, it's impossible.
.

Surely you can put supplements in Tupperware pot and add to soaked feed just before feeding.

 

[ycbm]

Surely you can put supplements in Tupperware pot and add to soaked feed just before feeding.

Why would I when they work fine the way I'm doing it?
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