What supplements do you feed your horse?

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I have been working at a livery yard and its so interesting seeing all the supplements that so many different people used.
So I am just interested in what supplements you feed your horses and why?

I feed mine a garlic and mint mix, as its meant to help with flies and my boy is a fussy eater so the mint will encourage him to eat.

I am also thinking of feeding them an electrolyte as they tend to lick soil a lot, mainly in winter, when they sweat more.
 
Too many!!

At the moment we seem to have found a happy medium on the following
Oestress NAF
Superflex NAF
Magic NAF
Garlic

We finally seem to have found a level, just started the oestress a few weeks ago, so finger crossed it stays working :)
 
Im quite the believer in if they dont need it dont give them it. But I do feed garlic and tbh - its only cause i love the smell :D

Thought about mint but it would only be cause i felt like it shes not a fussy eater

toyed with a calmer but decided not to as shes not THAT bad.....:D
 
It's a minefied.... I've just started mine on devils claw for joints. Can't do oils really.

Last year, he was really poorly. Vet and EP found it was because his liver was bad because I had over-supplemented!!! How stupid was I??? I'd gone a bit overboard so do be careful. The majority of horses' system requires so little, you can easily overdo it.
 
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Last year, he was really poorly. Vet and EP found it was because his liver was bad because I had over-supplemented!!! How stupid was I??? I'd gone a bit overboard so do be careful. The majority of horses' system requires so little, you can easily overdo it.
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Ooooh Tallyho how many supplements was over-supplementing? My mare is on agnus castus (sp) as she is very mareish and magnesium because she is a spooky devil. Today I have just added a supplement for her joints because she has been looking a bit stiff but now I'm worrying that I might have overloaded her!!
 
I was adding in Formula 4 Feet, soya oil, glocusamine + rosehips, fastfibre, biotin, magnesium... and whatever else was in happyhoof!

Way too much. I wondered why he puffed up in the stable all the time. It came to a stage where I tride not to stable him as he became swollen in legs, neck and face. This was over a whole year or more.

He was lame by the end, mudfever, infections mainly hoof related and even got lami again!!!

Took him off everything and was fine in two weeks but only after a strict detox diet. Soaked hay, stabled plus trinity stuff.
 
Ronnie cob gets Equivite in his feed - just a vit and min supplement and garlic.

I was worried that because he's such a chunky chap and doesn't get a lot he would be missing out on all the good bits he needed. The Equivite has definitely made his coat shine so i'm hoping it's doing something good for him inside! I've always been told garlic, as well as keeping the flies away, is also a natural antibiotic so that goes in for good measure along with a handful of hifi lite to get him to eat it! :D
 
mine's on electrolytes for his dodgy urinary system and codlivine supple joint oil for his joints (lovely shiny coat a welcome side-effect!)
 
All round joint supplement -at the moment Maxaflex but it can change.
Brewers Yeast
Then lysine, selenium, copper, magnesium and zinc but that's balanced to the pasture he's on.

And he gets a teaspoon of salt after hard work if he's sweated.
 
Lo-cal balancer
Magnesium

In the summer he gets apple cider vinegar (its meant to make their blood taste horrid to horse flies) and in the winter he gets veg oil.

I'd rather not feed anything but I took him off the balancer and he lost muscle tone and the magnesium is to balance our grazing which is really rich.

I hope I'm not over supplementing! Cr@p I've just remembered he has a mineral lick in his field as well!
 
My lot get garlic, bit after reading a thread on vets about problems caused by garlic I think this will be the last garlic I buy. I feed salt at this time of year as they have all been sweating so much.

Pony has the naf respirator liquid - but she just has that every other day now
 
garlic - in summer for flies (dont think it works though)

rosehips - because theyre free from a neighbours garden, my mares shoeless so it helps

biotin - again because she shoeless but will be taking her off it when i run out because her feed has high biotin count

flaxseed oil - for her energy instead of cereals, only been on it 3 weeks and havent noticed a difference in her coat or energy yet...
 
just started feeding top-spec low cal balancer - nothing else as it says u can overdose on vits etc if do. Seems to be doing its job - he didnt run out of fuel half way round our fast ride yesterday ! retired girl just has mineral and salt licks in field
 
Ive always found it fascinating what everyone uses.
Have never given roo one, until about 3 weeks back, I started her on glucosamine+msm because she had surgery on her tendon sheaths in december so I worry about her legs now
 
I,m going to be the odd one out and say none!

In winter they sometimes get pink powdwer if i remember to buy it but at the moment they just get grass. I,m about to shove a mineral lick out in the field for them but that is all. I dont even give mine hard feed most of the year never mind supplements!
 
You're not the odd one out, I don't give any either! Have taken advice from Spillers as I was wondering if he should be getting something extra but was told with the feed he is on he doesn't need anything else. He does have a salt lick in his stable but he rarely touches it!!
 
In winter I clip, but also add salt (raw salt if you can get it)
He used to get no supplements but I moved yards last winter, and I saw him licking soil, and he started being a spookehead, so I fed him a magnesium based calmer which has a number of vitamins and minerals and herbs and yeast. This in addition to his winter feed of one kilo of Allen and Page food which gives him his daily requirements.
This summer he is on my supplement mix to ensure healthy hoof growth, in order of weight:
Cooked linseed meal [oils]
Seaweed meal [vits and mins]
Magnesium based calmer [Ca, Herbs, Yeast etc]
Limestone flour [strong bones]
Biotin [the hoof vitamin]
Tiny Teaspoon of of Flexamine HA [free sample]
This is fed with 300 gm of Dengie molasses free chaff which has mint and fenugreek and a bit of alfalfa.
When out at grass and not in work he gets nothing.
 
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J just gets low-cal balancer and hi-fi lite with soaked hay, B used to have equilibrium balancer, tiger oats and Alfa-A lite and again soaked hay. I did give B a joint supplement as he was eventing and he got electrolytes after competing. They both had/have vegetable oil in their feeds and salt licks in their stables but that is it.
 
Cal Mag, linseed oil, brewers yeast and seaweed, with unmolassed sugar beet. I have to add a handful of nuts just to make it more palatable though! Oldie gets apple cider vinegar and devils claw too as she is arthritic.
 
My 32 year old, who has never given me a vet bill gets nothing, D&H 16+, magnets for his arthritic hock but he still works.

Youngstock get D&H Surelimb

Stallion gets Equine America Magnesium

Sweet itch get marmite

Lamintic gets Forumal Feet in acute stage
 
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