Whether you care for a pasture pet or a performance horse, Vitamin E is an essential nutrient in your horses diet. The key word here is “essential”, meaning it is required for the body to work properly.
Between clever marketing and promises, well intentioned horse owners spend hundreds in supplements they hope will help their horse. Then you look at the ingredients of this miracle powder and see: Proprietary Blend, a guaranteed analysis in ppm’s and percentages you can’t decipher, or worse yet…no guaranteed analysis at all. What’s a horse owner to do??
Seeing a jug of vegetable oil in a feed room is pretty common. Reasons may be for a shinny coat, weight gain or extra energy. Here are some important highlights about feeding your horse oil.
When horse owners think about joint supplements, one popular ingredient they look for is HA (Hyaluronic Acid). Unfortunately, finding the best product for your horse is not as cut and dry as seeing Hyaluronic Acid listed in the ingredients.
Trace minerals; the amount a horse needs to consume is so minimal it’s hard to imagine they have any effect over such a large animal. Yet deficiencies in two trace minerals; copper and zinc can be very noticeable.
