Please comment on supplements: do they make sense?
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My horse is free leased and while I updated the case history I don't have details on the supplements/feed, i.e. amounts. The lessor doesn't analyze the hay and instead has been supplementing free-range round bale hay and double rinsed beet pulp (Midwest Agri, no molassas): Soaked alfalfa pellets (Blue Seal) spirolina jherb Mad Barn Amino Trace + (ration balancer) https://madbarn.com/product/aminotrace/ Magnechrome https://madbarn.com/feeds/magnechrome-mad-barn/ Optimum (gastric support) https://blog.biostarus.com/gastric-support-in-a-multivitamin-mineral-optimum-gi/ Pentosan (IM for joint support) The horse has been much more active being free-leased than with being under my care. I couldn't ride him for a couple of years because he would buck and crow hop with me. Now he has tweens WTC him in lessons on the flat and with low-jumps. He looks good. (BTW I had done the protocol years ago of administering ulcer medicine to see if it made any difference in the bucking and crow-hopping: it didn't. Inky did seem to have back issues back then). In September he developed a hoof abscess, which has since healed. With the information provided, is it possible to comment on whether the lessor's supplementation seem reasonable? . She has been managing the horse for two years, and has been adding supplements until she reached the current combination. -- Karin & Inky Forest, VA IR/Cushing's July 27, 2015 https://ecir.groups.io/g/ |
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