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Tag Archives: vitamin C
Topping Off Hay Diets
Hay is just dried grass and grass is the horse’s natural food so it shouldn’t need any supplementation – right? Wrong. Variety is a major difference between the diet of feral horses and that of domesticated horses fed hay. The … Continue reading
Posted in Equine Nutrition
Tagged fatty acids, feral, Flax, forage, Hay, horse, minerals, Omega-3, salt, sodium, vitamin A, vitamin C, Vitamin E
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Vitamin Concerns in the Winter
Your horse’s vitamin needs don’t really change in the winter – but the supply available from the diet does. This is because there is a big difference between fresh grass versus hay and also because hay vitamin levels decrease with … Continue reading
Tendon and Ligament Care
Tendons and ligaments are specialized forms of connective tissue. Tendons connect muscle to bone. Ligaments are anchored only to bone at each end. Both are composed of interwoven strands of type I collagen protein in a structure much like a … Continue reading
Struggling Lungs
ProAir, Vitamin C, Lung EQ, Spirulina Most of your horse’s body is heavily oriented to minimizing contact with the rest of the world but the lungs rely on it to function. This makes their job of extracting oxygen and releasing … Continue reading
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Tagged antioxidants, bedding, bioflavonoids, dust, Grapeseed, Hay, irritants, Jiaogulan, lungs, MSM, Spirulina, vitamin C, weather
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Vitamin C – Friend or Foe
Vitamin C [ascorbate/ascorbic acid] is a water soluble vitamin which functions as an important antioxidant and is needed for the synthesis of L-carnitine, catecholamines like epinephrine and dopamine, as well as collagen, the major protein in all connective tissues, including … Continue reading
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Tagged antioxidant, ascorbate, Bio Quench, collagen, dopamine, exercise, Hay, lung, Lung EQ, pasture, supplement, synthesis, vitamin C
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How Joint Supplements Work
The first joint supplement for horses came out in the 1980s and was a chondroitin sulfate only product, followed by products containing Perna (green-lipped mussel). In the early 1990s, a patent was granted for the first equine combination joint supplement … Continue reading
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Tagged bone, boron, Boswellia, chondroitin, Devil's Claw, glucosamine, homeostasis, horses, hyaluronic acid, joint, silica, vitamin C, Yucca
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Supplementing Old Hay
It’s the time of year when even last year’s hay isn’t so new anymore and hay is getting hard to find, leading many people to settle for hay that is actually 2 years old. Properly cured hay stores well in … Continue reading
Vitamin C for Horses
Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) comes in and out of supplement headlines. As happens with many nutrients, exaggerated claims end up being made and when these eventually prove to be unwarranted the pendulum swings too far in the other direction but … Continue reading
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Tagged antioxidants, blood vessels, connective tissue, deficiency, grass, immunity, iron, Supplements, synthesis, vitamin C, winter
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