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Tag Archives: Vitamin E
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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Neuromuscular Support Nutrients
Your horse’s health, happiness and performance depend on normal functioning of the nervous system and muscles. All nutrients have a role to play but some are particularly important. Vitamin E is an antioxidant which becomes incorporated directly into the membranes … Continue reading
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Tagged Acetyl L-Carnitine, Amino acid, brain, horses, leucine, Lysine, muscle, Muscle EQ, nerve, nervous system, Protein, Selenium, stress, Supplements, uckele, Vitamin E
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Anemia in Horses
Let’s get one thing out of the way right up front. Insufficient iron is not the cause of your horse’s anemia, and feeding more iron is not going to fix it. In fact, it might make things worse. Even if … Continue reading
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Tagged anemia of chronic disease, B-Vitamins, blood loss, Copper, Echinacea, EIA, iron deficiency, Lyme, performance, Piroplasmosis, Vitamin E, Zinc
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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
Nervous System Support
A horse embodies grace, power, balance and movement. Nothing is more potentially devastating than nervous system dysfunction involving brain, spinal cord or nerves. I’m often asked about ways to nutritionally support the nervous system. A horse embodies grace, power, balance … Continue reading
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Tagged Acetyl L-Carnitine, alpha lipoic acid, bioflavonoids, brain, C, diet, Ginkgo, herbals, N-acetyl-cysteine, nerves, nervous system, Resveratrol, Turmeric, Vitamin E
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Nutrition for the Lactating Mare
There is a reason the horse evolved to foal in the Spring. The rich, tender, high moisture young vegetation provides the energy and protein dense nutrition the mare needs to make sufficient milk. In peak lactation the mare needs 1.8X … Continue reading
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Tagged Amino Fac, Base Mix P55, calories, CocoOmega, fatty acids, Foal, lactation, Lysine, Milk and Grow, minerals, Protein, salt, Tri-Amino, Vitamin E
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Vitamin E and Selenium Are Powerful Protectors
Vitamin E and selenium are nutrients familiar to most horsepeople. They are among the most common deficiencies in unsupplemented animals – and also the only two where deficiency diseases are still routinely seen. Suboptimal levels also impact health and performance … Continue reading
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Tagged antioxidant, deficiency, immunity, muscle, nervous system, Selenium, thyroid, Vitamin E
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The Magic of Colostrum
Foaling season is upon us and everyone realizes the lifesaving importance of mare’s colostrum in transferring disease-protecting antibodies to the new foal but colostrum does much more than this. For For example, colostrum contains a hexasaccharide that inhibits gram negative … Continue reading
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Tagged antibodies GALT, arabinogalactan, B-Vitamins, colostrum, foals, FOS, horses, immunity, lactoferrin, Mannanoligosaccharide, probiotics, Vitamin E, whey
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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
