Following on from the "over complicating feeding " thread.....I had a grass analysis done (in October) which showed calcium, cobalt, copper, magnesium, molybedenum, potassium, selenium and zinc are average, iodine, iron, manganese, and sodium were high and phosphorus and sulphur were low. advice from the report was to supplement copper, magnesium, phosphorous, selenium, sulphur and zinc. The reports are here https://imgur.com/g8Jhtu0https://imgur.com/Gyf2WO2 2 horses, one retired 16 y TB mare (ex racehorse) with ok horn quality but flat feet, collapsed heels and bars weedy frogs and a strange "fold" in the flare in back feet (bit hard to describe sorry). Been trimmed by a farrier for years, no improvement. and 13 y welsh x gelding who had front shoes taken off just over 12 months ago then was briefly reshod in the summer (to give myself option of studs) . Shoes came off in September and hopefully staying off. Not bad feet, concavity, good frogs, though had a little white line disease which is growing out, and heels could do with a little more growth. Also is a bit allergic to fly bites, dust, itchy, and possibly mild head shaking (vet's comment - rubs nose a lot ). Horse works happily on grass / surface, I normally hack out in hoof boots. I had previously had both horses on pure grass pellets (soaked), timothy chaff and equimins advance and salt. I changed to a Barefoot trimmer in November, so not had much time for hoof changes to become apparent. I showed the forage analysis results to the trimmer who recommended CalmHealthyHorse products https://www.calmhealthyhorses.co.uk/ They recommended that the gelding would benefit from Premium - https://i.imgur.com/MIqVo3T.png plus Alleviate C - https://i.imgur.com/JWZSHHe.png plus Grazeezy - https://i.imgur.com/o0lokTm.png which they said would help his allergies and head shaking. I was a bit sceptical that added minerals would help allergies / head shaking but decided to give it a trial. (Mare is still on equimins) The "Over-complicated feeding" thread has made me a bit concerned in case I am over feeding anything - I have tried to work out the amounts feeding the recommended amount for a 400 kg horse to my welsh x (he is actually 480 kg) which is 60 g of premium + 40 g alleviate c + 20 g grazeezy and dont THINK I am over feeding (compared to recommended daily amounts given in Merk (though not found RDAs for some of the minerals) So I guess I have 2 questions - 1) Can anyone confirm I am not over feeding minerals / vitamins using the above supplements (I can email a spreadsheet if anyone was kind enough to take a look!) 2) For the above forage analysis what would you recommend as being the best supplement (if I didn't carry on with the calm healthy horses)? I should say that at present the mare is mainly on hay and the gelding is on haylage (its actually very dry and more like hay but the vet advised it for his dust allergy) plus some grass (we haven't got much). I don't have a hay analysis. Thanks if you got this far. I'll stick up some hoof pics in a bit on this thread
01-24-2018, 10:02 PM
Barefoot advice - following on from "overcomplicated feeding"
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