What are you ACTUALLY feeding?

Is your horse getting everything he needs to thrive?

Many of the best horse owners could be missing hidden dietary deficiencies in their horses, simply because they aren’t calculating to see if their horse’s diets are balanced or not.

Looking at the outside of our horses, most horse owners are pretty good at knowing how much feed our horses need. We can see weight change which gives us a visual clue that the horse is not being fed enough (resulting in weight loss), or too much (resulting in weight gain).

What we can’t see are the vitamin and mineral deficiencies. And the problem is, these hidden deficiencies often won’t show up as something we can see until they result in disaster – hooves falling apart, joints breaking down, an immune system so compromised that it can’t mount an effective immune response to a simple disease challenge.

Here is a classic example of a diet where the horse’s owner has done a truly great job in putting together a forage-based diet with just enough of a single feed to maintain excellent condition. But the small amount of feed is not enough to meet the horse’s basic vitamin and mineral requirements and can result in a dietary deficiency that could cause long term problems for this horse.

Check the video out as we walk you through Lacey’s diet, which perfectly demonstrates what is happening in so many horse’s diets.

The good news is, with just a little bit of time spent in FeedXL and the addition of a single supplement, Lacey’s diet can be fully balanced to keep her healthy and happy in the long term!

 

 

 

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