Vitamin C for Horses?

Did you know Vitamin C is not an essential nutrient in your horse’s diet?

Unlike we humans, who will get scurvy and die if we don’t eat vitamin C, horses make their own vitamin C in their liver!

Clever right!!

There are some situations, like when a horse is very ill, really stressed or has liver damage where supplementing with vitamin C may be useful.

Just be mindful that when you want to stop supplementing you should remove the vitamin C from the diet gradually so the horse has a chance to ramp its own production up again.

 

 

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