This complementary feed for horses and ponies is designed to support and maintain healthy joints and comfort, as part of a balanced diet. It provides essential nutritional support for cartilage and helps maintain healthy joint fluid to lubricate and nourish the joint.
Horses’ joints are subjected to immense stress and strain, particularly during competition and training, leading to wear and tear. Joint problems, especially wear and tear of the cartilage, are one of the most common causes of reduced performance and ultimately lameness in performance horses. With horses living longer than ever, these joints can also have significant wear and tear due to a lifetime of use.
As the horse ages, or the daily impact of training and competition increases, the ability of the underlying bone and synovial fluid to provide vital nutrients and key chondroprotective compounds may not be enough to maintain joint health, resulting in a loss of performance. It is important that high-performance and older horses receive a dietary supply of these key nutrients to support joint health, to ensure the cartilage and joint fluid retain their elasticity and shock-absorbing properties to help maintain peak performance and comfort.
This product is easy to feed in a highly palatable cherry flavoured powder.
For a 500kg horse: for the initial 10-14 days, feed 35g per day. Thereafter, the amount may be gradually reduced, typically to 11.5g per day, to maintain the desired response. Maximum daily intake is 35g.
Features:
- Glucosamine: Stimulates the production of proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), helps maintain cartilage health, and supports the horse’s own anti-inflammatory processes.
- N-Acetyl D Glucosamine: Provides an additional source of glucosamine important in supporting the horse's own anti-inflammatory processes.
- Chondroitin Sulphate: Key compound in maintaining the structure, elasticity, and shock-absorbing properties of cartilage, partly through its water-retaining properties.
- Boswellia: Increased to 5000mg per 35g serve. Boswellic Acids, particularly AKBA, support the horse's own anti-inflammatory processes, helping to maintain performance levels. Also provides antioxidants and other important phytochemicals.
- MSM: Supports the horse's own anti-inflammatory processes and provides a bio-available source of sulphur to support the bonds in the structural matrix of the cartilage, tendons, and ligaments.
- Hyaluronic Acid: High molecular weight HA helps maintain the viscosity and elastic shock-absorbing properties of joint fluid, playing a vital role in joint health.
- Vitamin C: Plays a key role in the production of collagen, providing the structural framework for the important shock-absorbing properties of cartilage, as well as supporting connective tissue.
- Manganese, Copper and Zinc Glycinates: Bioavailable source of key trace minerals which play a key role in many enzyme systems involved in joint health.
- Rosemary: A natural antioxidant.
- Black Pepper: Provides a source of piperine, which is thought to help the absorption of these key ingredients.