Ethical Equine Nutritional Advice and HoofStrong Equine Supplements

04/07/2025

Herbs, herbs, and algae ? What’s the real benefit for EMS horses ?
Here are some of the lesser known herbal supports for EMS or IR horses… and one trick herb, which is still used but has been discredited as helping horses. Always look at the current research 🙂 (Jiaogulan isn’t here as it shouldn’t be used during any laminitic episodes… only once recovery is firmly established)

04/07/2025

What’s your score? It’s better to be safe than sorry :-)

04/07/2025

I have a lot of owners who are coming to us, needing information on Equine Metabolic Syndrome, or who have horses who may be insulin resistant. Hopefully these two posts will be helpful.
Where is your horse?
Feeding support to follow 😉

23/04/2025

Why do we advocate for the amino acid methionine at 10 g a day? To support hoof and whole horse health 🙂 here’s a little snippet of information
Feel free to share 🙂

23/04/2025

We have had a number of owners contact us with hardening fat pads. Which is significantly linked to laminitis risk due to insulin resistance and the trigger of equine metabolic syndrome.

As the grass starts to grow ……….. just a gentle reminder to aim for minimal and slow weight gain over summer and don’t forget “moderate” to “moderately fleshy” is the aim for weight management across summer !

Even walking in hand for 20 minuets a day can help manage weight :-)

If your horses has fat pads and a crest of any size then daily checks are a must and any hardening or increasing in size is a cause to look at feed intake and a vet check to ensure there are no underlying concerns. Fat pads and increases year on year should be treated with caution and avoided at all costs. Sugar and starch must be limited and grass intake should be also managed.
Slow steady trickle feeding is the aim.

Just because a horse was fat last summer and didn’t suffer from a severe laminitis episode, that doesn’t mean this wont be the year it happens. Think of it as year on year - the straw that breaks the camels back.

16/03/2025

Homeward bound!
lots of new info and lots of consolidation, so you can be assured that you’re trusted hoofcare and nutritional professionals follow the science ! To support you and your horses with the most up to date gold standard information !

No twisting science for sales !
Only ethical equine nutrition 🤩

11/03/2025

Utrecht bound ☺️
Looking forward to the EEHNC
Keep tuned for updates ☺️

06/03/2025

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1084781060330936&id=100063971553190

Countdown to one of the best nutrition congresses in Europe !!

And your trusted Hoofcare Professionals and Equine Nutritionist will be there so that you can benefit from new science !
Further details of the content and application to your horses wellbeing will follow :-)

If you are going say please say Hi :-)

16/01/2025

Heads up for itchy horse owners ….

So the time of year has come again when we all look forward to the spring... And you might want to think of starting your horse on S-Itch if you have a sweet itch horse, as we do..
Before S-Itch we had to stock up on creams, shampoo, rugs and our boy would go through them all at a rapid rate, shredding rugs, and using creams that seemed to only work for a few hours.
These last 2 summers on HoofStrong's sweet itch, he has been in one fly rug, no creams needed, lives out 24/7 non irritated and looks like any other horse, mane and tail intact!
Worth a try :-) if you have an itchy horse, message us to find out more, this is a research based product !

12/01/2025

A lovely little piece of feedback to an owner passed on to us “farrier was astonished at the speed of hoof growth, and that’s down to the supplements”.

Thank you Alison and Sybren
Love the updates 🥰😀

Feel free to message pictures and updates we love to hear about your horses progress

16/12/2024

It’s that time of year !!! Hope you have all been good and your wishes come true 🎄🤩

11/11/2024

Unfortunately we have had a few horses come to us recovering from grass related colic from changing over to winter fields.
Just to be clear
There is nothing you can feed, no supplement, to stop grass related colic if a horse rapidly eats large quantities of highly fermentable lush grass. Horses can eat very quickly if they like what they are eating!
Ponies even faster!

The situation is more risky if the grass is wet, because horses don’t chew wet forage as well as they do dry, so the swallowed particle sizes can be larger and can also risk impaction.

Management is key..
all field changes should take place gradually over a period of 2 weeks (winter and summer time)
If you know your horse will eat a lot of long grass rapidly then use a muzzle, strip grazing can still be risky.
Feed your horse before you let them out, a full stomach takes 2 hours to empty and horses naturally will not gorge if their stomachs are already full.

Studied Wild horses are considered to rarely suffer from colic, they don’t change grazing areas rapidly, usually moving to newer pasture over a few months ! The equine gut is very fragile so please take care 🥰