Ethical Equine Nutritional Advice and HoofStrong Equine Supplements

19/08/2024

Another stunning improvement
Dapples anyone?
Little bit of info…

The science snippet

Dapples are genetically controlled but are only fully expressed when the diet is working well (and there’s no copper deficiency) 😉

13/08/2024

We love updates, and thought you might like to see this lovely transformation - no shampoo, no sprays, HoofStrong Supplement working well 🙂 thank you Claire 🥰

17/07/2024

Definitely something to be said for this
Always studying 🥰

05/07/2024

https://www.facebook.com/share/Ym3dk6DR3pz9HhgJ/?mibextid=WC7FNe

Please complete if your horse is eligible click on the link below

https://murdochuni.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2u81cwaM6XxK6yO

19/06/2024

https://www.facebook.com/100063971553190/posts/896680402474337/?

Pssssstttttt

Happy Wednesday!
Just a little update to let you all know although we have been quiet we have been busy, working on your behalf with the new HoofTransformation website, if you haven’t seen it recently, grab a coffee and have a look, we will have Your HoofStrong dedicated website coming soon, with nutritional support, helpful hoof information as well as a place to showcase your horses and to buy your HoofStrong Favourites !

15/05/2024

https://fb.watch/s4igi5EK56/?

27/04/2024

https://drkhorsesense.wordpress.com/2024/04/25/mim-is-not-a-new-muscle-disease/

I have been receiving an increasing number of questions regarding how to treat a horse with MIM. What is MIM? MIM is being proposed as a new term for horses with PSSM2 MIM stands for muscle integri…

27/03/2024

Good news for net users and teeth 🙂

24/03/2024

This Easter instead of sugary or molasses based treats

Why not treat your horse to a laminitis friendly feed topper? Pure Egyptian Peppermint or Chamomile Flowers on request

Or you can use our Herbal Treat blend as a laminitis safe reward 🥰

22/03/2024

Has your horse lost a lot of weight?
Are you on a hay only diet?

Two things to safeguard against.

1. Coat change from inadequate mineral supplementation. (In dark coated horses)

From darker (healthy) to red tinged (unhealthy) .

This isn’t good.

Whenever you see this change think is the diet balanced?.
Think of copper reserves. Are they adequate or lacking ?
(Horses running low will start to have a red tinged coat, then over the following year or 2 the hoof wall integrity will suffer) at the same time check for vitamin E, A (and D if rugged a lot). As if copper is low so will other essential vitamins minerals and likely amino acids.

2. Horse has lost a lot of weight in a short time. (Dangerous) but still. Then the assumption that this weight loss protects horses from laminitis.

Laminitis can still affect thin horses. It is not a cure to be thin. Obesity does not cause laminitis.

(Not promoting an unhealthy weight…It’s not better to be fat or obese- a healthy weight is well … healthy !
but a horse can be a lean weight and still have laminitis. Management is still key when an optimal weight).

https://www.facebook.com/100063971553190/posts/838885741587137/?

Obesity is widely believed to cause insulin resistance in people but that’s not necessarily the case in horses. In people, it is generally accepted that weight gain can lead to the developmen…

10/02/2024

The reason for science based trimming - opinion based trimming can cause unseen long term damage

Information from Dr. Robert Bowker: Osteoporosis of the Coffin Bone? That's right! The bone creep of long toes causes Osteoporosis. The coffin bone will develop large cavities and thinner bone. X-rays will show fuzzy edges, and coffin bones that are grayish on x-ray and not white. You want DENSE - VERY WHITE - bone on the x-rays, which indicates a healthy bone.

Photo here is from Dr. Bowker ("Osteoporotic Coffin Bones", The Horse's Hoof issue 35, 2009) - a 4 year old already showing signs of bone loss., and likely to have clinical problems later on. "Osteoporosis is a common but unrecognized occurrence in the general horse population." "...by preferentially loading the solar surface, rather than loading the foot more peripherally via the hoof, more and more bone will be deposited within the coffin bone (or, more conservatively, will not be lost)."

Is there an age limit to remodel back to a dense coffin bone? Bowker says, no! However, it will take longer when the horse is older. Unload the wall more and more, and the bone WILL get denser! (By loading the wall, bone is lost from the coffin bone, the mechanics of which was explained in detail to Bowker by engineers).

Remember, Good - Better - Best!

Check out Hoof Help Online! Where we welcome free discussion of hoof ideas! 😁 A unique platform for learning: You receive exclusive content you won't find anywhere else, plus a barefoot trimming course, community access, recorded livestream video events, 80 issues of The Horse's Hoof Magazine, 1000's of photos, 100's of articles, 70+ videos, FREE App and more! Learn more at: https://members.hoofhelponline.com/

The Horse's Hoof offers a free monthly barefoot horse care e-newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/thehorseshoof/50-giveaway

Happy Hooves! - Yvonne Welz

04/02/2024

Be supplement sure
Know the difference between claims and facts

⤵️
Hind gut ulcers
Creating a top line
Spring Laminitis prevented by supplements.

Helping you to ensure wise feeding and management choices because you and your horse deserve not to be fooled by clever marketing 🥰

I have been a strong proponent of the role of nutrition in health and optimal function for four decades but with the understanding that while it is pivotal it’s not the sole answer to everyth…

27/01/2024

Great advice 🥰

25/01/2024

All about toes 🥰

18/01/2024

🥰

Shared with owner consent

Change of Diet and trimmer 🥰
Outer wall not rasped. Healthier capsule grown in not trimmed on.
August 2023 to now.

Under care of owner and and (equine supplements )

Well done and looking forward to further improvements 🥰

12/01/2024

Some lovely feedback from an owner and their farrier 🥰

Hi Julie. Our farrier has said our horses have the best looking feet he's seen!

I'm really chuffed as one had white line separation 6 months ago, 1 needed corrective shoeing on her front after an aggressive trim/rasp (came to us shod), and one transitioned to barefoot 1 yr ago.

Thanks so much for all the advice!!

Thank you Nicole 🥰 really pleased 😌

12/01/2024

Welcome to
Jane Boyles, Ann Larmour, Peggy Huelsman, Lisa Mawson, Rosie Gilbert

If you have any nutrition or feet questions feel free to ask 🥰

10/01/2024

Every day is a school day 🤓
Part 2 - tonight 😍

Continuous learning from the best so that your horses can benefit 😍

Straight from the mouth of Dr. Robert Bowker: The vibration of the shoe is what is killing the back of the foot. Yes. The VIBRATION OF THE SHOE. Vibration destroys connective tissue. The fascia are damaged and other tissues must overload and then the foot deteriorates.

Find out MORE when Bowker talks about the unshod hoof! Don't miss his NEXT webinar coming up on Wednesday, January 10th. Sign up today:
Dr. Bowker on the Unshod Hoof, January 10, 2024 - 5:00 pm Mountain time zone
https://progressivehoofcare.org/2023/12/dr-bowker-on-the-unshod-hoof/

Check out Hoof Help Online! 😁 A unique platform for learning: You receive exclusive content you won't find anywhere else, plus a barefoot trimming course, community access, recorded livestream video events, 80 issues of The Horse's Hoof Magazine, 1000's of photos, 100's of articles, 70+ videos, FREE App and more! Learn more at: https://members.hoofhelponline.com/

The Horse's Hoof offers a free monthly barefoot horse care e-newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/thehorseshoof/50-giveaway

Happy Hooves! - Yvonne Welz

25/12/2023

Merry Christmas 🎄

19/12/2023

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=779454657530246&id=100063971553190

All new orders for HoofStrong will be sent as post resumes from the 27 th December.
Have a lovely Christmas everyone. 🎄
Best wishes and health and happiness to you and your horses 🎁💝

15/12/2023

Posted before and will post again “hind gut ulcer” ?

It’s difficult to go anywhere online (and probably off) where people are talking about horses without having something come up about hind gut ulcers, symptoms and treatments. There are …

14/12/2023

Due to moving 5 horses, 2 businesses and us !services will be limited this week and possibly this coming week.

Supplements’s posting will resume on Monday. And last day posting for Christmas is 20 th for tracked 24 only.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

21/11/2023

Part 2 Why do horses chew ? And how can you use it to your advantage to increase chew time………. (Concentrates are not chewed to increase moisture content in the same way as forage, and that is why those feeds that can swell should be soaked to avoid choke)

20/11/2023

Part 1 Your guide to your horses chewing behaviour, why it’s important for stomach and gut health and how to keep the gut working whilst on restricted forage ?

To keep a healthy gut forage should slowly trickle through it for up to 15 hours a day
To do this with horses on restricted forge
it’s important to know the reasons to extend chew time and why horses chew.

So a little quiz…..

06/10/2023

Just a little reminder that by- products aren’t always as bad as people might have you think 🥰 consider the benefits before the scaremongering.

First and foremost balance your diet against the minimum NRC requirements always check for feed quantities against NRC otherwise you could be spending a lot of money of not a lot of nutrition ☺️

There is a trend these days to label many highly nutritious feed ingredients as worthless wastes. This particularly falls on anything that might be classified as a by-product, including beet pulp,…

29/09/2023

Just a quick one.
Seen a recent post about feeding on a track.
The owners are missing a few key nutrients with a hay only based diet.

If your horse is on a track system with no green forage
You must supplement

Vitamin E
Omegas

As a mimimum.

And will likely need to supplement

Iodine
Selenium

If you don’t in 2 years when your horses vitamin E reserves have been depleted they will start to become ill. After another couple of years they will be clinically poorly if this isn’t then addressed the conditions can cause death.

Better still balance each horses NRC and ensure they each get what they need. As grass doesn’t contain enough of everything either. And neither does hay.

When we remove live green feed from them, that can’t be replaced like for like with conserved forage, nutrients deplete and hay has very low vitamin E and omegas, both essential for life.

Cutting out grass largely to reduce sugars, and replacing with hay means they still deserve to be nutritionally healthy, hay alone does not provide a balanced source of nutrients. And we have a responsibility to understand the consequences of this type of long term feeding.

And owners deserve to not have heavy vet bills on their hands and sick horses, after a couple of years.

Horses were not designed to eat lush grass but also aren’t designed to eat 100 % conserved forage.
A balance is better. Rather than all one or all the other. If you can’t do that then you have to provide what’s missing from the diet.

As Vanessa pointed out salt should also be available ( I have a habit of assuming it is) 👍

And Kathryn’s point - vitamin A availability should also be monitored - poor hay quality or old hay. 🥰

28/09/2023

You can only really tell how well your hoof is growing when you don’t have to rasp the outer wall to make it “look straight”

A heathy foot shouldn’t need the outer wall rasping or thinning, but should grow well connected 😉 if it isn’t then something isn’t balanced 😉 the trim or the diet

09/09/2023

Thanks to everyone who had a go…. To anyone who didn’t, please feel free to join future quizzes hopefully a bit of fun and learning :-)

here are the research answers :-) hopefully they can help you to plan your horses care to help prevent nutritional issues.
A healthy GIT (gastrointestinal tract) is one with regular steady, but low energy forage passing through it.

12/08/2023

HoofStrong balancer isn’t just about feet….. its about whole horse health… healthy coat and glowing shine are also benefits of HoofStrong

every horse deserves to walk on healthy strong pain free feet they love, but feet are the window to the horses health …. 🥰

23/07/2023

Another happy customer looking forward to seeing how the capsule changes with super supplements 🥰