Performance
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Supplements designed to help your horse perform at his best. Competition and workload can take a toll on your horse's health. A heavy workload can impair immune function, muscle synthesis, work tolerance as well as cause wear and tear on his body, joints and feet. These supplements perform as hard as your horse to support top health in your high performer. What's more, none of these are swabable. |
Amino-3
$32.45
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Do you want to build muscle and put topline on your horse?
Do you want to improve his overall health and well-being?
Make sure your horse is getting the Essential Amino Acids he needs for optimum health with AMINO-3, a blend of Lysine, Methionine and Threonine. These protein-building amino acids MUST come through your horse's diet. Is your horse getting enough? The three essential amino acids required by a horse that are most often deficient in a horse's diet are lysine, methionine and threonine.
Does any of this sound familiar?- Inability to build muscle
- Poor exercise tolerance and recovery
- Muscle soreness
- Abnormal growth
- Abnormal bone development
- Impaired immune function
- Poor quality coat and hooves
THESE CAN ALL BE SIGNS THAT YOUR HORSE IS LACKING ESSENTIAL AMINO ACIDS
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Lysine is a building block for protein. It’s an essential amino acid because the horse's body cannot make it, so he needs to obtain it from food. It’s important for normal growth and muscle turnover and used to form carnitine, a substance found in most cells of the body. Lysine is responsible for promoting bone growth in foals and maintenance of the skeletal structure in mature horses. It also enhances nitrogen balance and the overall growth of young horses. Lysine deficiency is linked to a variety of developmental orthopedic diseases in young horses, especially in the legs.
Methionine is the second most essential amino acid in the equine diet, and serves many key functions in the body, including support for connective tissue, liver function and detoxification, and strong hoof tissue. Methionine is critical for the growth and maintenance of coat, hair and hoof tissues. It also promotes the bioavailability of selenium, a critical trace mineral that is also, coincidentally, often deficient in the diet. If methionine is deficient in the diet, it will most often be manifest in poor coat, hair and hoof quality.
Threonine promotes overall growth, muscle mass retention and the efficient use of feed. It also is critical in the production of adrenaline and other important hormones. Threonine deficiency can manifest itself in poor body condition and lack of energy.
- 1 scoop (20g) treats a 500kg horse. Adjust amount given based on the weight of the horse or pony.
For foals, miniatures and small ponies please download our 'Supplementation Guide for Ponies and Miniatures'
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Nutrition for athletic recovery: Your horse has given his all: strained muscle and sinew to give you every last ounce of power and speed. So what can you do to help aid his recovery? > read more
Omega-3
$50.00
- eQuus Care Nutrition Omega 3 is a stabilised dry source of essential polyunsaturated fatty acids EPA (Eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (Docosahexaenoic acid).
BENEFITS:
- Maintain joint flexibility
- Antioxident
- Promote healthy hooves
- Promote a healthy, glossy coat
- Maintain hormonal balance
- Maintain a healthy heart and good circulationOmega 3 is highly unstable: it is destroyed in hay making; it is destroyed in the process that stabilises most commercially available vegetable oils; and fresh sources, such as ground flax seed, quickly oxidise and go rancid. eQuus Care Nutrition's Omega-3 is an easy to use, easy to store dry product: the essential fatty acid is encapsulated by a protective starch coating. This coating allows for the easy release of fatty acid in the digestive system, but protects it from oxidation and moisture. -
Fatty Acid Profile:
C14:0 - C18:1 20%
C20:1 - 2.9%
C22:1 - 3.1%
C18-2 - 2.25%
C18:3 - 0.75%
C20:5 - 3.0%
C22:5 - 1.2%
C22:6 - 3.25% -
Horses 2 scoops per day (30g) Ponies 1 scoop per day (15g) Breeding Stallions 4 scoops per day (60g) Broodmares 4 scoops per day (60g) from 10 days pre-foaling to 52 days postpartum, or for whole lactation period until weaning. - We would love to hear your feedback on this product. Drop us a line here:
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The ABCs of EFAs
EFA isn't another equestrian governing body, it stands for Essential Fatty Acids. These are the polyunsaturated 'good' fats that the body needs for various metabolic processes. > read more
Joint Support
$165.00
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Joint Support is scientifically formulated with 6 key active ingredients: Glucosamine, MSM, Chondroitin Sulphate, Manganese, Copper and Zinc. These are at therapeutic values, meaning they are at high enough levels to actually make a difference. Very few joint supplements currently available provide such a comprehensive formula of therapeutic ingredients combined with the minerals needed for optimum joint tissue formation and health:
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CHONDROITIN SULPHATE is a structural component of joint cartilage. The structure of chondroitin sulphate in cartilage gives cartilage much of its compression resistance, providing shock absorption within the joint. Loss of chondroitin sulphate in cartilage may lead to osteoarthritis.
GLUCOSAMINE HYDROCHLORIDE forms the backbone of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), the building blocks of cartilage and other connective tissue.
MSM is a source of the mineral sulphur, required for the formation of cross-bridges between collagen molecules. These add strength and stability to the structure of collagen rich ligaments, tendons and joint tissues. Glucosamine functions better when there is an adequate source of sulphur.
MANGANESE is a trace mineral that is required by the body for the production of chondroitin sulphates, important in maintaining normal joint cartilage and repairing cartilage. Dietary deficiencies of manganese may result in the abnormal development of bones and joints, and impaired ability to make and repair joint cartilage.
COPPER is a trace mineral which is required for the production of normal connective tissue, including tendons, ligaments and cartilage joint lining. Copper deficiency has been indicated in developmental bone disease, including osteochondrosis dessicans. Dietary deficiency of copper may result in bone and joint disease, and tendon and ligament problems.
ZINC is a trace mineral needed in bone and joint health. Zinc is part of antioxident enzymes in the body which neutralise free radicals before they can damage normal body tissue.
- One level scoop (30g) treats a 500kg horse.
For foals, miniatures and small ponies please download our 'Supplementation Guide for Ponies and Miniatures' - We would love to hear your feedback on this product. Drop us a line here:
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Glucosamine, Chondroitin Sulphate and Equine Osteoarthritis
Recent research suggests that "supplemental glucosamine or chondroitin sulphate may help to prevent cartilage degeneration and treat OA (osteoarthritis)" > read more
Developmental Orthopaedic Disease: Physitis
In an attempt to meet specific demands, load-bearing structures have faltered and suffered accordingly. Hence, we are now presented with an array of anatomical problems that require investigation. > read more
What is OCD?
OCD, or Osteochondritis Dissecans is a developmental orthopaedic disease that is relatively common, and can affect any horse breed. > read more
3 big hitters in the fight against osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis is a chronic condition in which there is progressive degeneration of one or more joints. Symptoms include joint swelling, pain, instability, restrictions in movement and functional impairment. > read more
Immune Support
$89.99
- Is your horse suffering from one or more of the 3 BIG HITS to his immune system? Stress, nutrition and age. If a horse is young or very old, if they are not receiving adequate levels of nutrition, or when they are under stress, their immune system may fail to protect them effectively, increasing the risk of disease and infection.
In stressed animals there can be an increase in steroid production which tends to suppress the immune system. Weaning, the environment, traveling, competitions, separation anxiety or herd dynamics can all be forms of mental stress. Hard work, physical injury or stallion breeding overload can all be forms of physical stress. It's no surprise then that a performance horse traveling for many hours to a big competition, stabled in a strange environment, competes for three days then picks up that persistent cough that is going around. Other conditions such as Cushing's disease also suppress the immune system.Help keep your horse's Immune System fighting fit with all the nutrients that are essential for his immune system to function optimally. -
GLUTAMINE: blood levels of glutamine drop in exercising horses. Low availability of glutamine can severely compromise the function of the immune system cells. Glutamine is needed to: Regulate T cell proliferation, cytokine production and cytokine sensitivity. Regulate B cell antibody production and secretion. Influence the number of activated killer cells. Support macrophage activity. Provide an energy source for immune system cells.
The other nutrients in IMMUNE SUPPORT are needed for antioxidant enzyme systems that are the body's first line of defence against free radical damage. SELENIUM, METHIONINE and GLUTAMINE are needed for Glutathione Peroxidase, a crucial antioxidant system for all tissues, including the intestinal tract.
COPPER & ZINC: needed for the antioxidant enzyme Superoxide Dismutase.
METHIONINE: needed for the antioxidant acetyl-L-carnitine and for Peroxiredoxins.
VITAMIN E: an antioxidant needed to protect muscle tissue from free radical damage.
L-CARNITINE: needed for the antioxidant acetyl-L-carnitine. Carnitine can help with insulin sensitivity.
Supplementary L-Carnitine has beneficial effects in exercising horses with increased muscle adaptation to exercise. - 1 scoop (30g) per day for a 500kg horse. Adjust amount given based on the weight of the horse or pony.
For foals, miniatures and small ponies please download our 'Supplementation Guide for Ponies and Miniatures'
- We would love to hear your feedback on this product. Drop us a line here:
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Boosting immune function with nutrition
At some point in most horse’s lives there are times when their immune system is particularly stressed: fighting infection, extremes of weather, transport, injury. > read more
