Equi Horse (Balanced Equine)

Balanced Equine’s Equi Horse mix (formerly known as Hoof Rescue) is a nutritional mineral supplement with copper and zinc plus iodine and magnesium and a small amount of calcium and phosphorus to help maintain optimal hoof, coat, hair and immune system health. Formulated to provide the most commonly deficient minerals – copper and zinc based on thousands of pasture and hay laboratory tests. Equi Horse is a highly bioavailable mineral mix containing proven premium mineral sources based on equine research.

Balanced Equine’s Equi Horse is suitable for

Any horse or pony to help maintain optimal hoof, coat, hair, and immune health Safe for laminitic prone or insulin resistant (IR)/elevated insulin horses.

Features and Benefits

• Copper has a role in coat colour, iron metabolism, bone development, hoof quality and maintenance of elastic connective tissue.
• Zinc has a role in general growth and metabolism, required for normal bone and cartilage development, involved in maintaining the integrity of skin and mucous membranes, hair and hooves and in wound healing and has a role in maintaining a normal healthy coat. Essential for interactions between proteins and a variety of enzymes that all metabolically active cells require for cell multiplication and maturation. Zinc is a key component of ‘zinc finger proteins’ in the assembly of keratin, a hoof building material. A zinc deficiency can be expressed as slow hoof growth, thin walls and weak connections and horn.
• Copper and Zinc prevent the fats and oils in the protective seal on the hoof from oxidising. Oxidative damage causes over drying and weakens the connections between cells. When the hoof is weak, it is more vulnerable to attack by organisms via microscopic cracks. In cattle, deficiencies in either copper or zinc have been linked to soft feet, cracks, abscesses, thrush and laminitis.
• Iodine has a role in normal thyroid function and is a component of thyroid hormones which regulate metabolic processes including hair growth.
• Magnesium The symptoms of a magnesium deficiency are the same as for excessive ionised calcium compared to magnesium. Symptoms include twitching, irritability, and hypersensitivity. Magnesium has many different jobs to do in the body and one of the most important is to control ‘excitable’ tissue activity, including the nervous system, heart, skeletal muscle and smooth muscle in the intestinal tract, uterus, urinary tract and blood vessels.

Feeding Recommendations

• The standard feeding rate is 1 metric tablespoon.
• For horses under 300 kg, 1/2 metric tablespoon may be sufficient. Small: net weight = 2.9 kg – will last just under 6 months based on the standard feeding rate for one horse. Large: net weight = 4.9 kg – will last 9.5 months for one horse based on the standard feeding rate – economical pack.
• Equi Horse mix can be fed with Mov-Ease, Yea-Sacc, and Mycosorb A+, and can be fed in addition to Best Guess mix if needing higher copper, zinc and iodine levels but don’t need higher level of magnesium and selenium. Equi Horse mix is a nutritional supplement product for inclusion in horse’s feed. Product has no therapeutic effect and is designed to be administered in a feed for voluntary ingestion for horses.

For animal consumption only.

Composition