With a winter nip already in the air, Equivet Animal Care Products Ltd advises horse owners and riders to prepare for the cold weather early. Reduced access to pasture and limited exercise means extra care has to be taken to ensure your horse is getting the necessary nutrients and vitamins required to keep him healthy and strong during the winter months.
Now is the time to make sure you have adequate supplies to get you and your horse through the cold season and Equivet is here to help. From its popular Harmony and Speed ranges, Equivet offers seven essential products to help care for your horse during the harshest conditions. Each has been developed using nature’s finest herbs and active ingredients to soothe winter strains and ease ailments that are all too common for our four-legged friends.
The all-natural Harmony products include six feed supplements to complement his usual diet and a Speed topical application to help relieve his skin if mud fever strikes. The specially formulated products help aid horses’ winter digestion, fight coughs and allergies and soothe joints and muscles. So, whether it is a winter soother or seasonal maintenance you require, there’s a product for every horse, from ginger, vitamin E, minerals and probiotics through to calming products and bacteria controllers.
Supplementing your horse’s feed with natural ingredients helps keep him healthy from within all winter long. Here are some of Equivet’s winter essential supplements and applications:
• Vitamin E – This natural muscle soother is obtained from the soil in the summer months. However, limited access to pasture in winter means supplementing his diet with Vitamin E is essential to help stabilise lactic acid levels to keep muscles relaxed. (Harmony Super Vit E, 1kg, RRP £17.00)
• Ginger - Helps to rehabilitate tendons, joints and muscles after the busy summer eventing and showing. Its powerful anti-inflammatory properties make it ideal to introduce to the feed of injured, resting horses too. (Harmony Super Ginger Pearl, 750g, RRP £35.50)
• Chelated minerals - ensure optimum absorption of key nutrients during digestion and can help maintain peak condition in less active horses, making it ideal for winter usage. (Harmony Super Min, 1kg, RRP £12.50)
• Live yeast and probiotics - flooding the gut with ’friendly bacteria’ enables it to perform to its maximum capability. (Harmony Super Balance, 1kg, RRP £20.00)
• Valerian – This natural root herb supports the body’s functions against fear and sensory overload, making it great to offer to unsettled, restless horses, who spend extended periods stabled. (Harmony Super Calm, 1kg, RRP £24.00)
• Liquorice root, rose-mallow root, garlic, ginko, hemp agrimony and buckwheat – These ingredients combine to offer horses relief from coughs and allergies, reducing his chances of suffering from an upset upper respiratory tract. (Harmony Super Breathe, 1kg, RRP £27.50)
• Active bacteria controller (a pro-biotic for the skin) – Applying this natural solution to the exposed parts of the skin helps remove harmful bacteria, reducing the chance of infection and providing a healthy skin. This is especially useful for use on legs, which are prone to mud fever to provide a protective layer between the horse and water. (Speed Bac Control, 250ml, RRP £13.00)
Giving your horse natural feed supplements and applying topical applications can help him through the harsh winter conditions. Adding extra vitamins and herbs to his feed is essential when he is spending longer periods stabled and less time enjoying pasture and exercise. Offering your horse soothers or seasonal maintenance is simple this winter thanks to Equivet Animal Care Products Ltd’s Harmony and Speed ranges. The products have been carefully created with nature’s finest ingredients and tested to ensure the flavour and texture appeal to horses, so he will enjoy taking them and you will have peace of mind during the winter.
For more information on Equivet Harmony and Speed contact Celia Gadd, Equivet Commercial Director on freephone 0808 108 4995, email info@equivetanimalcare.com or visit the website: www.equivetanimalcare.com
