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Feeding Horse Supplements by Symptoms

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What products best suit for the issues your horse has?  Ensure the HHIO feeding suggestions are followed as they go hand in hand with reducing, avoiding or stopping many common issues especially oxidative stress, in horses.

 The base feed plan incorporates and addresses imbalances and overlooked or lacking nutrients in the horse's diet. 

STEP ONE:
 Minerally balancing the diet

Address the fundamental wheel house of your horses health, body, longevity and performance by selecting a HHIO Everyday Mineral formula; to aid in balancing common pitfalls and excesses within your horses majority diet of forage.

Choose an EVERYDAY MINERALS selection:

No work up to light work level + easy keeper and/or no issues present.  Also includes multi horse herds: HHIO Foundation

Breeding, Youngstock + Metabolic: HHIO Foundation

No work up to heavy work (including travel + competition) + hard keeper and/or issues present: HHIO Performance

This is an important underlying part of addressing issues in your horse as mineral imbalances create a host of issues ranging from digestive, skin and coat, hoof, immune, skeletal and muscle health, behaviour and disease.  Be sure not to skip it, your horses health depends on it!

STEP TWO:
Addressing any behaviour, environment or inflammation specific issues

Next - choose the HHIO Specific Help formula that relates to your horses specific issues:

Grass Related

Minor seasonal behaviour with no digestive issues: HHIO Assist

Major seasonal/environmental behaviour with digestive issues: HHIO Support high stress dose + HHIO Assist

Feeding HHIO Performance and some minor grass related issues: Add Toxin Buster

HHIO supportive feed:

Easy choose combos with Yellow star only

Refer to easy choose combos on The Base Feed page

*Pay particular attention to the protein intake of horses prone to grass related issues, and detox liver + kidneys regularly.

Digestive Issues

Minor digestive disturbance: HHIO Support low dose

Major digestive disturbance: HHIO Support high dose

Unresolved digestive disturbance on HHIO Support: Add HHIO Rebuild

Feeding HHIO Performance and some minor digestive issues: Add HHIO Rebuild

HHIO supportive feed:

Easy choose combos with Yellow star as a good base start

Refer to easy choose combos on The Base Feed page

*Pay particular attention to avoiding the avoids list for common inflammatory and antagonistic ingredients

Metabolic

PPID, EMS, IR, Easy Keepers: HHIO Restore


If digestive issues are present: HHIO Support until symptoms resolve

HHIO supportive feed:

Easy choose combos with Yellow star 

Refer to easy choose combos on The Base Feed page

*Pay particular attention to Copper, Iron, Zinc and Manganese ratios - relevant for ALL horses although Metabolic horses are more susceptible.


Joint Support

General stiffness, elderly, arthritis: HHIO Restore (loading dose then tweak to find level that works best for individual comfort)

Coming up sore/stiff after work, hard ground soreness (not to be confused with laminitic issues): HHIO Restore

HHIO supportive feed:

Any combo feed option

*Addition of good quality cold pressed flax seed oil a must

Refer to easy choose combos on The Base Feed page

Allergies

Itchy, unresolved allergies: HHIO Support (loading dose then tweak to find level that works best for individual comfort)

May or may not need an addition of HHIO Assist or Toxin Buster


HHIO supportive feed:

Easy choose combos with Yellow star only

*Addition of good quality cold pressed flax seed oil a must

*Avoid all of the HHIO Clean feed principles avoid list especially soy and wheat

Refer to easy choose combos on The Base Feed page

Skin & Coat

Issues such as mud fever, rain scald, dull coat, rough coat and so on is addressed with our Everyday minerals formulas in combination with HHIO Support - loading dose for 7 days then reduce to maintenance.  

HHIO supportive feed:

Refer to easy choose combos on The Base Feed page

Top Line & Muscle

Issues such as harder to build top line (subject to correct training to support building muscle), older horses over 15+, poor dentition, Arthritis, age associated general stiffness, inflammation in general, severe hoof issues (growing out laminitis episode), a bit sore after age/fitness appropriate work, coming up sore on hard summer ground etc.  HHIO Restore - loading dose for 7 days then reduce to maintenance or tailor dose to individual comfort level to a max of 60g daily.  

HHIO supportive feed:

Refer to easy choose combos on The Base Feed page

 


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