Articles Tagged with ''vitamins''

Nutrient Strategies

Feeding the Geriatric Horse

Although horses 20 years and older have special nutritional needs, your clients can keep them healthy through their golden years by paying attention to their special needs
The major concern among farriers working with geriatric horses is normally whether their arthritic joints have made it difficult for them to hold their feet up long and high enough to be trimmed. But while you're working under an equine senior citizen, it's difficult not to notice when they begin to get ribby.
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Nutrient Strategies

Those Amazing Minerals

While they may not make up a very big portion of the daily diet, minerals play a key nutrition role and contribute significantly to horse health
Of all the ingredients found in a horse's diet, minerals are among the most unusual.
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Nutrient Solutions

Those Vital Vitamins

Vitamins have the power to promote and regulate virtually all of the body’s normal functions

We’re veering back into more familiar territory with this month’s nutrition topic. Most farriers have at least a passing familiarity with the role of vitamins in hoof health — and indeed, several play a vital part in the growth of healthy horn and soft tissues.


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American Farriers Journal Checklist

Sound Nutrition For Sound Hooves

Biotin has proven to aid the proper development of healthy hooves. Studies have concluded that adding 10 to 40 milligram of biotin per day, depending on weight, results in improved hoof hardness, integrity and conformation.
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