Equus Health Nettle 1kg

Equus Health Nettle – 1kg

A kilo of dried nettle is forty days of feeding at the rate Equus Health publish, which is the size to buy once you know the horse will eat it. Dried, the sting has gone entirely, and most horses take it without argument mixed into a damp feed.

Equus Health describe nettle as a blood cleanser and conditioner that helps regulate body fluids, and name vitamin C, iron, sodium, chlorophyll, protein and dietary fibre among what the leaf carries. The reason most people buy it, though, is the coat: they credit it with improving bloom and dappling.

Performance & Benefits

• 1kg of dried nettles, a single ingredient with nothing added.
• Forty days of feeding for one horse at the published rate.
• Described by Equus Health as a blood cleanser and conditioner that helps regulate body fluids.
• Named constituents: vitamin C, iron, sodium, chlorophyll, protein and dietary fibre.
• Fed for bloom and dappling on the coat.

Suitable For

• Horses and ponies fed nettle regularly rather than as a short course.
• Owners preparing a horse for the show ring, where coat bloom is the point.
• Horses coming out of winter with a flat, staring coat.
• Anyone who has already tried the smaller pack and wants better value per kilo.
• If you have never fed nettle before, the Equus Health Nettle 500g is the pack to start with.

Feeding

• Horses and ponies: approximately 25g daily.
• Equus Health publish the same rate as two 50ml scoops per day.
• A single figure covers horses and ponies; there is no separate rate by height or bodyweight.
• Add to a damp feed so the dried leaf does not sit on the surface.
• 1kg at 25g a day is about 40 days for one horse.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: 100% nettles. 1kg pack.
• Equus Health name several constituents but publish no quantity for any of them, so no figures are quoted here.
• No typical analysis is declared for this herb — no protein, oil, fibre, sugar or ash percentages — and none have been invented.