Equus Health Seaweed 1kg

Equus Health Seaweed – 1kg

Seaweed is the cheapest broad-spectrum supplement most yards will ever buy, and Equus Health pitch it exactly that way: a fantastic, low cost balancer, and a useful one for anybody who cannot get a pelleted balancer into their horse. It acts, in their words, as a broad-spectrum vitamin and mineral supplement to enhance coat and hoof condition.

The 1kg is the trial size. At the published horse rate of 50g a day it lasts twenty days, so it is the pack to buy when you want to see whether your horse will eat seaweed at all before committing to the 3kg. Seaweed has a strong, salty, low-tide smell and not every horse takes to it first time.

Performance & Benefits

• Dried seaweed, single ingredient, nothing else in the bag.
• Described by Equus Health as a fantastic low cost balancer.
• Non-pellet, which suits horses that will not eat a pelleted balancer.
• Acts as a broad-spectrum vitamin and mineral supplement.
• Fed to enhance coat and hoof condition.
• Separate published rates for horses and for ponies.

Suitable For

• Horses and ponies living mainly on forage, where the ration needs topping up.
• Owners trying seaweed for the first time and unsure whether it will be eaten.
• Horses that refuse pelleted balancers.
• Single-horse owners who would rather not store a large bag.
• Feeding more than one horse, or feeding all year, makes the Equus Health Seaweed 3kg the better buy — this pack is twenty days for one horse.

Feeding

• Horses: approximately 50g daily, which Equus Health give as two and a half 25ml scoops daily.
• Ponies: approximately 30g daily, given as one and a half 25ml scoops daily.
• Feed alongside forage, mixed into the normal hard feed.
• Introduce it over several days — the smell is strong and some horses need to get used to it.
• 1kg at the horse rate is 20 days, and about 33 days at the pony rate.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: 100% seaweed. 1kg pack.
• Equus Health publish no typical analysis and no vitamin or mineral declarations for this product, so no figures are stated here.
• In particular no iodine content is published, which matters if you are already feeding another seaweed-based product.

Care & Caution

• Seaweed is a concentrated natural source of iodine and Equus Health publish no iodine figure for it. Do not feed it on top of a fortified balancer or a second seaweed-based supplement without checking the total.
• Take veterinary advice before feeding seaweed to a mare in foal, where iodine intake needs to be controlled.
• Horses with a diagnosed thyroid condition should not be fed an iodine-rich supplement without veterinary advice.