Equus health Spearmint 500g

Equus Health Spearmint – 500g

Half a kilo of dried spearmint is about twenty-five days at the rate Equus Health publish, which is the point of this size: it is enough to find out whether a particular horse will clear its bucket with mint in it, without leaving you with a big bag if the answer is no.

The herb itself is the same as the 1kg — a food appetiser for fussy feeders, which Equus Health also credit with supporting the digestive system in horses prone to gassy colic, crib biting and windsucking. Mint is one of the few feed-room herbs most horses accept straight away.

Performance & Benefits

• 500g of dried spearmint, single ingredient, nothing blended in.
• About twenty-five days of feeding at the published rate — a genuine trial quantity.
• Fed as an appetiser to tempt fussy feeders and lift a plain feed.
• Equus Health link it to support for the digestive system.
• Listed by them for horses prone to gassy colic, crib biting and windsucking.

Suitable For

• Trying mint on a new horse before buying a larger pack.
• Owners of one horse who would rather not store a kilo of herb.
• Short courses — a bad fortnight of picking at feeds rather than a permanent habit.
• Keeping a small pack in the lorry for shows, where horses often eat badly away from home.
• Feeding it every day for months makes the Equus Health Spearmint 1kg the cheaper pack by a clear margin.

Feeding

• Horses and ponies: approximately 20g daily.
• Equus Health publish the equivalent as two and a half 50ml scoops daily.
• A single rate covers horses and ponies; no separate figure is given by size.
• Mix right through the feed so the smell carries.
• 500g at 20g a day is about 25 days for one horse.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: 100% spearmint. 500g pack.
• Equus Health declare no typical analysis for this product, so no protein, oil, fibre, sugar or ash percentages appear here.
• Nothing is added — no carrier, no sweetener, no vitamins or minerals.

Care & Caution

• Seek veterinary advice before feeding to pregnant mares — Equus Health's own warning, and it applies to both pack sizes.
• A horse that has gone off its feed suddenly should be investigated rather than tempted; mint makes a feed more appealing but tells you nothing about why it was refused.
• No competition status is published by Equus Health for this herb, so check the current FEI, BHA and British Eventing rules before feeding it to a competing horse.