What you need to know about horse feed balancers.

In this article I would like to share with you some simple tips and advice about how to find the right feed balancer for your horse, but first of all let's talk a little bit about why you should supplement your horse's diet with a feed balancer in the first place.

You see, grazing conditions are not perfect all year round and during certain periods of the year horse's don't get as many different nutrients as their bodies need. On top of this if your horse has very high workload, he has much higher demands for nutrients when compared to horses that have medium-to-low workloads and if you will fail to supply your horse with all of the required vitamins and minerals your horse might start looking and feeling really bad.

This is where feed balancers come into play. There are a lot of different feed balancer formulations: there are senior horse feed balancers, feed balancers for horses that are involved in competitive horse riding disciplines and there are of course feed balancers for everyday horses that have low-to-medium workloads.

All feed balancers are packed with ingredients that your horse needs to be in top shape. For example feed balancers for performance horses contain above-average-levels of copper and iron. These minerals are known as blood building minerals and they increase the number of red blood cells within the body. This improve oxygen transported within the blood which brings in more oxygenated blood into the working muscles. This helps the horse to perform better.

On the other hand, senior horse feed balancers contain above average levels of ingredients that support and strengthen horse's joints. Specifically I'm talking about ingredients such as glucosamine, MSM or chondroitin. These ingredients aid in renewal of connective tissue in and around the joint, as well as aid in renewal of synovial fluid, which is the joints' natural lubricant.