Essential Horse Hoof Care Formulas for Healthy Feet
The hoof is a complex structure, designed to support the horse's weight, absorb shock, and withstand varying terrains. The equine diet is paramount to maintaining strong, resilient hooves to ensure our horses' comfort and performance.
Keeping the Hooves Balanced With Quality Hoof Care Supplements
Effective horse hoof care is crucial for overall health and performance. While regular trimming, shoeing, and picking are important, quality hoof care supplements also play a significant role. Nutrients and essential minerals like biotin, methionine, zinc, and calcium support the growth and development of strong, balanced hooves. Integrating these supplements into your equine diet strengthens the hoof horn, making hoof care for horses more effective and manageable. By focusing on these supplements, you ensure healthier hooves for your horses.
Contact Med Vet Pharm to learn more about vitamins and minerals that promote hoof growth and balance, ensuring the best care for your horse.
Maintaining your Horse’s Hoof Health
- Picking out your horse's feet: This is an effective way to remove debris that may have lodged around the horse's sole. Picking should be done regularly to ensure a healthy hoof.
- Keep your horse on a regular schedule with the farrier: A farrier is an expert who can detect abnormalities, trim hooves, and replace/adjust horseshoes. Collaborate with your farrier to ensure optimal hoof health.
- Avoid frequent environment changes: Changing your horse's environment can cause hoof dryness, leading to weather cracks. Keep your horse in a consistent environment and avoid wet or dirty areas, which can lead to abscesses.
- Feed a Balanced Diet: Besides providing nutritious meals, offer vitamin and mineral supplements, such as biotin, to support the growth of the hoof wall.
Benefits of Maintaining Your Equine’s Hoof Health
A healthy equine hoof greatly benefits the horse and its overall well-being. Here are a few of the key advantages:
Improved Mobility and Performance
Healthy horse hooves provide better traction and support, enhancing the horse's movement and overall task performance.
Helps Reduce Lameness Risk
Horses with healthy and properly maintained hoofs have a reduced chance of injuries, infections, and conditions like laminitis, which can lead to lameness.
Enhanced Weight Distribution
A strong equine hoof bears weight evenly on the limbs, reducing stress on the joints, tendons, and ligaments. This further prevents strain on the musculoskeletal tissues.
Improved Overall Health
Effective equine hoof care directly impacts the horse's overall well-being through proper nutrition and diligent hoof maintenance.
Selecting a Hoof Supplement for your Horse
MVP supplements offers a variety of targeted hoof support supplements as well as multi-purpose wellness formulas.
Biotin II 22X™
Biotin II 22X is a pelleted daily supplement that supports normal hoof hydration, moisture retention, and hoof hardness, as well as proper digestion of nutrients. This formula is ideal for all horses, especially those that need support due to a genetic predisposition, injury, or rigorous performance demands. Biotin II 22X contains 22 mg. of biotin per serving, as well as important amino acids (methionine, lysine and cystine), trace minerals (zinc, copper and manganese) plus lactobacillus (live microbials) to support resilient and healthier hooves.
Amino 15X™
AMINO 15X™ is an advanced formula containing 15,000mg/serving of (9) key amino acids including the BCAA's (branched-chain amino acid peptides). AMINO 15X™ is recommended to help support healthy muscle function/development and help ease occasional muscle discomfort.
Exceed 6-Way (Pellets)
Exceed 6-Way makes it easy to give your horse a high level joint, hoof, gastric, digestive, and coat support in an all-in-one formula, at a savings of over 25% compared to purchasing individually. Exceed 6-Way is a pelleted formula that is ideal for horses in very heavy work, or anyone simply wanting to provide the very best multi-purpose support.
Many horses can benefit from support in several key areas, no matter their workload or discipline. Multi-purpose formulas support your horse with a total wellness approach by covering multiple areas of support for your equine partner. Spend less time feeding & more time enjoying the ride!
4-In-1 (Meal)
4-in-1 is an all-in-one supplement designed for horses in light work. Formulated to support healthy joints, hooves, coat in a tasty meal form. This unique ingredient combination targets key areas of your horses health with a highly effective economical approach. Formulated to support joints, hooves, coat, and digestion.
4-In-1 H/A (Pellets)
4-in-1 H/A is an all-in-one supplement designed for horses in light to moderate work. Formulated to support healthy joints, hooves, coat & digestion in a tasty easy to feed pellet.
5-In-1 H/A (Pellets)
5 In 1 H/A is an all-in-one supplement designed with the performance horse in mind. Formulated to support healthy joints, hooves, coat, digestion as well as vitamins & minerals in a tasty easy to feed pellet.
Vital nutrients that can help in the Hoof health of a horse
Biotin
Biotin is the most researched vitamins for hoof growth and hoof integrity and plays a role in collagen formation.
Amino Acids
Methionine and Lysine are considered essential amino acids that serve as a building block for proteins, including keratin. Methionine plays a crucial role in the formation of hoof tissues and enhances hoof strength and integrity
Trace Minerals
Trace minerals including zinc, copper, and manganese contribute to maintaining hoof growth and hardness, supporting strong hoof walls and foot structures, and reducing lameness risk.
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