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Calming Horses - Feeding Considerations
- Check that your horse has plenty of clean, fresh water at all times, whether stabled or turned out.
- Provide ad-lib forage and small feeds to support both digestive and mental health. This approach provides both a fibre based, trickle fed diet for improved gut health and curbs boredom.
- Chewing time is extended by feeding ad-lib forage, producing saliva, which naturally buffers stomach acid.
- Both the forage itself and the saliva created by chewing help to settle the stomach which in turn can help horses feel more settled in themselves.
- Feed a balanced diet (including all vitamins and minerals) to maintain long term health.
- Provide a diet high in fibre, low in starch, and free from whole cereal and molasses to help curb enthusiasm.
- Avoid cereals where possible, using oil and quality fibre as slow release energy sources.
- Blue Chip balancers are low in starch with no added sugar, plus whole cereal and molasses free.
- Feed calming ingredients if needed. Calming Balancer is formulated with three powerful natural calmers; magnesium, chamomile and L-tryptophan.
- Calming Balancer is fed daily to settle horses for the long term and contains everything you have come to expect from a Blue Chip balancer, including; probiotics, nucleotides, vitamins, minerals and nutrients, alongside full hoof and respiratory supplements.
- Feed according to work, make sure you adjust the feed accordingly and gradually - over at least one week.
- Karma, Blue Chip’s liquid calming supplement, can be added to your horse’s diet for additional calming benefits as your horse requires it (ahead of travel, shows, potential stressful situations), or daily if needed.
- As a liquid, Karma is absorbed into the bloodstream quickly, proving valuable for both short and long term use.
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