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Best Joint Supplements for horses

Joint supplements should be used to maintain healthy joints as a preventative measure or as supportive care.

Horses become stiff with age, joint trauma, injury and also through a lack of movement.
Joint wear and tear, over time, leads to joint changes such as thinning of the cartilage and slowly to joint degeneration resulting in arthritic changes causing joint pain and inflammation.
Therefore, managing equine joints with supportive care helps supply the joints with the nutritional building blocks to help keep your horse moving which is important to reduce stiffness and increase circulation for optimal joint nutrition.
 
 

It is important for your horses' quality of life to provide joint comfort in order to keep them active and happy.

A good joint supplement should include a source of glucosaminogylcans (such as Glucosamine and Chondroitin or Green Lipped mussel) which provides nutrition for healthy cartilage, hyaluronic acid for healthy joint lubricating synovial fluid, anti-oxidants, collagen and/or anti-inflammatory ingredients.

HOW TO MANAGE STIFF OR OLDER JOINTS

Keep your horse or pony at optimum weight. Excess weight only loads up joints and makes any exercise labouring.

Be mindful of terrain – hills may be hard for your horse or pony to walk up and down with painful joints.

Use a good quality joint supplement such as Hydra-flex CARE that is packed full of scientifically backed ingredients at fortified levels to nourish and care for joints.

Use additional support if needed for discomfort such as natural herbals like willow or devils claw.

If joints are acute with noticeable swelling and lameness investigate joint injections with your vet to keep your horse or pony comfortable and remain mobile.

Keep them comfortable and moving- joints stiffen with inactivity and will lead to a lack of muscle tone and strength.

Keep your horse or pony at optimum weight. Excess weight only loads up joints and makes any exercise labouring.

Be mindful of terrain – hills may be hard for your horse or pony to walk up and down with painful joints.

Use a good quality joint supplement such as Hydra-flex CARE that is packed full of scientifically backed ingredients at fortified levels to nourish and care for joints.

Use additional support if needed for discomfort such as natural herbals like willow or devils claw.

If joints are acute with noticeable swelling and lameness investigate joint injections with your vet to keep your horse or pony comfortable and remain mobile.

Keep them comfortable and moving- joints stiffen with inactivity and will lead to a lack of muscle tone and strength.

TIP Consider Hydra-flex CARE for healthy joint support in your horse or pony.

TIP: Keep your horses joints comfortable for an active retirement.

Joint care for older horses or the horse with arthritis.

A step by step strategy to reduce sugar in the diet

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Feed fresh pasture in the morning by strip grazing. However, always ensure hay is readily available so the horse or pony can naturally buffer their gut.
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Manage grass daily by strip grazing and hay.
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Re-assess hard feed regime and opt for high fibre forages. Reduce or omit the hard feed.
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Re-introduce hard feed when the horse settles
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Sugars increase throughout the day. Therefore putting out tape in the morning will have the lowest sugar, and at the end of the day the highest sugar.

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