Horse Care FAQs

Quick Answer:

The essential nutrients required for maintaining optimal horse health include water, carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals.

Why it matters:

While a forage first diet is always the recommended starting approach, there are often gaps due to variations in forage quality and horse workload. These gaps can be addressed by supplementing with a daily comprehensive wellness formula, like Platinum Performance® Equine, which contains beneficial vitamins and trace minerals along with antioxidants, amino acids, and omega-3 fatty acids.

Quick Answer:

By feeding a forage-based diet and supplementing with omega-3's, antioxidants and amino acids, you can help to support normal healthy levels of inflammation in your horse's body.

Omega-3 and Omega-6 Balance:

Omega-3 fatty acids cannot be produced in sufficient quantities by a horse's body to support health and therefore must be consumed in the equine diet. In the wild, horses are natural grazers and consume 2-5 times more healthy omega-3 fatty acids than omega-6s, where the modern grain-based diet provides 17 times more omega-6 fatty acids than omega-3's.

This dietary imbalance causes excess inflammation and can predispose horses to a host of chronic and severe health conditions. By feeding a forage-based diet and supplementing with omega-3's, antioxidants and amino acids, like those found in the Platinum Performance® foundation formulas, you can help to support normal healthy levels of inflammation in your horse's body.

Platinum Performance® offers two advanced joint supporting wellness formulas to support joint health: Platinum Performance® CJ and Platinum Performance® DJ. Each contain their own unique ingredients to provide extensive joint support.

Dietary changes can be challenging for horses. Including nutrients like prebiotics and probiotics to the diet, which can be found in Platinum Performance® DJ, Platinum Performance® GI, Platinum Gastric Support® and Platinum Balance®, can help your horse through nutritional changes and support long-term digestive health.

Helping manage weight through nutrition is a great option. Whether your horse is underweight or overweight, Platinum Performance® has formulas to help support your horse’s unique needs.

Underweight: Healthy Weight oil provides a healthy source of omega-3 fatty acids and calories to the diet, helping support the hard keepers.

Overweight: Beta Lip-Ox® was designed to help your horse utilize calories better which, when combined with exercise, can help support weight loss.

There are more nutrients than just biotin that support horse hoof health. Additional nutrients needed to support a healthy hoof include zinc, manganese, copper, cobalt, methionine, and L-Lysine. These ingredients are all found in Platinum Performance® Equine in maintenance amounts. For horses needing advanced support, Platinum Hoof Support provides concentrated levels of these important hoof nutrients.

When a horse is sick or injured, it is important to provide additional support for the immune system, which is key to recovery. There are also predictable times of distress that could lead to sickness in a healthy horse. Platinum Immune Support can help promote healthy immune function when a horse has potential exposure to illness or a compromised immune system. Athletic horses are particularly susceptible to immune health issues due to their rigorous training and travel schedule.

Anxiety can be challenging for horses and their owners who care for them. Adding in calming ingredients like magnesium and l-theanine found in Platinum Gentle® can help support proper nervous system function and a pronounced state of calmness in some horses.

Antioxidants help address free radical damage and provide support during oxidative stress. They can be incorporated into the diet through a forage-first diet and advanced levels can be added by supplementing with a daily wellness formula, like Platinum Performance® Equine, which includes antioxidants like vitamins E, C and selenium.

Quick Answer:

You can support your horse’s skin and coat through nutrition by providing omega-3 fatty acids, antioxidants, vitamins, and trace minerals, which help maintain coat and skin health.

Filling Nutritional Gaps:

Adding in a daily wellness supplement such as Platinum Performance® Equine to help fill in common nutrient gaps is a great way to support a healthy, shiny coat as 96% of Platinum clients report a positive effect on hair coat when using one of Platinum’s wellness formulas.

When More Support Is Needed:

For advanced cases like a dull, dry or itchy coat, consider adding in Healthy Weight oil or Platinum Skin & Allergy.