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Horse Colic

Formulas to Keep Your Horse Healthy

When is Colic a Concern?

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Supplementing for healthy digestion can help your horse avoid gastrointestinal health issues like horse colic.

Supplements for GI Health

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Platinum Performance® Equine
The Equine Wellness & Performance Formula

Platinum Performance® Equine was created out of clinical necessity as a comprehensive omega-3 formula to transform equine health at the cellular level. Because of its comprehensive nature, the ingredients work synergistically to support every aspect of health and performance, including joints, muscles, hooves, skin and coat, digestion and more.
Recommended daily dosage for a 1,000 lb horse is 2 scoops, which is 2 servings.

Price starting at $77.00
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Platinum Performance® GI
The Equine Wellness & Performance Formula + Digestive Care

Platinum Performance® GI provides a gastrointestinal-focused approach to total horse health. Equine gut health is not only important for proper digestion but also immune health because an estimated 70-80 percent of the immune system lives in a horse’s gastrointestinal system. This veterinary-developed formula provides omega-3 fatty acids, antioxidants, vitamins, trace minerals, along with Bio-Sponge®, prebiotics, probiotics and glutamine for GI support.
Recommended daily dosage for a 1,000 lb horse is 2 scoops, which is 2 servings.

Price starting at $117.00
Helps Maintain Equine Stomach and Hindgut Health

Platinum Gastric Support® helps maintain a healthy mucosal barrier, healthy gastric acid levels in the stomach, and normal healthy levels of mucosal inflammation. This formula is recommended for performance horses, foals experiencing stress from weaning, and any horse prone to gastric health issues.

Price starting at $132.00
A Daily Probiotic to Maintain Equine Digestive Health
This daily probiotic formula provides both prebiotics and probiotics to support digestion and hindgut health. This formula can be helpful in horses that have difficulty maintaining weight, are susceptible to hindgut issues, or frequently have a loose stool.
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Price starting at $37.00

The Impact of Nutrition

We know that nutrition plays a critical role in equine health and has a direct impact on a horse’s digestive health. A more natural diet with limited grain and concentrates, the most appropriate supplements and regular preventive veterinary wellness care can help your horses stay healthy and performing at their best.

Up to $10,000 in Colic Surgery Reimbursement

Research shows veterinary preventive care - including proper nutrition, deworming, dental care and vaccinations - can improve a horse's long-term wellness and influence the rate of serious medical conditions such as colic. Learn about Platinum Colic Coverage® and how you can enroll your horse in this free program that provides reimbursement in the case your horse requires colic surgery.

Maintaining a Balance

For Healthy Digestion

Platinum Balance provides an elaborate blend of prebiotics and probiotics to help support digestion and gut health. This formula is helpful for horses prone to hindgut ulcers.

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How to Help Prevent Colic in Horses?

There are many variables that may cause a horse to colic or have abdominal pain. Many cases of colic are directly linked to the diet and may be preventable with turnout, proper diet and adequate water consumption. The horse’s natural diet consists of forage grazing and browsing throughout the majority of the day. However, modern feeding practices typically include grains or sweet feeds that contain a high level of simple carbohydrates that are usually administered in a meal setting. This may induce some cases of colic by overwhelming the digestive capacity of the small intestine and altering the pH of the hindgut.

Recommendations to Help Prevent Equine Colic Include:

  • Allowing horses consistent access to a high forage diet of hay or pasture may help reduce the risk of colic.
  • For horses that need additional calories from grain, feeding smaller, more frequent meals can allow the small intestine to properly digest the carbohydrate load and prevent hindgut acidosis, which can prevent colic.
  • Make all feeding changes gradually, including new hays, to allow the hindgut microbiome to adapt to new feeds.
  • Provide digestive support, such as a daily wellness supplement that provides omega-3 fatty acids that may reduce intestinal inflammation and pre- and probiotics to maintain healthy hindgut bacteria and aid in normal digestion.

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Real Clients. Real Results.

Radar

Radar

Platinum Performance® client since 2008

“Radar was diagnosed with hind gut issues and had been doing generally well, until he started dropping weight at an alarming rate. He had always gotten Platinum Performance Equine, but at the suggestion of my vet, I added Platinum Gastric Support as an emergency measure, then added Platinum Balance and Healthy Weight. Radar gained 100lbs in about 2 months.”
— Charlotte T.

Queen of Hearts

Queen of Hearts

Platinum Performance® client since 2010

“Queen of Hearts is a registered American Miniature Horse. We have raised her from birth and still have her mother. Queen is part of our Multiple Hitch team and has won numerous Championships as a team at the World Shows and Calgary Stampede. Over the years she has endured bouts of colic. We started her on a daily dose of Platinum Balance and L-Glutamine. Your product is the reason she continues to look and remain healthy. In 2012 at 23 years of age she and “Renegade” the other member of this team won World Champion Multiple Hitch and Antique Vehicle at the AMHA World Show in Texas. I am a strong advocate of your products and they are the reason for her success and health.”
— Marcia S.

Which Formula is the Right One?

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