Re: [RC] Joint supplements in treat form? - firedancefarms
Jennifer,
I'll reply on ridecamp as well as
others might be interested in my mare's results. We have a 26 year old
mare who got arthritis in her neck really bad..so much so that she couldn't bend
down to drink or eat. We did the adequan injections series and now she is
on 'chondroprotect' which is a shot she gets every two weeks. She is a new
horse: gallops to the barn and grazes in the pasture.
The cost works out to be $1 a
day. Because she is a pasture horse, it would be very difficult to give
oral supplements.
In other horses, I have seen no
evidence that the oral supplements work. I do believe MSM worked on
an older gelding we had.
There is a treat called HER MAJESTY'S
Wafers that has the supplement.
In my one horse study, I gave the
biotin version of this treat religiously for 8 months to a horse with
terrible feet and saw no difference at all. Guess that wasn't the
problem! But it sure was convient to just hop out and give her a wafer
before I left for work in the morning!
