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Location: GA | Looking to put my mare on a joint supplement, what are you go-to's or favorite joint supplements out there? |
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Location: IL | I love Exceed 6-way! |
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Location: God's country...aka TEXAS | I love Oxy-Max!! works on joints, lungs and ulcer prevention |
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Location: Willows, CA | As a straight joint supplement I like "Sher-Mar BFD" formulation. If you have that available in your area, it is worth a try. |
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| Adequan, pentosan, legend, and polyglycan. Joint supplements are to expensive to get flushed out when they poop. Lol |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | Lubrisyn or Cetyl-M |
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Location: NC | Cetyl M |
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Location: United States | Anything injectable, no waste. :)
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Location: TN | I've been feeding Formula 1 Noni with HA for about a month. Not sure how it's affecting joints yet but it definitely seems to be helping them recover from hard exercise quickly. |
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| I agree with the Lubrisyn and Cetyl M. I have seen a huge difference in horses after being on them. |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | FLITASTIC - 2014-12-10 5:00 PM
Adequan, pentosan, legend, and polyglycan. Joint supplements are to expensive to get flushed out when they poop. Lol
I second Pentosan. Works very very well on my 18 yo. |
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| FLITASTIC - 2014-12-10 5:00 PM Adequan, pentosan, legend, and polyglycan. Joint supplements are to expensive to get flushed out when they poop. Lol
If you calculate the monthly cost to use a feed through the injectables are not that much more $$ and you get no waste. |
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Location: Piedmont, OK | Animal Element has Performance Detox which is excellent for joints, coat and hooves. It has MSM, glucosamine and hylauronic acid in it for joints. And we have a Christmas sale that starts next week!
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Location: Heart of Texas | While I understand that injectibles are the most effective method, as someone who has had them myself, I won't submit my horse to that. They're painful and you need absolute rest for about 3 days after to let everything work. That's easier said than done with a horse and there's a lot of people that don't even realize that. I use daily supplements myself and that's what my horses will get. But too each their own. Good luck finding a supplement! I'm still hunting for one that's effective and in my price range myself lol |
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| I wish I could find a horse product with Curcumin in it. I take Curamed softgels and I know 100% for sure that this works for me. |
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| Sandok - 2014-12-11 9:32 AM
I wish I could find a horse product with Curcumin in it. I take Curamed softgels and I know 100% for sure that this works for me.
Yes you need 3 days rest for a JOINT injection, but not IM injections. DIabetics have to give several injections per day, so IM once a month a so seems OK to me. |
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Location: Heart of Texas | Aren't we talking about joint injections? |
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| Lubrysin the company says it is absorbed before it makes it to the stomach as it goes directly into the blood stream in the capillaries in the mouth and is still being absorbed in the esophagus. This is why there is no buffer. I have had good success with my young horses on this, but it does not stay built up in the system. It has to be given daily, if you miss a day, that day they have no protection against inflammation.
I do believe in adequan, but other injectible HA there is no research stating it lasts longer then a day. I read an article 3 yrs ago that actually gave the half life of all injectible and it was so minuscule not worth the money.
I have used acetyl d glucosamine and have had great results with it, I was using it weekly Iv. The arthritic horse I used it on the wind puffs would disappear that day and be back on day 3. Since it is 3/dose I could afford to give it weekly and even every 3 days. It did prolong ia injection time span.
I have exceed but haven't tried it yet. I do like the composition of it as I like collagen in supplements as it is the building blocks of all cells.
Just remember what works for one horse may not work for others, each horse is unique it is just like meds for people not every person reacts the same way to the same medication.
I have also tried formula 7 with HA, the horses liked it, and it seem to keep the inflammation out of the legs. I won mine but I have heard it is not as expensive as lubrysin, but it also contains 1/3 of HA as lubrysin does.
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Location: GA | I am totally ok with feeding a supplement daily, would prefer that over an injection, no issues to mask, just for maintenance reasons on my 18 year old running mare. |
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Location: Oregon | Tight Joints Plus. Best I've ever tried and it has worked for my older boy for two years now. |
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Location: Colorado | Phycox Max. I tried all the feed supplements, with never any results. Then I tried Phycox, I cant believe this difference in my gelding.
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | The best joint supplement on the market is the one that works the best for your horse.
I've tried so many I wouldn't be able to list them all and none of them worked the same for different horses. |
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | Magnesium, Vitamin E, Vitamin C/K with out these in the system it's hard for other joint supplements to go to work. Which is why you need so much of them. Start here and work your way up. |
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Location: Central Montana | jewishprincess - 2014-12-11 12:38 PM Aren't we talking about joint injections?
No. Adequan, Pentosan, Glucosamine, are all IM and Legend is IV. Nothing going in the joints with these. Adequan and Legend have the research behind them to back them up. |
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| Mason - 2014-12-12 8:36 PM
Phycox Max. I tried all the feed supplements, with never any results. Then I tried Phycox, I cant believe this difference in my gelding.
Is this powered phybrocoxin? Like previcox? |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | jewishprincess - 2014-12-11 11:26 AM
While I understand that injectibles are the most effective method, as someone who has had them myself, I won't submit my horse to that. They're painful and you need absolute rest for about 3 days after to let everything work. That's easier said than done with a horse and there's a lot of people that don't even realize that. I use daily supplements myself and that's what my horses will get. But too each their own. Good luck finding a supplement! I'm still hunting for one that's effective and in my price range myself lol
The injectibles above are muscle shots or legend is an IV. No rest is needed.
I give Pentosan as often as weekly as a muscle shot. I only have is joint injections done if they are needed and that is more rare now that he's on the Pentosan.
It is much more cruel to run a horse that is sore than to inject and remove the soreness. If a horse is sore, ime an oral supplement or even a non IA injectible is not always enough to remove the soreness. |
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Location: SE Oklahoma | I've been using SmartPak Smartflex Ultra for a year now. I'm really happy with it, my horses no longer pop and creak when coming out of their stalls. BUT .... after doing some research I've decided to give Oxy-Max a try. I really like the way it's formulated, and a lot of the "extra" that may just be making expensive manure is left out of the Oxy-Max |
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Location: Dubuque,IA | You can buy tumeric powder in bulk bags of 5 pounds and it is not expensive. I just bought it from nut.com and $11 or so for 5pounds. Started all mine on a tablespoon a day |
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