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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | Has anyone ever fed regular honey, or Royal Jelly (honey product) as a pre-race boost? What were your results? |
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Location: Cypress, Texas | following |
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Location: North Dakota | What is the benefit? I've never heard of feeding honey. |
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | Never have a horse, but when my son was a wrestler when he was young I carried honey with us to the matches. Gave him a big squirt before he went down for his match. |
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| I've heard of endurance marathon ppl choosing raw honey gels over the ones you buy.
I do not seal this product but it has bee propolis in it which is kinda similar to the royal honey. I love Winners Bee Pollen, we use it for horses that we are hauling or anything that needs an immune boost. Since we started using it none of our colts at futurities have got so much as a sniffle coming back from OKC or Ft. Smith. I really have never seen much of a difference appearance wise at all but I do believe it builds immunity. You can start dosing one that comes in for training with a cold and no joke that sucker's snotty nose will start drying up.
Edited by astreakinchic 2015-01-22 12:56 PM
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Location: Piedmont, OK | I have heard of feeding local raw honey for allergies |
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Twin Sister to Queen Boobie
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | I have heard of it being used in race horses for performance / energy. |
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| I have, and know many other people who have as well, used honey for a pre-competition boost. However, I would seriously doubt that it does much for horses. Would think you would have to douse a ton of it to have any real effect on performance. |
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Location: Somewhere between S@%&# stirrer and Saint | Barrel racing is anaerobic for horses. They only breathe a few times during a run. The fuel being burned in the muscles very little oxygen to burn. All the fuel is packed into the muscles. When the muscles are packed with fuel that is all you need. The carbohydrates being simple and complex are way sufficient. Honey is just a marketing thing to sell a product.The first 10-15 seconds of muscle fuel burned doesn't even use the carbohydrates stored in the muscle.The short version because I am standing in line at the store. |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | I would like to know more info on this. My faintly owns a honey bee farm so I have access to plenty of fresh local honey. |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | I have been using honey for years and years for my performance horses. Not necessarily as a performance booster though. It's used in conjunction with vitamins to help their fatigued muscles recover better after running. And it's been shown that honey can aid some horses against bleeding. Not all of them, and it's certainly not a recommmended stand alone treatment for bleeding, but we always saw a difference in our bleeders on the racetrack when using a honey based product. |
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