My favorite Products: By: Caitlin Thomas

Of course in the horse health and pain management area my absolute favorite product to keep my horses as happy and pain free as possible has to be Draw It Out! I love to use this product for and after runs just to make sure they are feeling their very best when they compete! I also like to apply this product after we exercise or just when they seem a little off from weather changed, I also like to use this product on myself when I have aches and pains.

In the feed department I love to feed Nurtrena southeast 12/8 pellets, they provide my horses with allthe nutrition that they need! This feed is a very good price for someone on a budget but just because itis on the cheaper side it has everything your horse needs daily. All of my horses love the taste and theylook wonderful! I also like to add Purina Omolene #400 Complete Advantage to the mix of the southeastpellets; this feed has the beet pulp for them as well as a sweet taste for them. Now this is where I amgoing to get some strange looks, I also add ½ cup floating fish food twice a day to their feed. The fishfood is very high in protein and fat so it is wonderful for weight gain and hair/hoof growth. I also like toadd some alfalfa pellets as well. Now I have two very old mares so we have to of course feed them alittle different from those young guns. For the two older mares we really love the triple crown products,we are feeding them the triple crown senior which does not require us to give them any extra foragesince it is built into the feeds which comes in handy since one has no teeth and cannot chew the hay,while the other mare has severe COPD so the dust in the hay causes her to break into a coughing fit. TheTriple Crown senior as well as the Triple Crown complete has zero dust to it so she can eat it withoutcoughing.

For supplements I like to feed a daily MSM joint supplement just to aid in maintaining healthy jointseven on my colts to my older finished horses. I also add a daily trace mineral into their feeds twice a dayjust to make sure they are getting all the minerals they could possibly need, I have found by adding thisto their feed twice a day it has really helped their hair growth! Along with the joint and minerals I alsoadd aloe Vera juice from Walmart to their feed. I use ¼ cup but when we are on the road I give them ½cup, this aids in the prevention of ulcers. Now I have two mares that are very nervous as well as verysensitive, I add 10 off brand tums to their morning feed. I have noticed this doing this that when at abarrel races these mares’ sides would sink it now longer happens and they have kept weight on mucheasier. The last two supplement type products that I use is electrolytes when the temperature is highenough to start adding it to their feed, I also add 2 ounce pump of vegetable oil to their feed just to keepthem shiny in the summer as well as the winter.