Pharm Vet Vita E & Selenium Crumbles 7kg

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The 7 kg pail of vitamin E and selenium crumbles, sized for a barn feeding several horses through a winter on stored hay. Both nutrients are antioxidants that protect muscle cell membranes, and they are deficient together often enough that they are sold together. Prairie soils are widely low in selenium, and vitamin E declines steadily in hay through storage — so a barn of horses eating last summer's bales with no green grass is the textbook case for this product. Feed daily at the label rate. Horses in hard work, growing horses and broodmares have the highest requirement. Read this before you open the pail. Selenium has a narrow margin between an adequate intake and a toxic one, and with 7 kg on the shelf and several horses being fed by different people, the risk of over-supplementing goes up. Selenium toxicity causes hair loss at the mane and tail, hoof wall separation and lameness, and it can kill. The usual cause is not one big mistake but stacking — a fortified feed at full rate, plus a loose mineral, plus a mineral tub, plus this. Total the selenium from every source in front of the horse before feeding, and if the arithmetic is not clear, get your veterinarian or a nutritionist to do it. Blood testing removes the guessing entirely and is cheap next to the alternative. Post the feeding rate where whoever does chores will see it, use a level scoop, and do not let two people each add a dose. Keep the lid sealed, store dry and off the concrete.