‘Find supplements to fix this diet’ has (finally) made it to FeedXL Beta! We are just a bit excited about this as finally we have the beginning of a feature that will help so many of you answer the difficult question of ‘OK, so FeedXL has found a few gaps in my horse’s diet… what […]
We released a couple of new FeedXL features to FeedXL yesterday! One of them was the ability to move ingredients around in your diets so you can change the order they are in without having to delete and then re-enter them (yay!!!). The second is that we have changed the way ingredients are added to […]
Biotin is a vitamin essential for many functions in a horse’s body, including: fatty acid synthesis, protein and energy metabolism and cell proliferation.
The question is, how do you know how much to feed your horse?
In equine nutrition biotin is best known and most commonly used to positively influence hoof quality. There are many biotin supplements available. Some contain only biotin, others also have nutrients like methionine and organic zinc. These supplements are marketed as hoof supplements and the one thing they usually have in common is they are expensive. The question is, does your horse actually need supplemental biotin?
