Need to gain condition, get a shinier coat and maximize performance?

Condition & Shine may be the right choice. Condition & Shine provides your horse with an easy to administer and very palatable source of slow- release energy. This high oil supplement also contains anti-oxidising vitamin E and Selenium to stabilise free radicals, which are released during the break down of oil to produce energy. Linseed also has an incorrect Phosphorous Calcium ratio, so this has been balanced by the addition of Calcium Carbonate to ensure correct muscle and nerve functions. Naturally occurring amino acids promote topline, which alongside the conditioning, health and exercise related properties of the oil make this an ideal supplement for a wide range of horses, including those that need to gain weight, poor doers, those with reduced appetites, performance horses, older horses, and to prepare horses for the show ring. Condition & Shine for Weight Gain For a horse to be healthy and perform well, they must be at their ideal weight. For poor-doers, this may mean adding calories into the diet. Traditionally, underweight horses were given lots of cereals to help them to gain condition, but we now know that this can lead to complications, such as health problems and behavioural issues. Instead, a safer way to help your horse gain weight is to slowly introduce oil, or an oil based supplement to their diet. This will provide your horse with a calorie dense, slow release source of energy. Of course, adding oil, or indeed any additives to the diet is often easier said than done, as many horses that struggle to keep weigh on are fussy eaters. For this reason, Feedmark have formulated Condition & Shine to be an easy to feed supplement, containing highly palatable micronized linseed, and natural mint for pleasant aroma and taste. Condition & Shine for Performance Condition & Shine is an ideal addition to the diet of performance horses. The high oil content makes this an energy dense supplement, providing high amounts of calories in a small volume (over 2x as much energy is produced from fats as from carbohydrates in cereals). This allows calories to easily be added to the diet, ideal for performance horses already receiving large bucket feeds. The high levels of oil are also beneficial for performance in another way. Oils can only be broken down to produce energy where oxygen is available, which occurs during low intensity exercise, such as walk, trot, and slow cantering in fitter horses. In faster work oxygen is not available at a rate to produce enough energy to sustain the movement, so anaerobic (without oxygen) break down of glycogen and glucose occurs in order for your horse to meet their energy requirements. It has been shown that by gradually conditioning a horse to a high oil diet, they start to use the oil preferentially over glycogen for fuel for aerobic exercise. This means when the horse starts to perform higher intensity exercise, which requires breakdown of fuels without oxygen, they have a ‘full tank’ of glycogen ready to be broken down, allowing the horse to perform for longer and recover faster from intense work. As well as being high in oils, Condition & Shine provides a good range of essential amino acids, naturally occurring in micronized Linseed and Soya Meal. These nutrients form the building blocks of muscles, and help encourage topline formation in conjunction with correct exercise. Condition & Shine for behaviour If you have a highly strung, fizzy type, you will be all too aware than extra feed can result in behavioural issues. Feeding a slow-release energy source, such as Condition & Shine will provide your horse with the extra calories needed for weight gain, without making them fizzy or excitable.   Condition & Shine for health Condition & Shine contains both Micronised Linseed and Linseed oil. This type of oil is considered beneficial to your horse’s health compared to many other oils, including sunflower and vegetable oils. This is because it has a beneficial Omega 3:6 ratio of 4 parts Omega 3 to 1 part Omega 6. Omega oils are fatty acids which are not made within the body, so they are known as ‘essential’ fatty acids, as in they must be included in the diet. Omega 3 and 6 fatty acids have many roles within the body, so supplying these is very important. Omega 3  is important for development within the womb. Even short term supplementation has been shown to help the skin and coat. Long term addition of Omega 3 to the diet can also helps the respiratory tract, joint health, bone density, and has been shown to promote fertility of stallions, and support the immune system of foals feeding from an omega-3 supplemented mare. Omega 6 is also necessary in the diet, as has other roles in the body, such as with hormone production.  Why add an oil-based supplement gradually? It takes a while for horse's  bodies to get used to using oil as an energy source, so gradual introduction is key to the successful feeding of an oil based supplement. This is because oil is broken down using bile. In humans, the gall bladder stores and releases bile. Horses do not have a gall bladder, as they have not evolved to eat a high fat diet.  Instead, the liver produces a constant trickle of bile. By slowly adding more oil to the diet, the liver can be ‘trained’ to produce higher levels of bile, to allow a higher fat diet to be utilised by the horse.