NEW-Better Bones From Equine America

Strong bones are essential as the skeleton provides protection for the internal organs, stability for movement and a mineral store. Bone is also constantly remodelling itself, this is the breakdown of old bone and formation of new, allowing bone to adapt to stress and loading pressures. Horses in work have additional pressures placed on their bones such as the weight of a rider, being worked on hard artificial surfaces or moving at high speeds for increased periods, so bone remodelling needs to mirror these stresses. Leading equine Physiotherapist Mary Bromiley, said “Due to modern agriculture our land is now deficient in vital minerals. Because of this we are producing muscle bound horses on weak skeletons. Horses are fracturing bones with alarming frequency, particularly whilst competing and training. Better Bones has been specially formulated to address this problem.”

Better Bones will provide nutrients for stronger, healthier bones a must for all horses and ponies especially fast growing youngsters, horses in hard work or recovering from a bone injury.

What does Better Bones contain?

Bioavailable Silicon – shown in recent research to be essential for good bone density, collagen structure and the utilisation of Calcium. “we found that supplementing diets of two-year-old horses in race training with a bioavailable source of Silicon reduced the frequency of bone injuries and extended the duration of training before bone injuries (occurred), compared to horses fed a conventional, control diet.” Brian Nielsen Ph.D., Michigan State University, taken from Thoroughbred Times.

Dicalcium Phosphate – a combination of Calcium and Phosphorous in the ratio to provide effective bone replenishment, in conjunction with Calcium and Magnesium.

Calcium Carbonate, commonly produced as Limestone Flour, provides Calcium. Calcium Carbonate has been included in Better Bones because when fed in combination with the nutrients above it will have positive effects on bone health, however, Limestone Flour is not very effective when fed alone.

Feeding Better Bones from a young age will give your horse the best chance of developing strong bones and when fed in combination with Cortaflex will ensure healthy bone and joints for life!

Better Bones and Cortaflex should be fed to all youngsters, especially those that have growth-related problems, or are to be worked on immature joints. Better Bones can also help to reduce sore shins. Better Bones is available in 3.5kg a 62 day supply.

For further information please contact Equine America on 01403 255809.