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Location: AL | Have any of you tried this for sweet itch, infections, etc...? Suppose to help boost the immune system. The sweet itch is at it again for my 20 yr. old AQHA gelding. Willing to try anything to help relieve his symptoms! |
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Location: Fort Worth, Tx | Have an aquaintance that uses it and likes it. I have had good luck with Source myself for sweet itch, but it takes a while to show improvement. Start your horse on it now as well as a flax seed supplement if you haven't already. |
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Location: AL | Have been on flax seed since the end of last summer and has seemed to help. He is in much better shape this year than last year, but still itchy. What is Source? I have the spirulina wafers ordered and hope they will help. Also, have him on some powerful garlic to help with flies, etc..biting him. |
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Location: Fort Worth, Tx | Source is "micronutrients" derived from seaweed-things that we theoretically have eliminated from our diet due to overprocessing our food. I believe the woman who developed it (a chemist i think) was looking for something that would help with her draft horse's crumbly feet. It is available at most of the feed stores in this area and is very inexpensive, about $5 a month for one horse, which makes it easy to try. As a barn manager I put several horses with sweet itch on it and saw marked improvement about 1/2 the time and some improvement with the rest. However I did find it to be slow to work, but if you start it now hopefully it will help for the rest of the summer and definetly for next year(I would leave him on it year round.) Also, you want to be careful with the garlic...it is actually toxic in too large of a dose and I have also been told that it can lead to anemia in horses (and dogs) in certain cases, so you should have your vet check your horses iron levels periodically when on it. |
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Location: AL | yeah, I have already looked into that with the garlic and the amount that you would have to feed is exorbitant. Thanks tho for the heads up. I will try these wafers first and then go from there. I googled the Source nutrients and read about them as well. Thanks for the info! |
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Location: CA | I also love Source. In addition, I feed Not-So-Sweet-Itch made by The Natural Horse to my guy with bad allergies. It's been helping, though he still gets itchy on his belly occasionally. I suspect part of it is because he's a "busy" boy, always playing with everything...ropes, the fence, buckets, blankets, other horses. So, with an allergy, he gets obsessed with the itchiness and fiddles with the itch continually. |
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