Best Guess Mineral Mix
Best Guess Mineral Mix

Best Guess Mineral Mix – Carol Layton

(1 customer review)

$ 50.30 – $ 137.60

The Best Guess mineral mix contains significant amounts of copper, zinc plus iodine. This mineral mix doesn’t contain a smorgasbord of unnecessary nutrients and is ideal for horses where supplementation is lacking these essential minerals. A key indicator of this can be cracked and shelly hooves, and sun bleached, faded coats. Safe for laminitic prone or insulin resistant (IR) horses.

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A high bioavailable mineral mix with the minerals that most horses are deficient in using proven premium mineral sources.

The Best Guess mineral mix is ideal for horses where the mineral supplementation is lacking copper and zinc. A lack of copper and zinc can be the cause of cracked and shelly hooves, and sun bleached, faded coats.

 Elemental mineral  Per standard feeding rate
  Copper   200 mg
  Zinc   600 mg
  Iodine   2 mg

 

By adding plain salt, the standard feeding rate will be 1 metric tablespoon. The salt is a ‘filler’ so that measuring the feeding rate is very easy and convenient. Adding salt is optional. If you prefer you can leave the salt out and supplement the mix on it’s own.

Safe for laminitic prone or insulin resistant (IR) horses.

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Other Important Information

The Best Guess, Hoof Rescue and Hoof Rescue +Se mineral mixes came about after a few farriers/trimmers requested it on behalf of horse owners who didn't want to go the whole effort of testing their pasture and/or hay.

The Best Guess mineral mix contains significant amounts of copper, zinc plus iodine. Most mineral mix products contain a smorgasbord of nutrients that are known by many nutritionists as the 'everything but the kitchen sink' type. On a high pasture/hay diet, many of these nutrients are unnecessary and simply make expensive manure.

There is NO added iron and manganese which are harmful in excess, and compete with the uptake of zinc and copper. Pasture and hay tests around Australia have shown that iron and manganese is often excessive, particularly iron. There is no excretory pathway for excessive iron and excessive manganese is an issue because it takes up storage space that normally is for iron, resulting in more free iron circulating in the system.

If the Best Guess mineral mix doesn't help (poor coat appearance, compromised immune system, poor hoof quality), then we know ideally, the pasture/hay should be tested to see what the mineral levels and copper to zinc ratio is. This will tell us what amounts of copper and zinc are needed to optimise the rest of the intake (and the other nutrients like protein, calcium, phosphorus and magnesium).

Safe for laminitic prone or insulin resistant (IR) horses.
Instructions

Add plain salt as per size recommendations and mix thoroughly in a large bucket with a good lid that seals. The poly copper is a very fine powder, best to use a dust mask. The salt is a 'filler' so that each dose per day is an easy to measure size.
One level metric tablespoon of your salt should weigh approximately 22-23 grams. This is in addition to the amount of salt to feed in the diet (1-2 metric tablespoons if intake is untested). The extra amount is a bonus.
Use plain salt, for example 20 kg bags Olssons Flossy salt or Pool Salt from your stockfeed supplier or hardware stores.
Without salt, the standard dose is 5.6 grams.
Size

1.02Kg, 4.5Kg

1 review for Best Guess Mineral Mix – Carol Layton

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    Some of my horses were eating different soils all the time when out on trails that’s when I decided they might need added minerals. I have been using these minerals for the past 3 years after hearing a nutrition talk by Carol Layton.

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