Sad News About Ukele - sold Equine Products to Smartpak

Quiessence is 8000 mg magnesium. I have used the Uckele magnesium and if I recall it was 2000 or 2500mg per scoop. Not certain how much your horse requires. Either 2-4 scoops depending on what you are using it for.

I usually give 5000 mg and prefer pellets so I use MVP.

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Thanks! That’s the math I came up with too!

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I just got an email from Smartpak that the price of Cocohoof is going up $15 per 12lb bag, from $94.95 (with my USEF discount, $99.95 regularly) to $109.95, due to ā€œthe increasing cost of raw ingredients, materials, transportation, and packagingā€. That seems like a huge jump to me! I am probably going to look for something else, if anyone has any suggestions!

Yes, the Lubrigen just went up, up, up, too. I removed it from my SmartPak as my horse really doesn’t like it anyway and we’ll try plain old MSM. That is awfully expensive for Cocohoof, although I love that product! Current horse won’t eat it, guess I’m glad! I switched her to Renew Glo (from Chewy). Not exactly the same but she eats it so it makes me feel better, lol. Nowhere near as good as Cocohoof but what can you do when you have a picky pony.

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I use the Arthroxigen but that jumped $10 for my next order. The Devil’s Claw Plus has stayed the same…so far…

I agree I felt like the price increase was really big and even though it doesn’t break down to a huge daily/monthly difference in price, I’m just annoyed on principle because I doubt costs went up THAT much. I love Cocohoof too, so I’m not sure what I’ll do now.

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My non-Uckele SPs (MVP and SP brand ) went up too. Thinking it’s an across the board price increase.
I love Lubrigen pelletss but they’re way too pricey for my taste.

You will probably notice significant price increases in a large number of supplements soon. There was a fire last year in a major vitamin manufacturing plant. I work for a feed company, and the prices on our vitamin premixes have increased by 150% in the last three months.

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Thank you for sharing this! That’s very sad and would explain a lot of these increases.

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