Yes to HorseTech! Family business for over 20 years. Almost everything is in a stabilized, food-grade base of ground flax. Rod, the owner, really knows his stuff as they say. His hand-signed holiday good wishes card was in my order last week, along with the usual cookies. There was a shortage last spring. I missed them, but they are back. Shipping is free. Customer service is unsurpassed.
When my vet recommended a joint supplement I passed on Cosequin and sent Rod a detailed email. He recommended Hylasport CTS which has soft tissue support. He included a separate container of liquid silica because bioavailability is not very good when it is in a dry-powder form. It’s in a bottle that’s easy to measure. My aging gelding has loosened up.
My horse tested at the top end for selenium. I added grain with selenium to HorseTech’s Vitamin E & selenium which I had used for several years. I called Rod. He called back. He looked up Maine on the online selenium map. It’s low here, but near-normal around Bangor. Where I lived was important. He checked the grain manufacturer’s website and recomputed serving sizes in the same units. He recommended switching to natural Vit E because the grain was sufficient. I asked him about mixing the E/Selenium with the plain E. I had recently opened a new container. A couple of pounds of natural E came a few days later, no charge. If you dump them together in one bucket they don’t mix well. I combined enough when I did my baggies.
There are so many choices in supplements these days. A lot of people are mixing various brands together and the nutritional balance often winds up out of whack for things you aren’t supplementing. I knew selenium is low around here but it didn’t occur to me that I could give him too much. In the case of selenium it could be catastrophic.
FWIW I love their saddle soap!
