As the title suggests what vitamin E supplement would you suggest.
I am in Canada so not all products are available.
Thanks
Best bang for your buck are the human natural vitamin E capsules. Usually cheapest at cost. Extra bonus points if you can stock up during their twice per year sale (maybe coming up soon, the other date is usually about October).
Do the math per IU. And yes, they will eat the capsules just tossed into their food (or at least my food hounds do!)
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I really like the liquid Vitamin E from Smartpak. It always ships safely and is a great deal if you purchase the bottle instead of the liquidpacks
Seconding the human capsules, even my fussy filly doesnât seem to notice when she chomps them down. I wet my feeds and they start to disintegrate reasonably quickly in water.
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My horses pick the people gel caps out, even the (very) eager eater.
The powder or pellets from Santa Cruz have been my go to for years (although unsure if they ship to Canada?)
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I use the Santa Cruz Natural Vitamin E Powder. I give less than the directions indicate because there are good levels of (mostly synthetic) Vit. E in several other things my horse eats. So the Santa Cruz lasts a long time and it kind of just goes away into the mash I feed.
Iâm also not sure if itâs available in Canada though.
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Do you mean Costco has the cheapest?
I came across a Vitamin E product from Purica that has 28g Vit E in a serving size of 1tbsp (93g). So 4,268 IU? If I use Mad Barnâs numbers I get 1,706.59 IU I freely admit Iâm not that clever so Iâm hoping someone can tell me why Iâm wrong and get 2 different answers.
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Iâm in Ontario and feed vitamin E so Iâm familiar with whatâs available up here.
I like the Herbs for Horses Vit E/Selenium product, which is very palatable.
The MadBarn vitamin E single ingredient product is also good and reasonably-priced. It doesnât have any filler or flavour but most horses seem to eat it pretty well. If you go with MadBarn feel free to use my discount code to save a bit: 5%-OFF-FROM-MARISSA-H
If youâve got a picky eater and your horse can have some sugar (ie. not IR), Greenhawkâs Greenline product smells delicious and my horse gobbled it up. Itâs not natural vitamin E, but one scoop provides over 3000 IU and I was only supplementing with about 2000IU of natural vit E, so I figure itâs about the same. Itâs also on sale right now during Greenhawkâs spring warehouse sale - 30% off until Sunday.
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Are you talking about this product?
It has 2.85 g vitamin e in a 9.3 g scoop.
2.85 g = 2850 mg.
2850 mg * 1.49 iu = 4246.5 iu.
Where are you getting a calculation or total from madbarn on this particular product? Curious why what youâre seeing there is so different!
They use synthetic E, which means the 2036IU becomes more like 1364 (not terrible, just not 2000), and comes with 1mg Se. The combination of Se means you really canât increase the dosage a lot without knowing the horseâs blood level of Se. I donât recommend combination E/Se products for this reason without blood work showing the amount in X serving (1 scoop, 2 scoops, whatever) is suitable.
That said, an extra 1mg of Se isnât a problem for most horses, but itâs somethign to be aware of, and look at all the things youâre feeding to make sure youâre not adding âjustâ 0.5 and 1.0 and 0.75 here and there and there, on top of whatâs in the fortified feed
Close, itâs 4248IU in their 1 scoop serving size of 2.85gm (2850mg) of Vit E
I canât find the Purica Vit E in MBâs database, just a few other Purica products. The closest I find is the Dr Reedâs 30, which is a v/m product, which has 1782 IU of E.
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Sorry, I was lazy with the numbers and just used 1.5 conversion 
According to Mad Barn 1 scoop (1.67g) = 1,000 IU. The Guaranteed Analysis for the concentration is 600,000 IU/kg
So Mad Barn says: 1.67g (sc) = 1,000 IU
Purica says 2.85g (1 sc) = 4,248 IU
If I plug the number 2.85g into Mad Barnâs Guaranteed Analysis (you can change the serving size) I come up with 1,706.59 IU.
can you link to the Purica Vit E on Madbarn? I still canât find it LOL I searched the feed database, and the site in general
Are you looking at just a general vitamin e powder on Mad Barn? Because one scoop of the Purica power isnât 1.67 g. Itâs 9.3 g.
On their website Purica says in that 9.3g scoop serving, the actual amount of Vit E is 2.85g and the rest is Inulin to get 9.3g I thought thatâs what they meant.
Sorry, I shouldâve specified. I got the calculations directly from the Mad Barnâs bag of Vit E. Guaranteed Analysis âcalculationâ. Iâm not explaining this very well.
I went to Mad Barnâs Vit E product and scrolled down to their Guaranteed Analysis for MB Vit E and plugged in 2.85g
Very kind thank you.
Madbarn Omniety supplyâs 8500 IU vitamin E, is that a bare minimum, should a bit more be added?
I think itâs 8,500 IU/kg or for a serving size 200g yielding 1020 IU
Why are you expecting the mad barn product and the Purica product to contain the same vitamin e per scoop or per gram?
Or am I really misunderstanding your concern with the values not matching.
Theyâre different products.
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Ah, yehâŠI get it⊠I see where the differences lie. Conc. is different so their calculation wouldnât apply. Duh. Sorry about that. I was just pleasantly surprised that one scoop from Purica would give you 4,248 IU. Thatâs pretty good.
