I know so many use and love the Santa Cruz vitamin E. I use MVP natural vitamin E for an even 5,000 in my lanky young guy who needs muscle. It’s a bit pricier but I prefer the smaller bag actually lol. Anyone use the MVP? I used it on my late gelding too and it seems pretty palatable.
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At $.41/1000IU for the 3lb bag and .36 for the 15lb, that’s quite a lot more than the UltraCruz pellet even. Natural E is (theoretically) natural E.
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That’s the only thing I dislike about SantaCruz supplements—the huge bags. I realize product settles a bit, but I don’t need a dog food sized bag for 10 lbs of something. It takes up so much space in my trailer (I board so I store everything in the trailer) and then scooping out of it is annoying to get my hand/arm down into it every time.
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I have one who came down with a case of the winter crazies this year - general spooky, jumpy nonsense, which is not her usual at all. Had a couple of environmental changes that I thought maybe were contributing to it (she had a rough adjustment to a new devil donkey 
), but it’s also her first winter in work with me so I wasn’t sure if it’s just the way she is in the winter. Anyway, it occurred to me that she might also be low on Vit E. I increased her supp and, sure enough, my levelheaded girl is back. YMMV.
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Have you thought about putting it into a different container? I don’t ever keep it in the bag. The kind of squareish buckets that a lot of supplements come in fit best on my feed room desk, so anything that doesn’t come in one gets swapped out.
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I absolutely have. Just an inconvenience is all. Not the end of the world, but smaller bags would be simpler.
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I have done this. It’s definitely doable. For whatever reason I just keep getting the MVP on auto ship from Amazon because it’s just easier to deal with in my tack locker. Otherwise I had the large bag at home and would have to actually remember to refill my smaller bag and bring it with me. I just pay for simplification at this point in my life lol. I feel like I can’t keep track of anything as it is
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I’m not sure what you’re buying, but when I get the 4lb velcro-close Vit E, I put a bunch in an empty supplement container with a twist lid, and that holds a couple months’ worth. I’m definitely NOT dipping into that bag daily, it’s tooooo hard to close it back and not have the fine Vit E powder waft out.
I buy the biggest size I want to afford at a time, which tends to make servings less $, and just put into a smaller container as needed.
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Exactly. I may have to start doing that as well. Even the 2 lb bags of vitamin E pellets are twice the size they actually need to be. It’s just inconvenient packaging. That’s all. I’ll have to find containers that will suffice for my storage area in my trailer tack room.
Hi, thanks, it loads normally now and looks normal haha. Last year when I would click I would get pop-ups in Chinese that I couldn’t close.
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When things are sold by weight, not volume, you end up with some to a lot of air space in the bag once the product settles. The finer the particles (powdered vs pellets, very fine powders vs “meal”), the more air space you have left. And then when it’s things like potato chips, you need that air space locked in or the chips get crushed. That’s just the nature of the beast.
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But they arrive vacuum packed practically. lol
I think we can agree to disagree on this. I stand by my feeling that they have inconvenient packaging.
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I vote with you.
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I cannot get mine to close back and I refuse to wrestle with it. The bag is small enough that I kind of cram it into the same small garbage pail (technically for bird seed I think according to TSC) that my Omega Horseshine is in. I fold the bag over and make sure the lid is secure on the pail and hope that’s good enough. At least it’s away from sunlight. But I do have the wafting powder issue. Not too bad, and I keep the bag in the pail while I scoop so hopefully it just wafts and settles back into the OHS.
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I use the Walmart brand as well. It’s the cheapest where I am. I did bloodwork for Vit E & Se and the Vit E levels were good. This is for a horse on hay diet and limited amount of grass in the summer.
One time my horse had dropped one of the capsules out of the tub and onto the floor. I didn’t see it but a bunch of kids did and it created massive panic and chaos! I tried to tell them it’s a vit E capsule but they were so freaked out about what kind of icky bug it was, they didn’t hear a word I said. Oh well!
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I use Walmart, but it is no longer the cheapest. It recently went up two dollars per bottle (60 1000IU capsules) and is now around $.18 per thousand IU. I ran it by my husband, who feeds, and he agreed that the simplicity of dropping a capsule or two in each feed dish outweighs the small additional price versus the Santa Cruz.
(Fortunately, none of ours have decided to emulate @Amy3996’s picky eater.)
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