So I am curious as to what the community considers the supplement Horse Guard?
Do you consider it a multi vitamin? Ration balancer? Multi purpose supplement?
I am just curious as of what others think about this supplement 
Thanks!
Multi vitamin. I was feeding the Equerry’s vitamins, but they got so dang expensive. Horse Guard has the same everything pretty much, but for half the cost. I’ve been feeding it for about 3 years now and have been very happy with it.
Mulitvitamin.
Anything in the 4oz range and less, assuming it’s not a fairly specific mineral supplement, is a v/m supplement.
1-4lb or so based on the need of the horse is pretty much a ration balancer (1lb most adult horses, 4lb for some heavily pregnant mares).
4lb starts getting into a Lite feed - think TC Lite which is fed at 1-2lb per 500lb.
Between 4-16oz are a few things (that I know of) like EquiPride, which are still basically a v/m supplement, but with just a little more oomph
Horse Guard describes itself as a “vitamin-mineral supplement” so that’s good enough for me. I use it for my horses - switched from NW Horse Supplement because HG had a better selenium content and was a bit cheaper.
The 3mg Se in that is exactly why everyone should understand selenium, and what their general area is like. 3mg/day would probably cause chronic Se-toxicity in fairly short order for many horses in Colorado, for example. There are many other areas of the US that has high soil Se content too.
Our area and that which grows the hay that I use is super low selenium. I wasn’t even aware that Horse Guard was sold outside the NW as I always thought of it as a regional product, like NW Horse Supplement, so a valid point about looking at selenium if you are in other areas.
