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59. Top Calming Supplements for Horses
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Riding and working with horses poses some inherent risk of danger, but the risk is greater when working with an aggressive or moody horse.
For this reason, horse owners often look to calming supplements to help make their horse more manageable and easier to train.
Calming remedies are also used during stressful situations such as trailering, showing, farrier work, and veterinary visits.
Despite their popularity, calming supplements may be one of the least studied supplement categories in horses. Behaviour can be hard to quantify which makes it a difficult topic for researchers to study.
In this podcast, we evaluate the mechanisms, bioavailability, safety and efficacy of some of the most popular calming horse supplements available on the market today. We also rate the ingredients on the strength of the research evidence in horses.
Read more: https://madbarn.ca/calming-supplements-for-horses/
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