DIENSTEN - Equi Nutri Care

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Our services are designed to optimize your horse's well-being through personalized, science-based nutrition plans. With a deep understanding of the fascinating relationship between nutrition and health, we strive to help your horse thrive.

Choosing Equi Nutri Care means access to a wealth of knowledge and ongoing support. Our team is committed to providing you with the tools and insight you need to make informed decisions about your horse's diet. We remain at the forefront of research into the best suited equine nutrition and integrate the latest developments into our services.

We pride ourselves on our exceptional customer care, providing personal attention and guidance every step of the way. Our passion for horses drives us to go to great lengths to ensure that your horse receives the best possible nutrition for a lifetime of vitality and happiness. Our customized approach ensures that each horse receives a nutrition plan that is as individual as he is.

Contact Equi Nutri Care today and begin the journey to optimal nutrition with us, where science, expertise and a deep love for horses come together.

General Nutrition Advice

Includes a complete assessment of the horse, housing and current ration.
Includes:

If desired:

General nutritional advice has added value in case you would like an evaluation of your current feed management, need help putting together a balanced diet for obese or anorexic horses, are looking for a weight loss program for your horse that is getting fat on air or just struggling to get your horse to gain weight, want advice to improve general condition, are looking for solutions for difficult eaters and of course for general questions about nutrition.

Clinical Nutrition Advice

Nutrition is not an isolated treatment and consequently will not cure a condition. On the other hand, an appropriate diet does work to support the veterinarian's treatment. Consider, for example, EGUS, or better known as peptic ulcer.

Proper feed management also works symptom-fighting as in the case of allergies or intolerances or preventively, as in the case of horses prone to colic, for example.

Depending on the information already available, the condition and if your veterinarian is open to it, we prefer to work together with the treating veterinarian for optimal results.

Clinical nutritional advice is valuable in cases of EGUS, EGGD and ESGD, colic, laminitis (laminitis) Insulin resistance, PPID (cushing's), EMS, HYPP, PSSM 1 and 2, MFM, EPM, myopathy, allergies and intolerances, grass sickmness, liver and kidney disease and so on.

This service includes additional options.

Performance-related Nutrition Advice

Regardless of whether a horse is a top athlete, pulls a have day's carriage with tourists or needs to knock out several hours of lessons at the riding school, a horse that needs performance has different needs than a recreational horse.

And while nutrition alone does not make a horse a top athlete, what performance horses eat and drink has a big impact on their performance and on their recovery after performance.

Therefore, it is important that the ration meet the nutritional requirements proportional to the efforts to be made and in accordance with the horse's nature.

Because the right amount of nutrients at the right time contribute to better muscle building, better performance, faster recovery after exercise and reduced risk of performance-related injuries.

This service includes additional options.

Age-Related Nutrition Advice

Includes a complete assessment of the horse, housing and current ration.
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If desired:

Age-related nutritional advice adds value if you want to be sure your horse is offered a balanced diet that provides all the necessary nutrients at all stages of life.

Young horses in growth especially need the right ratio of building blocks that support in physical development and strengthen the immune system.

For senior horses, it is especially important to ensure that they take in enough nutrients to maintain their weight and condition. In doing so, we must take into account any age-related condition. For example, muscle loss in senior horses is very often confused with weight loss. A BCS can then be very useful as a guide.

Reproduction-related Nutrition Advice

Reproduction
-related Nutrition Advice

Weight affects not only the mare's fertility but also the stallion's sperm quality. And what many horse owners don't know is that some ingredients that are nevertheless often found in commercial feeds also affect fertility.

Inadequate nutrition of pregnant mares can lead to developmental disorders. Consider Developmental Orthopedic Disease, a collective term for a cluster of orthopedic disorders in the growing foal.

Research has shown that the bacterial diversity of foals as young as 1 month old, determines the lifetime health of the horse.

So all the reasons to support stallions, broodmares and pregnant and lactating mares with the right nutrition.

Nutrition Rehabilitation

The treatment and recovery of some conditions require intensive effort on the part of the horse owner and caregiver.

Dividing a daily ration into small portions offered to the horse around the clock every two to four hours may sometimes be necessary in certain cases of gastroparesis and colic, for example.

Even though this is only a temporary measure for most conditions, such a nutritional regimen is not feasible for everyone.

Equi Nutri Care supports the horse owner and caretaker in this in various ways. Ranging from admission of the horse for the period of rehabilitation to ad interim care of the horse during the periods when the owner or caregiver cannot be available.

We also both offer nutrition training to guide the horse to a normal feeding schedule or one that is feasible for the owner and caregiver.

Weighing session

Annual weighing session with mobile horse scale, individual or group, with or without BCS, with or without feed advice

Weighing with our mobile horse scale, is the most accurate way to know how much your horse weighs.
This not only helps to feed the horse properly, but also says something about its overall health. In addition, it helps to dose medications and supplements correctly.

price:

1 horse: 25.00€.

Each additional horse: €10.00

Over 20 horses: Contact us for a quote