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Post by solomon on Jul 22, 2011 22:14:21 GMT
Bought some to feed to Pete, anyone know how much to give?
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Post by scattymare on Jul 23, 2011 8:13:15 GMT
No idea I'm afraid. What does it do?
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haffyfan
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Post by haffyfan on Jul 23, 2011 12:44:08 GMT
It's something in the ginger family I think Scatty...hasn't it got healing properties?
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Post by solomon on Jul 23, 2011 18:25:29 GMT
It is anti inflammatory. For joints really.
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Post by yann on Jul 23, 2011 18:31:14 GMT
It contains a strong natural anti inflammatory and anti oxidant called curcumin which means it's good for stiff and arthritic horses, and has been shown to be genuinely effective in experiments on arthritic rats (nice...). Apart from being cheap in the form of turmeric the other benefit is that it doesn't appear to cause any side effects and most horses find it pretty palatable. I feed two 15ml / 1 tablesthingy supplement scoops per day which for a 500kg horse is at around the same concentration by bodyweight that was found to be effective with the poor old rats. I'm still able to manage Rio without a daily bute, and that can only be down to what the turmeric does for her.
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Post by solomon on Jul 23, 2011 19:56:26 GMT
Thanks Yann glad I asked. Glad it helps your girlie too.
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Post by spotti on Jul 23, 2011 20:12:12 GMT
Turmeric, as in the yellow stuff you cook with? I never knew it could do such things! I'm impressed
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Post by solomon on Jul 23, 2011 20:31:13 GMT
Yup that's the stuff.
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Post by scattymare on Jul 24, 2011 18:43:27 GMT
Interesting. Is it cheap to buy?
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Post by solomon on Jul 24, 2011 20:02:44 GMT
£5 for a kilo.
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Post by frankiesmum on Aug 1, 2011 18:25:42 GMT
i feed tumeric too but i was told to only give a small amount, i give about half a teasthingy a day, am now wondering if this is too little. annax
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