Healthy Stable Limestone Flour – 3kg tub

Rich in calcium carbonate, limestone flour has been a staple in animal nutrition for hundreds of years. Calcium carbonate is one of the most talked about nutrients in equine nutrition and supplementation. This is because of the interaction of calcium and phosphorous Ca:P ratio, and how this interaction affects and controls the development of young horses/growing horses, and importantly the use of calcium in adult horses.

Enriching your horse's diet with a limestone supplement is a cheap and effective way of increasing calcium content in its diet, without compromising nutrition. This method of enriching diet with limestone supplementation is mostly used in enriching the milk content of pregnant mares, and has also been shown to increase calcium content in the bones of yearlings.

Calcium supplementation plays 3 vital roles in cellular function. Firstly, it is a key nutrient in controlling muscle contraction by activating potassium ion channels in cells. This is where the Ca:P ratio mentioned earlier comes into effect, and without this interaction, all muscle contractions including the heart would cease to function. Supplementing with additional calcium helps to ensure that your horse's musculoskeletal system is in prime working condition.

Secondly, calcium as a supplement helps act as a cell wall gate keeper, in the sense that it controls what nutrients enter and leave the cells through the cells semi-permeable membranes. Without this important supplement, the cell will lose it's osmotic potential, it's ionic balance and will cease to function.

Thirdly, Calcium regulates a host of enzymes in your horses body, ensuring that the horses hormonal balance is regulated. There are also a host of other key functions that calcium plays in the body like bone formation, density, and so forth, making it a very important supplement.

Calcium Deficiency

Calcium is stored in bones, and as you already know, your horse has vast amounts of bones. When calcium as a supplement is deficient in the body, the body starts to breakdown calcium in the bones, this causes poor/abnormal bones.

Calcium deficiency can lead to lameness in horses, metabolic bone disease (MBD) which is a basic term for numerous bones diseases like crooked long bones, enlarged bones, and brittle bones.

Key benefits of Calcium as a supplement.

• Helps to build bones
• Helps in muscle contraction
• Helps to regulate enzyme/hormonal in-balances
• Maintains bone density

Feeding recommendations.

1 scoop = 15g

500kg Horse 70g/day

Lactating mares 140g/day

* On average, 3kg container would take 21-42 days *.

**Please seek veterinary advice before embarking on any new supplementation regime for your horse. Supplements are designed to help certain ailments and are not designed to treat or cure any illnesses or diseases**

Storage conditions

Store at ambient temperatures, off the floor in a clean dry area away from direct sunlight and chemicals.

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