Pegasus Health Seaweed

Pegasus Health

Seaweed is one of the richest sources of essential amino acids, vitamins and minerals on the planet. The combination of nutrients it contains work together to balance your horse’s diet - but importantly it ALSO enables your horse to make the best possible use of the nutritional goodness in the rest of its diet.
 
The Seaweed for horses sourced by Pegasus Health is harvested from the pure clean waters of the Outer Hebrides and handled, stored and processed with the greatest care to ensure it is never contaminated at any stage between growing in the sea and reaching you, the customer.
 
We are confident that this is the very highest-quality, organic Seaweed for horses with nothing added and nothing taken away. Read more about the origins of our Seaweed for horses on the ‘Did You Know?’ tab.
 
Seaweed improves a horse’s ability to deal with stress and boosts its natural immunity against illness in a totally safe way.

Seaweed for horses helps improve joint mobility and is a useful supplement for horses with arthritic or rheumatic conditions. It will give horses a glossy, shiny coat and healthy, strong hooves.

Users have also reported improvements in fertility and general temperament and reductions in the effects of conditions such as ringworm - because of the positive impact that seaweed has on the immune system. Seaweed is 100% vegetable matter and therefore it is easy for horses to digest and can be fed to horses of any age.

Seaweed for horses contains:

• Calcium
• Concentrated proteins
• Healthy carbohydrates
• More than 60 minerals including Iron, Magnesium and Sodium
• Vitamins including A, B1, C, E and K
• Twenty amino acids - including all the Essential Amino Acids

Feed to:

• Help improve joint mobility
• Help improve temperament
• Boost immunity
• Help develop a shiny coat and healthy, strong hooves
• Develop greater stamina
• Stimulate an underactive thyroid

100% Seaweed Meal grown and sustainably harvested on the remote shores of The Outer Hebrides. Guaranteed free of heavy metal contamination.

**The Continental Shelf around The Outer Hebrides stunning coastline is a mixing zone for nutrients welling up from the depths of the Atlantic. As one of the most productive corners of the global ocean, seaweeds thrive in the cool, clean, clear waters**

	per 1 kilo
Boron	50mg
Calcium	35.5g
Cobalt	5mg
Copper	7mg
Iron	713mg
Iodine	835mg
Magnesium	880mg
Manganese	164mg
Phosphorus	1.2g
Potassium	26.78g
Selenium	1.0mg
Sulphur	29.6g
Zinc	51mg

Do NOT feed ad lib to horses and ponies:

• At work, in training, stress periods: 120 - 150 grams/head/day
• Mares serving / in foal*: 100 - 120 grams/head/day
• Lactating: 120 - 150 grams/head/day
• Stallions at stud: 120 - 180 grams/head/day
• Ponies: ⅔ of the recommended rate for horses

*Do NOT feed to mares in foal if supplementary feeds already contain iodine

The ocean is a rich source of every mineral and nutrient needed for good health. The benefits of feeding high-quality, organic seaweed from pollution-free seas to animals - including horses - have become well-known in recent years.

Pegasus Health sources its seaweed meal from a top-quality supplier in The Outer Hebrides. Seaweeds thrive in the pure, cool, clean, clear waters there and benefit from the nutrients that mix in to those waters from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean.
 
Our supplier harvests seaweed as a living, breathing, green seaweed plant and uplifts it directly from the sea. Some seaweed suppliers land their seaweed on beaches where it can be tainted and contaminated by sand, ash and bacteria. Our seaweed never touches the beaches.
 
Our supplier’s processing methods, supported by stringent quality control procedures, see the seaweed given a fresh water wash before being ground once. Indirect heat is then applied which gently dries the seaweed but also ensures that none of the valuable amino acid or vitamin content is damaged. Other seaweeds are heated directly which destroys valuable nutrients.
 
The seaweed is then ground and sieved again. It is guaranteed dust-free and handled in a human food grade factory where it meets the Organic standards of the UK, Europe and the USA.

Seaweed for horses contains every vitamin, mineral and amino acid that your horse, or pony, needs for optimum health. It can compensate for any deficiencies in trace elements which may occur in a normal diet. This is no doubt why seaweed has been fed as an equine supplement in Scotland, Ireland and Norway since at least the 5th century.

Seaweed for horses stores some of its vitamins - including Vitamin A - better than dried grasses.
 
Among the many other vitamins that seaweed contains is B12, which is essential for growth but is not commonly found in other vegetable matter available to horses.

Animals that have access to the shore will feed on growing seaweeds showing a natural instinct for a food that will benefit them.



Seaweed for horses contains a wide variety of concentrated protein and healthy carbohydrates while also being low in fat and calories.



Amino acids are the building blocks for protein and Seaweed for horses contains 20 different amino acids, including all the essential amino acids that a horse needs but cannot produce within its own body.
 
Owners of horses fed our Seaweed for horses report improvements in the temperament - with their horses and ponies becoming calmer and happier.
 
Performance and sports horses are reported to develop more stamina and stronger resistance to illness through improved immunity after being fed Seaweed for horses.
 
The many benefits of feeding Seaweed for horses come from its doubles benefits - the perfectly optimised nutritional content of the seaweed ensures that your horse gets EVERY nutrient it requires, but the seaweed ALSO enables your horse to extract all the goodness from the rest of its diet as efficiently as possible as well.
 
More than 60 minerals can be found in seaweed for horses including Calcium, Chlorine, Potassium, Nitrogen, Sodium, Phosphorous, Sulphur, Chromium, Cobalt, Copper, Iron, Magnesium, Manganese, Selenium and Zinc.
 
The vitamin E content of seaweed helps the fertility and reproductive performance of horses, but seaweed as a supplement is not recommended for pregnant mares if they are already receiving supplementary feeds that are enriched with iodine.

The iodine content of Seaweed for horses will stimulate an underactive thyroid gland. Iodine is a specialist mineral. It is essential for the synthesis of thyroid hormones to keep the horse's metabolism stable.



The horse's estimated daily requirement of iodine is just 0.1 part per million*(ppm), or 1-2 mg per 500kg horse per day, and it is possible for horses to be iodine-deficient on a normal diet.



Most horse feeds contain between 0.05 and 0.2 ppm (dry matter) of iodine, but some can contain as much as 2 ppm, depending on the soils in which the feed was grown.



If in doubt please consult your vet about appropriate nutritional supplementation.



*One part per million (ppm). This is equivalent to one drop of water diluted into 50 litres.