SPILLERS Hoof Health 3kg – High Biotin Supplement for Hoof Growth

SPILLERS Hoof Health – 3kg

Hoof Health is a pelleted biotin supplement fed at 50g or 100g a day, so the 3kg tub is 30 days for a horse. Biotin sits at 60mg per 100g, which is a genuinely high dose — the level published research uses is 15–20mg a day for an average horse, and this reaches that at the pony rate.

Biotin alone is not the whole story, which is why the tub also carries methionine at 3g and lysine at 2g per 100g, MSM at 2.5g as a sulphur source, and zinc and copper at 300mg and 80mg. Horn is keratin, keratin is a sulphur-linked protein, and the amino acids and trace minerals are as much a part of building it as the biotin is.

Performance & Benefits

• Biotin at 60mg per 100g — higher than most hoof supplements on the shelf.
• Methionine 3g and lysine 2g per 100g, the amino acids horn is built from.
• MSM at 2.5g per 100g, supplying sulphur for keratin formation.
• Zinc 300mg and copper 80mg per 100g.
• Dried hawthorn 4g and rosehips 3g per 100g.
• Pelleted with mint through it, which helps with horses that refuse powders.

Suitable For

• Horses with brittle, cracked or crumbling horn.
• Horses with slow hoof growth or that struggle to hold shoes.
• Thin soles and weak white line, alongside your farrier's plan.
• Long-term daily feeding — hoof grows about a centimetre a month, so a full replacement takes most of a year.
• Not a joint or coat supplement — Spillers Flex covers joints and Spillers Alfalfa-Pro Fibre puts oil into the diet for coat.

Feeding

• Horses and ponies up to 450kg: 50g daily, one level scoop.
• Horses over 450kg: 100g daily, two level scoops.
• Mix into the existing feed and introduce over several days.
• Expect to feed for six months before new growth reaching the ground tells you anything.
• Clean fresh water at all times.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: wheatfeed, grass high temperature dried, lucerne (alfalfa), rapeseed oil, dried hawthorn, rosehips, methylsulfonylmethane (MSM), molasses, salt, dried mint leaf.
• Actives per 100g: biotin 60mg, methionine 3g, lysine 2g, MSM 2.5g, zinc 300mg, copper 80mg, hawthorn 4g, rosehips 3g.
• 3kg tub, pellet, approximately 50g per scoop, 30 days' supply for a horse.
• Spillers publish actives per 100g rather than a full proximate analysis, so no protein, oil or fibre figures are stated here.