Benevit Advance Suppliment

[JoM]

Once again, I am asking the question after the horse has bolted (so to speak)

I have ordered today from Feedmark a tub of Benevit Advance. I just wondered if anyone else had used Benevit, or Benevit advance before and what they thought.

The price was really reasonable - £26.99 inc next day delivery for a 10kg tub which lasts about 4 months I think.
www.feedmark.com/show_product.asp?productid=103

Dancer is very scurfy at the moment. He is getting a lot of scabby skin patches on his legs and his chest. I think it is because he is on restricted grazing, and nothing extra really. He gets a scoop of competition cubes, seaweed, garlic, Soya oil and an apple. I have cut out his carrots completely as they are going like soggy mush as soon as you buy them.

I have tried him on Skratch, D Itch, and other skin mixes, but they dont seem to help. So I have decided that he must be lacking his vits and minerals.

Am I, once again, barking up the wrong tree do you think?! If it doesnt work, extra vits wont do any harm anyway, and I thought the price was good!

He will think all his birthdays have come at once as I am going to buy him a bag of cheap chop to mix it all together!!! He will only get a handful - but it will be a feast to him!! ;D

[SuzieP]

I use Benevit for Bea - can't think why I didn't mention it to you when we bumped into eachother at Rideaway this afternoon. Bea used to get quite scurfy in his mane and his coat was very poor come the end of winter - this year he's had Benevit all through since early Autumn and he's looking great - and no scurf!!

[mabel]

Whenever I feed a vit supplement in their feed I use benevit, and I think it's really good. I used to get the sacks of it so it worked out to be quite economical.

[JoM]

LOL Sue - you were withholding vital information!

I'm really glad that people have had some good results from it. Hopefully it will do the trick! At Rideaway it was £22.50 for the 5k tub and on the internet it was £26.99 for the 10kg tub.

Oh - and I came out of Rideaway empty handed! Didnt spend a penny! LOL I was quite disapointed in myself! LOL

[dalesponyrider]

WHAT self control! I'm impressed!

[DalesLady]

I'm impressed too Jo! It is very difficult to leave such an establishment with purse intact!

[SuzieP]

I'm impressed as well, Jo. You looked to be in good spending mode..... I managed to leave with what I'd gone in for, plus one other small(ish) item I'd been looking for for ages, so didn't really feel too guilty.

[lancslass]

does he itch jo?
it may well be something in his present diet that is not just doing for him and causing the scurfy skin and patches.

[zeldalithgow]

Talking of itchy ponies Prince has always been a very itchy chap - but I've just realised that he's not so bad now - he doesn't get garlic anymore. I'm sure I remember reading some where, maybe on here that garlic can cause them to be itchy - mind you he's still scurfy

[lancslass]

i have found that the colder the weather the more scurfy the coat. during winter when daniel was clipped we went thru a very cold snap. feeling behind daniels ears i was happy with the fact he was warm. i noticed his skin very scurfy the following few days, so gave a good brush and added another lightweight rug to the ones he had on........scurf problem solved! so, IMO, the scurf comes up more when the weather is cold and the ponies are adding more natural protection to keep themselves warm. the way the bloomin weather has been up to now, who can blame them for thinking they need another winter coat growing!

[dalesponyrider]

D is always worse in the winter but I thought that was because I wan't bathing her! That sounds a good hypothesis though Karen.

[greydales]

I also found mine were more scurfy at certain times - for example just before they were changing coat. Now none of them are scurfy! Although Saturn is stubbornly hanging onto this darn brown fluff when all the others have lovely sleek summer coats - typical as he's the one I will be showing

[JoM]

Yes Karen, he spends half his life scratching him mane off, face in his feathers, bending about to reach those hard to get to spots on 3 legs! LOL

I also read somewhere (possibly on the global herbs website) that garlic wasnt recommended for itchy ponies. I may knock that out of his diet for a few weeks and see if I notice a dfferance.

Its not the scuft that bothers me - he has little lumps and bumps on his back legs mainly. From top to bottom. Not noticable until you run your hands up them. I thought it may be mud fever, but it is too high up and, just doesnt quite fit the bill, if you know what I mean. I am currently spraying both his legs with hibiscrub, really rubbing it in and then topping off with a skin repair cream. However, I have since found another patch on his chest. These seem to have come about since he has been on restricted grazing. I have tried D-Itch (last year when this happened again!), didnt work, Skratch - no noticable improvement, and a couple of others I cant remember. So I thought lack of vits. The read up on the Benevit seems to fit his circumstances, so worth a shot.

By the way Feedmark - brilliant service. Ordered the stuff on Tues at about 3pm. Turned up with parcel force on Wed lunchtime. And that was free delivery too!!

[lancslass]

ok jo, i know i have mentioned this before [sorry] on another thread, but i would get rid of all the things you are feeding at the mo.........i knwo that sounds fdrastic, but there may be something in that diet he can't cope with. hes native at the end of the day and the competition cubes may be just too much for him. lose the oil, that can make them itch......living proof is in a stable on my yard......daniel!! never used seaweed, but i would also lose that too, not natural to a horses diet. try and get him on as natural diet as possible. i only feed daniel spillers hi fibre cubes, anything else and we have lumps galore on his quarters.
if the iching stops and skin improves, bumps go down, you can try reintroducing the things you feed now one at a time, you will then be able to pinpoint exactly what is causing the problems.
i read on another forum that rye grass in haylage caused lumps on a persons horse.

[jet]

Jodie had lumps on her shoulders for the last few years,never actually went away and after reading Karens post re feeding I stopped feeding Jodie a cereal based feed and just gave her a handful of Happy hoof and the lumps have gone! This is the first year for ages where her shoulders are clear.