Dosage chart - Supreme Minerals

Supreme Minerals is pure vitamins and minerals with no flavouring and no fillers. Even a few grams make the difference between requirements met and not met, so the dose is small and follows your horse's weight and workload.

Maintenance and light work: 15‑20 g per 100 kg of horse per day. So a 500 kg horse gets 75‑100 g.

If you don't have a forage analysis, go for the high end, for light work 20 g per 100 kg. That way your horse is safely covered for trace minerals.

Grams per 100 kg of horse per day

SituationDaily amount
Maintenance and light work15‑20 g
Moderate work, in-foal mare, senior 15+20 g
Intensive work, lactation 1‑3 months20‑35 g

The figures are dry weight. 500 kg horse: multiply by 5. 300 kg pony: multiply by 3.

No forage analysis?

  • Use the high end of the range, i.e. Ekstra level
  • If you have an analysis and the figures are at the right level, you can use the low end
  • If the forage is low in iron, stay at the high end
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Mineral values that allow Normal dosing

If your forage analysis is roughly here, you can safely use the normal dose of Supreme Minerals, Every Day Happy or Peak Performance: copper 4‑5 mg/kg, zinc 20‑22 mg/kg, manganese 40‑50 mg/kg, iron 100‑110 mg/kg.

Horses only absorb 10‑15% of the iron in forage, and many analyses show low levels. If your forage is particularly low in iron, we recommend Ekstra to Maksimal.

Normal, Ekstra and Maksimal: what do they mean?

Normal is for sound, healthy horses fed quality forage, i.e. grass, hay or haylage.

Ekstra is for horses under strain from things other than weight and workload: physical or mental health challenges, stress, or forage that doesn't meet the recommendations. Also used as a booster for 8‑16 weeks.

Maximum is for heavy strain: convalescence after illness, weakened digestion and immune system, long-distance transport. Can be used as a booster for 4‑12 weeks.

During special periods such as moulting, competitions or stress, requirements can rise by 50‑60 % in total, for anything from a few days to 4‑6 weeks.

How to work out your horse's workload

Light work and turnout: 20 min walk, 10 min trot, 10 min canter, 0:40 in total per session, 1‑6 times a week.

Moderate work: 30 min walk, 20 min trot, 35 min canter, 1:15 in total per session, 4‑6 times a week.

Hard work: 40 min walk, 35 min trot, 50 min canter and 15 min gallop, 2:30 in total per session, 2‑3 times a week.

If rider and tack weigh more than 20% of the horse's weight, the requirement increases. The optimal ratio is 1:5. Always feed according to the horse's current weight, not its ideal weight. Weight formula: girth in metres cubed, times 80. A girth of 1.7 m gives approx. 392 kg.

Stallions, in-foal and lactating mares, foals and youngstock

Stallions need at least 10 % more than the chart states to be covered. We recommend feeding them at Ekstra for their workload.

In-foal mares are fed according to workload up to and including month 8. From month 9 to 11, they are fed like a horse in moderate work.

After foaling the mare is fed as for demanding work for the first 3 months, because she is producing milk. After that, as for moderate work until the foal is weaned. If she is both in foal and lactating, she is fed as for demanding work for the whole period she is producing milk.

Foals from approx. 2 to 5 months: 0.5 grams of Supreme Minerals per day per kg the foal weighs. Foals from 6 months and young horses are fed according to their expected adult weight at the level for light work and turnout.

Remember salt every day

Horses have no salt reserves and need salt every day alongside the daily dose. Salt keeps muscles, nerves and fluid balance in order.

Give 13 g per 100 kg of horse per day for maintenance. For a 500 kg horse that is 65 g. For moderate work, the total salt requirement is 18-20 g and for demanding work 25-30 g per 100 kg. Heat, pregnancy and lactation also increase the requirement.

A salt lick isn't enough on its own. Give loose salt in the manger, and start with half a teaspoon, building up over 14 days.