Why Choose Bioplex Zinc for Horses?
Zinc for horses is a critical trace mineral that plays a crucial role in numerous bodily functions, including protein synthesis, skin health, immune function, and bone development. Our Bioplex Zinc for Horses offers a highly absorbable source of zinc, providing 20% elemental zinc without fillers or additives.
Zinc deficiency in horses is common, particularly when forage levels are low, or when other minerals like iron or manganese block its absorption. Supplementing with Bioplex Zinc ensures your horse gets the zinc it needs for optimal health, growth, and performance.
Key Benefits:
- Highly absorbable zinc: The organic form of zinc proteinate for maximum absorption and effectiveness.
- Supports coat and skin health: Helps prevent bleaching of the coat and improves overall skin function.
- Promotes healthy hooves: Essential for the development of strong, healthy hooves and prevents hoof issues like cracks, abscesses, and laminitis.
- Supports the immune system: Zinc is crucial for maintaining a strong and functioning immune system.
- Supports bone health: Zinc is essential for bone building and remodelling, vital for maintaining skeletal integrity.
- Essential for pigmentation: Supports melanin production, preventing discolouration and bleaching of the coat.
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What is Zinc for Horses?
Zinc is an essential trace mineral that plays a major role in various metabolic functions within the horse’s body. It supports immune function, protein synthesis, skin health, bone remodelling, and insulin regulation. Zinc is crucial for connective tissue health, and is necessary for the formation of melanin, the pigment that gives the coat, mane, and tail their colour.
Zinc is often deficient in forage and can be blocked by high iron levels, as well as other minerals like manganese. Supplementation is often necessary to correct these deficiencies and maintain your horse’s health.
How Much Zinc Should I Feed My Horse?
Zinc supplementation needs vary depending on factors such as your horse’s age, activity level, and the levels of zinc in the forage.
- Lactating mares, young horses, older horses, and horses in moderate to heavy work often require higher zinc levels.
- For a 500kg horse, feed 1 x 5ml scoop per day, providing 760mg of elemental zinc (approx. 3.8g of Bioplex Zinc).
If you’re unsure about your horse’s specific zinc requirements, it’s advisable to contact us for personalized feeding advice or consider forage analysis to determine the exact mineral needs.
Product Features:
- Highly absorbable zinc: Zinc proteinate ensures maximum absorption for effective supplementation.
- Promotes coat and skin health: Prevents coating bleaching and improves skin health.
- Supports strong hooves: Zinc helps with hoof integrity, preventing cracks, abscesses, and other hoof problems.
- Boosts immune system: Essential for a strong and healthy immune system.
- Supports bone health and muscle recovery: Vital for bone remodelling and recovery.
- Essential for melanin production: Supports healthy pigment formation, preventing colour loss in the coat.
Ingredients:
- 100% Bioplex Zinc (zinc proteinate) – 20% elemental zinc (approx. 3.8 grams)
- An organic source of zinc, bound to amino acids to maximise absorption and effectiveness.
Feeding Guidelines:
- For a 500kg horse, feed 1 x 5ml scoop per day, providing 760mg of elemental zinc.
- Young, pregnant, lactating mares and horses in moderate to heavy work may require higher zinc levels.
If you’re unsure about the correct feeding rate, feel free to contact us for expert guidance.
How Long Does It Last?
- 1kg pouch: If feeding 1 x 5ml scoop per day, this pouch will last approximately 333 days for a 500kg horse.
Delivery & Returns:
- Free UK shipping on orders over £80*
- 60-day returns on unopened items
- Same-day dispatch for orders placed before 1pm*
Shop Forageplus Bioplex Zinc for Horses today and ensure your horse receives the optimal levels of zinc for coat health, hoof integrity, and overall vitality.
Contact us for further advice or to receive personalised recommendations based on your horse’s needs!
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Also, check out our bioplex copper (proteinate) for horses
Forageplus does not advise the feeding of separate minerals unless levels have been checked by carrying out a forage analysis.
The ratios of minerals are important and feeding one mineral without supplementing correct levels of another can be detrimental to horse health. If you are uncertain of mineral levels then feeding either a Forageplus Equine Balancer or carrying out analysis of forage is wise.
Find out why ratios of minerals fed are so important at Forageplus Talk.
Contact us if you have questions you want to be answered we are always pleased to help.
Audrey-Ann Bérubé-Boivin (verified owner) –
The only zinc supplement available without any fillers! I highly trust the quality of forage plus supplements and their nutrition advices!
Laurence PERCEVAL (verified owner) –
For the past 3 years our Hay Analysis was showing much too high levels of Iron…Our nutritionist advised adding Zinc and Copper to our feed and it is very well accepted by all our horses in the feed. Fighting the iron excess had become a true issue for our older PPID horses as well as MSE tendancies ones. Thnak you for making it available and palatable and digestible.
[email protected] (verified owner) –
Great service
J Docherty (verified owner) –
I add this into regular feeds, all horses eat it no bother
Joanmo (verified owner) –
Excellent product some shine off the cot after this
Johanna Selter –
This Zinc can be easely given in the right amount. In my country Sweden we don’t have elemental zinc as a supplement. Now I can give the horses exactly what they need in stead of zinc mixed with stuff they don’t need. I appreciate it so much that Forageplus have elemental minerals, which can be easely given to the horses.
Kelly Elliott (verified owner) –
Super important supplement for the horses with a diet high in iron particularly when zinc is often low in forage already, thank you to forage plus again for educating me on when zinc supplementation is and isn’t needed.
hrbacchini (verified owner) –
Great quality zinc supplement, works well with the copper supplement from Forageplus.
hrbacchini (verified owner) –
Great quality zinc supplement, works well with the copper supplement from Forageplus.
Michelle King (verified owner) –
Top quality supplement. Improvement in hooves is visible.
Michelle King (verified owner) –
Top quality supplement. Improvement in hooves is visible.
Ingela Holmqvist (verified owner) –
A great product and really worth its price (because you only need to feed a few grams a day) even with the added cost of shipping to Sweden.
Juliabrant (verified owner) –
High quality additional supplement as recommended by analysis of forage.
Ingela Holmqvist (verified owner) –
A great product and really worth its price (because you only need to feed a few grams a day) even with the added cost of shipping to Sweden.
Lovisa Ivarsson (verified owner) –
This product makes my horses skin, mane and hoof work amazing. Zero health issues with all of Forageplus supplements 💚💚
Juliabrant (verified owner) –
High quality additional supplement as recommended by analysis of forage.
Lovisa Ivarsson (verified owner) –
This product makes my horses skin, mane and hoof work amazing. Zero health issues with all of Forageplus supplements 💚💚
antonia –
Having had my own grass analysed for the first time I, like most people, need zinc among other minerals. At last I can feed my horses knowing their mineral requirements are fully met 🙂