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Supplementary levels of vitamins and minerals aim to improve the nutritional value of feeds by supplementing those elements which are likely to be absent or low in commonly used ingredients.

Complete Vitamin and Mineral Supplement is formulated to ensure that dietary deficiencies are corrected.

It contains high levels of Linseed meal for excellent coat conditioning.

A premium grade multi-vitamin & mineral feed supplement formulated specifically for pleasure horses.

The best balanced choice for pleasure horses, hacks, and show horses

Technical Issues Complete Vitamin and Mineral Supplement

Indications:

Irrespective of the quality of the feed ration or environment, the intake of essential dietary nutrients is likely to be deficient. Supplementation is essential for both,
(a) optimum growth, development and reproduction,
(b) to ensure maximum body function and athletic efficiency

Nutrient deficiencies occur as a result of adverse growing conditions, poor or depleted soils, the effects of sun and poor storage practices, and even processing of finished feeds.

Stabled horses are particularly prone to nutrient deficiencies (vitamins, minerals and trace elements), but paddocked, pregnant and growing animals are all highly susceptible, depending on pasture and feed quality, season, and environment. In addition, pleasure horses are not always fed the highly complex high energy diets fed to racing thoroughbreds, and they typically rely more on available pastures, hays and more basic diets where nutrient deficiencies affecting growth, development and performance can have devastating consequences.

Huge increases in daily requirements for essential nutrients imposed by hard work
Horses in training and competition require supplementation simply to meet the increased nutritional demands imposed by strenuous work, plus the increased need for tissue repair and maintenance.

If any essential nutrient is not available at the time it is required, all tissue repair, growth, energy production and performance cease until the essential nutrient is obtained. In the case of performance nutrition, prevention is better than cure.

Some essential nutrients required on a daily basis
The B group vitamins, for example, are water soluble and not stored in the body. They must be taken in on a daily basis. If any of the B group vitamins are deficient then energy production processes will suffer significantly – a common cause of poor performance.

Other essential nutrients are critical components of structure and function
Vitamin A is essential for all growth processes, including normal vision, bone remodelling in growing horses, tendon strength, mucous membrane integrity. Vitamin A is not manufactured by the horse – it must come from the diet. Also involved in formation of antibodies and disease resistance. Maintains reproductive performance.

Vitamin D deficiency can occur in horses stabled for long periods with little or no natural sunlight. A deficiency depresses calcium and phosphorus uptake, leading to stiffness, lameness, weak bones and swollen joints. Involved in prevention of rickets (young horses) and osteomalacia (older horses).

Vitamin E is a potent natural antioxidant which preserves cell membranes and protects cells from free radical damage during work. It is also essential to optimum fertility and breeding performance in mares and stallions. Helps prevent and treat Tying Up. Improves fat metabolism when horses are fed high fat diets.

Vitamin B1 is critically involved in carbohydrate metabolism to produce energy. Heavy sweating and work increase the demands for Vitamin B1. Required on a daily basis. Essential for normal muscle and nerve function. Helps maintain appetite.

Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) is also critical for energy production from carbohydrates, growth, and efficient feed utilisation. Required on a daily basis. Maintains integrity of skin & mucous membranes.

Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), in association with niacin, is critical for energy production and blood cell formation. Required on a daily basis, and often deficient in feeds. Required for normal nerve function.

Vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin) is involved in protein, carbohydrate and fat metabolism, as well as working in conjunction with folic acid to maintain red blood cell production. Vitamin B12 contains the essential mineral cobalt.

Niacin is another water soluble B group vitamin required on a daily basis and used in metabolism of fats, carbohydrates and amino acids, as well as red blood cell formation.

Pantothenic acid is a B group vitamin involved in carbohydrate, proteins and fat conversion into energy. Cereal grains are deficient in this vitamin, so it is essential when horses are fed high grain diets. Essential to reproduction and normal nerve function. Improves skin & hair coat condition.
Choline is a B group vitamin essential in building and maintaining cell structures and in nerve impulse transmission. It is also critical to normal liver function and in fat metabolism for energy.

Inositol helps in fat metabolism and nerve transmission.

Copper is essential for bone development, haemoglobin formation in red blood cells, joint cartilage maintenance, connective tissue repair and the uptake and utilisation of iron. Mare’s milk is low in copper and abnormal bone development can occur in deficient foals. Maintains coat colour, maintains fertility and helps prevent skeletal growth disorders (DOD).

Zinc is a mineral essential for normal bone, cartilage and hoof development, wound healing, skin health and function, minimises the incidence of DOD disorders in young growing horses.

Iodine can be deficient in late pregnant mares, and foals are either born dead or too weak to stand and suckle. Is a component of thyroid hormones which regulate a wide variety of metabolic processes.

Cobalt is critical for the formation of the oxygen carrying component of red blood cells (haemoglobin), and is an essential component of Vitamin B12. Deficiency results in anaemia.

Sodium & Chloride are essential in maintaining normal fluid balance through their action as major electrolytes. Prevent dehydration, and essential to maintain normal muscle contraction, nerve function and digestion of nutrients. Sodium improves the palatability of feeds. Replaces salt lost in sweat.

Potassium is involved in many essential metabolic processes, including assisting the maintenance of fluid balance, utilisation of dietary nutrients, normal muscle and nerve function, energy metabolism and heart function.

Phosphorus is critically involved in energy metabolism, nerve function, bone formation and strengthening, muscle function, and in the buffering systems in blood and other body fluids.

Magnesium is an important mineral in many aspects of normal metabolism, including muscle function, bone formation, and reducing nervous behaviour in some horses.

Summary

Complete Vitamin and Mineral Supplement complements common pleasure horse diets by providing an adequate intake of the essential nutrients. Higher daily requirements for these essential nutrients are found in horses subjected to the physical stress of competition and training, especially under normal stable conditions where high grain diets are often fed, and access to fresh green feed can be limited, or when available pasture does not meet all nutrient requirements on a daily basis.

Supplementary vitamins and minerals are often required when absorption is impaired, as with diarrhoea or gastrointestinal upset, and certain liver conditions, while kidney conditions and lactation often cause increased vitamin excretion.

Exhaustive dietary evaluations conducted by Ranvet on a wide variety of equine performance diets both domestically and internationally, have confirmed that Complete Vitamin and Mineral Supplement is particularly appropriate, and successful, at providing, and balancing, the required levels of the common essential nutrients found to be lacking in the majority of pleasure horse diets. In conjunction with Ranvet Salkavite (electrolyte supplement), it is the most common nutritional additive used to successfully balance the majority of pleasure horse and show horse diets under evaluation in Ranvet trials.

Contains high levels of linseed meal for excellent coat conditioning.

Features: Benefits:

1. Supplies B group vitamins. Essential for energy conversion from carbohydrates, proteins and fats, especially in high grain/high energy diets

2. Supplies the essential minerals calcium. Ensures adequate bone development and
potassium, manganese, phosphorus and zinc strength, muscle and nerve function.

2. Supplies all essential nutrients commonly. Efficiently balances deficient diets,
deficient in most diets particularly high grain diets or poor pasture.

4. Safe for stallions, pregnant & lactating mares. Does not contravene racing rules. Non-toxic.
foals and training horses

5. Powder for distribution through food. Does not sift out. Easily mixed into food

6. High levels of linseed meal. Excellent coat conditioning

Pleasure horses often do not receive the complex, balanced diets received by racehorses in training, hence essential minerals may also be deficient, in addition to vitamins and trace elements.

Where Ranvet Aminovite Plus is specifically formulated for highly stressed, stabled racehorses and performance horses, Complete Vitamin and Mineral Supplement is specifically formulated to cater for the wider requirements of pleasure horses.

Functions of Vitamins and Minerals

VITAMIN A (Retinol)
Helps maintain normal vision. Necessary for normal bone growth & tooth development. Stimulates appetite. Maintains integrity of skin & mucous membranes. Involved in formation of antibodies & disease resistance. Improves reproductive performance.

VITAMIN D (Cholecalciferol)
Aids in absorption of calcium and phosphorus. Needed for growth and health of bones and teeth. Aids in the prevention of rickets (young animals) and osteomalacia (older animals)

VITAMIN E (Tocopherol)
A natural antioxidant. Reduces the formation of harmful free-radicals, thereby minimising damage to cells. Aids in the prevention of White muscle disease (stiff lamb disease). Acts in conjunction with selenium. Assists in the maintenance of reproductive function and immune response. Prevents and aids in the treatment
of "tying up". Improves metabolism of fat from high fat diets.

VITAMIN B1 (Thiamine)
Maintains general metabolism and maintenance of normal muscle and nerve function. Increases and assists in maintaining appetite. Used in the treatment and prevention of polio encephalomalacia resulting from vitamin Bi deficiency.

VITAMIN B2 (Riboflavin)
Required for general metabolism and growth. Maintains integrity of skin, mucous membranes and vision.

VITAMIN B6 (Pyridoxine)
Necessary for general metabolism, nervous system function and vision. Maintains integrity of skin. Facilitates red blood cells formation.

VITAMIN B12 (Riboflavin)
Necessary for general metabolism, nervous and reproductive function. Facilitates blood cells formation and improves hair coat condition.

PANTOTHENIC ACID
Plays a key role in energy metabolism, reproduction, growth and nerve function. Assists in transmission of nerve impulses. Improves health of skin and coat.

CHOLINE
Assists in metabolism of fats, and prevention of fatty livers. Maintains transmitting nerve impulses.

INOSITOL
Aids in the metabolism of fats and integrity of hair coat.

NIACIN (Nicotinamide)
Maintains general metabolism and red blood cell formation. Prevents pellagra associated with niacin deficiency. Improves appetite and growth rate, and maintains skin and hair coat condition. Reduces levels of blood cholesterol.

CALCIUM
Improves strength and development of bones and teeth. Assists in muscle contraction, cardiac regulation and nerve function. Maintains the normal clotting process of blood. Prevents osteomalacia and rickets. Increased requirement during lactation.

COBALT
Assists formation of 1312, and subsequent formation of red blood cells and haemoglobin.

COPPER
Facilitates absorption and mobilisation of iron. Assists formation of haemoglobin in red blood cells. Maintains general
metabolism, bone, cartilage and connective tissue development, skin condition and coat colour. Promotes fertility, prevents skeletal growth disorders.

IODINE
Component of thyroid hormones which regulates metabolic processes including hair growth Prevents goitre associated with iodine deficiency.

MAGNESIUM
Assists general metabolism and the formation of bones and teeth Maintains nervous function Reduces nervous behaviour in some horses. Relaxes nerve impulses.

POTASSIUM
Assists the digestion and utilisation of dietary nutrients. Aids in maintaining of tissue fluid balance and energy metabolism. Aids in muscular contraction, nerve function, and heart muscle relaxation.

PHOSPHORUS
Assists general metabolism and nerve function. Assists in formation of bones, muscles and teeth Improves buffering systems in blood and other body fluids.

SODIUM & CHLORIDE
Improves maintaining of correct electrolyte balance in body tissue: and prevents dehydration. Maintains muscle contraction nerve activity and digestion of nutrients. Improves the palatability of feedstuffs. Replaces salt lost in sweat.

ZINC
Improves growth rate, and metabolism, and prevents loss of appetite associated with deficiency. Assists in bone, cartilage development, and wound healing. Maintains the integrity of skin and mucous membranes, hair, and hooves. Prevents parakeratosis Minimises the incidence of metabolic bone disease.


DIRECTIONS FOR USE:

Mix Ranvet's Complete Vitamin and Mineral Supplement thoroughly through the feed.  A 30g measure is provided. It is recommended that the prescribed daily intake be spread over two feeds.

Recommended daily intake: