🌿 Comfort management.
🌿 Stabilises and deacidifies the hindgut.
🌿 Purges toxic overload in the large intestine
🌿 Detoxification organs - liver, kidneys - function.
🌿 Fortifying with forage-balanced nutrients.
🌿 Enhances immune function, metabolism, and glutathione production (the body's natural master antixodant).
This is a nutritional, functional food supplement and not veterinary medicine. For more information, refer to Dr Kellon's Horse Sense - Nutrition is not 'Alternative' Therapy .
*For the latest research, updates, and insights, see our main Mallenders page (Advice Centre/A-Z Equine Condition)
Mallenders, often seen as crusty or flaky skin on a horse's legs, is more than just a surface issue - it’s a sign of an underlying detoxification imbalance, very much aligned with the condition Cryptopyrroluria, aka KPU. Emerging science suggests that mallenders is linked to a compromised liver detox system, where the body uses the skin as an emergency pathway to excrete toxins. This process pulls dead skin cells - naturally rich in keratin - to the surface, resulting in the characteristic crusts or flakes.
Our Mallenders Regeneration Programme works to address the root cause of this condition by supporting the liver’s detox pathways and restoring gut health. This natural approach allows the liver and gut to function optimally, reducing the need for toxin excretion through the skin.
With a focus on holistic, science-backed care, this 2-month programme is designed to repair the gut-liver connection and give your horse the tools it needs to support from within.
*Note:
this programme starts with a 1-month regenerative hindgut stabiliser, followed by detoxing and tonifying the detoxification organs - liver and kidneys.
Thereafter, it's a straightforward maintenance programme of feeding activated vitamin B6 (P5P) for at least 1-year, together with a liver/kidneys detox at each coat change time.
Be aware that depending on the degree of metabolic disruption, the long-term regeneration can take up to 2-years for some horses.
First up, we start alleviating the discomfort with DuoBute
pain and anti-inflammatory support, formulated to be very gentle on the fragile gut mucosa. Also start introducing the trial bag of VitaComplete
forage-balanced nutrients into the diet.
Once your horse has had a couple of days on the DuoBute and VitaComplete, now we start the detox.
Feed the KPUCOMBO
in an a.m. feed for 1-month then assess; we need to see how your horse's gut functions without the gut stabiliser. Depending on the level of historic gut issues, it may be that a 2nd month's course of the KPUCOMBO will need to be fed.
- KPUCOMBO
- A blend of EquiNatural's SiboCARE
, GutAminos
, P5P
(Activated B6), B12-Balance
& Spirulina
, combined together as a 5-in-1 combined feed supplement for convenience.
- LKLCARE - Once the 1-month gut programme is finished, we now detox and tone your horse's detoxification organs - liver, kidneys, lymph nodes..
The focus now is on maintaining your horse's health long-term. By feeding tonifying supplements to support a balanced gut microbiome, alongside a diet rich in healthy, natural nutrition, you'll be giving your horse the best chance to thrive.
Have a look at our suggestions below - we're not saying to feed them all- just go with what feels right for you. Metabolic health is a sliding scale, influenced by daily choices that compound over time. Each decision - big or small - helps tip the scales in your horse's favour, ensuring lasting wellness and vitality.
Top Tip- If your horse is a fussy eater, start slow! A pinch of each at a time and slowly build up.
Supplements of any kind should be fed with caution to the pregnant or nursing mare so always seek veterinary advice.
Any information contained within
is not intended to replace veterinary or other professional advice.
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Hygiene Regulation (183/2005), Registration No. GB280/4203
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ational standard that ensures we meet
food safety standards)
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Registered in England. Company
Number 11075894, Reg'd Office: Unit 4 Rookery Farm, Radstock BA3 4UL
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