SEA SALT (COARSE) - Soil Association Certified

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Salt is a critical nutrient that needs to be added into the equine diet for so many reasons.

Apart from keeping body fluids in balance and providing essential natural electrolytes (which play a key role in normal nerve/muscle/ kidney function - really important - and blood sodium levels), sodium is also needed to balance potassium levels, both in grass and in the body, and especially in hot weather. See the Details tab below for the full salt story.

We sell beautiful unrefined, unpolluted, coarse-nib sea salt, certified by the Soil Association, available in bulk at seriously good prices compared to the supermarkets.

Details

Sodium and chloride (salt) are the major electrolytes lost in sweat, followed by potassium, so we need to feed around 20-25g salt daily to cover a baseline requirement. If you prefer to feed an electrolyte supplement, make sure this amount of salt is included in the composition.

Salt also encourages a horse to drink water; obvious for summer hydration but for winter too, as horses drink far less water in winter so we need to help encourage them to do so.

However, the problem with blending salt into a mineral/vitamin mix is that salt attracts moisture - it's a natural dessicant (drying agent) so the risk is that it can denature much of the nutrient composition. This means that a mineral mix blended with fine salt may lose its essential structure, but also shorten the shelf-life. We therefore don't include salt in our EquiVita.

This is one reason why I prefer to add in coarse salt nibs; the other is that my connie, Murphy, hates the taste of salt so I have to sneak it in via coarse salt so there's no overwhelming taste of salt for him.


Composition & Feed Guide

100% pure unrefined coarse sea salt, certified under the approved product Soil Association scheme

  • Origin Red Sea.
  • Human Grade.
  • UK certificate of analysis available on request.

Feed Guide

  • 4g/100kg bodyweight per day, thus for an average 500kg horse add 20g daily to feed.
  • Feed double the RDA if in hard work/sweating.
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