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Success Stories

Breeding Stallions

While we were seriously looking for something to help with the mare problems, we hadn’t given the stallions a thought. Much to our awe we found that Hoffman’s Horse Mineral had some really good effects on the stallions also.

Our senior stallion, Skip Zan Parr, was breeding a lot of mares, so we needed to collect semen from him to get the breeding all done. He habitually gave us from fifty to eighty c.c’s of semen at a collection, but after he had been on our mineral for the winter, the first collection he gave us one hundred and fifty c.c.’s of semen. And while the volume didn’t stay that high, it did range much higher, from one hundred and fifteen c.c’s to one hundred and forty. When we checked it under the microscope, the density, motility and longevity were all up. The vet told us that if another vet looked into the microscope, he would think he was looking at the semen of a four year old.

One of our customers who feeds Hoffman’s Horse Mineral to his stallion told us that last spring he collected semen to send to California on a Thursday morning. On Monday evening about eleven- thirty P.M. he got a call from the man who was receiving the semen. His vet was there as they were breeding, and this man opened the conversation by asking what the hang (or something like that) was the stallion owner doing with his stallion. Rather alarmed the stallion owner asked if something was wrong. The mare owner then told him the semen got held at the border and they had just received it on Monday evening, plus the mare was out of heat. They decided for some reason to look at the semen under the microscope, and this was where they got very interested. There was still 20% motility and had they had a mare to breed , they may have still got her in foal. The vet said he had never seen anything like that before. From Thursday morning to Monday evening is basically five days!

Calming Effects

Trainers tell us that they feel our mineral helps to level their horses out. They are easier to handle and can therefore be taught more in less time.

This would seem to be supported by a couple of other stories we have heard. One man had a stallion who would challenge him when he went into the pen. After putting him on Hoffman’s Mineral , he soon noticed a change and can now go into the pen and put the halter on with no problem. The other story concerns a mare boarding at a stable and was a very nervous animal . Much to the stable manager’s delight, she calmed down after a stint on mineral.

Conditioning

Everyone loves the look of their horses after they have been on Hoffman’s Horse Mineral for a few weeks. Their coats begin to glow and continue to do so over the whole summer. When we dispersed our stallions ,we set the sale date for the 24th of August thinking that we would have about a month after breeding season . As it turned out, breeding season ran right up to the sale and we had precious little time to spend on the horses. However, after the sale, we had several calls from people wanting to know how we conditioned our horses for the sale as they loved the way they looked. The truth is, we didn’t condition them at all. It was just the way they looked after being on Hoffman’s Horse Mineral.

A man that we met at one of the trade shows( a definite cowboy type) told us that after his horse had been on our mineral for a few month’s, his neighbor started teasing him and telling him he was going soft. When the man asked him why he was so accusing him, he said,” Well, the first cold night you get, you now put your horse in the barn. That’s babying him.” This man said that he had quite a time convincing him that his horse had spent no nights in the barn. He had a good thick coat, but it was short and shone very nicely.

Foals often get dry moth eaten looking hair toward the end of July, but when they are on Hoffman’s Horse Mineral, their coats stay nice and shiny. You can still see them changing from their baby hair, but it stays in good condition.

When we were showing Skip Zan Parr, we needed to put a summer sheet on him if we turned him out in the day time. His coat was the color of a new penny and would bleach very easily in the sun and turn up on the ends and get fuzzy. By the time we got our mineral, we weren’t showing him any more, so he was outside all the time. We started feeding our mineral in late February and when Zan shed out, his coat was glowing and continued to do so all summer. He never had a bad hair day again.

I would never again try to show horses without having them on our mineral. The job of getting them ready to show is so much easier when they are already half-way there.

Cribbing

The results from using our mineral, that we hear of, never cease to amaze us. We have had two or three people tell us that their horses stopped eating their fences when they started feeding Hoffman’s Horse Mineral. While we feel that this may work if the horse is lacking certain nutrients, we aren’t nearly so confident about a horse that is just plain bored.

Dirt Eating

Horses will eat dirt if they are looking for things to fortify their system and can’t find it any other way. When they have access to our mineral, it can go a long way towards preventing this behavior.

Ears

We used to have a problem, when we were showing horses, with them getting little white bumps in their ears. These bumps made their ears sore, and consequently they were touchy about bridling and so on. We used to treat them with a salve, but it didn’t do a whole lot of good. It was an annoying problem to say the least. We have never had them occur since we started using our mineral. We feel this isn’t just a coincidence.

Eating The Mineral

Our experience has been that about three or four horses out of a hundred will be picky about eating Hoffman’s Horse Mineral, but we personally have never had a horse that we couldn’t get to eat it. The last year that we bred mares, we had 132 mares come in, and out of that number there were four that didn’t want to eat it at first. .It took up to a week to get them off and eating. One stallion that we had took three weeks to get started .That was the longest time that we experienced. With him, we just kept putting it in his feed and eventually he decided it was O.K. Usually if you start with a very small amount the horse will accept it. (Most horses will eat it right out of the mineral bucket).

One funny story that I must tell. A friend of ours called one day with desperation in his voice and wanted to know if there was some way we could get some mineral to him in a hurry. (This was in the days when people picked it up at our place) We asked him what the rush was, and he told us that the mares had run out and were now eating up his wooden troughs trying to get the mineral that had fallen in the cracks.

Other tricks that might be tried to entice a horse to eat it, are to spray the grain with water so that the mineral adheres to the grain and the horse can’t sift it to the bottom of the container, or add something that they like, such as molasses. One woman who really wanted her stallion to eat it tried all of these tricks to no avail. Then for some reason (I would have never thought of this) she tied a bucket in his stall and put just mineral in the bucket. She said she couldn’t believe her eyes . When she looked in the bucket he had eaten it all. Apparently he just didn’t want the taste of his grain tampered with.

When Hoffman’s Horse Mineral is being fed free choice, a horses’ consumption will go up and down. At some points he may eat quite a lot and at others nothing. This isn’t a problem as they will eat as they need to, to balance the nutrient intake with what is in their feed. That is one of the advantages of feeding the mineral free choice. The horse has different needs at different times of the year and is free to meet those changes in the amount needed whether it goes up or down.