Seeing a pattern of deficiencies and imbalances in the diets I was developing led me to create Back2Basics ImmunoHoof and Muscle Up. These products are designed to fill nutritional gaps in horse diets across a broad spectrum of feeding regimes in South Africa.
Back2Basics Supplements provide the essential nutrients missing from your daily feed. Each supplement is designed to correct commonly found deficiencies and restore balance to your horse’s daily diet. Supplements such as GCJoint can be fed proactively to competitive and active horses to help protect joints as well as give some relief to horses mildly arthritic joints using high doses of easily absorbed ingredients.
We believe in the strength of simplicity. You won’t find long lists of ingredients you can’t pronounce or understand. Our products are made with key nutrients to ensure your horse has all it needs to build a strong nutritional foundation.
Our supplements are available in a variety of sizes to meet your horses’ needs.
Back2Basics ImmunoHoof
A blend of magnesium, zinc and copper, three of the minerals most commonly deficient in horse rations. Due to the importance of these minerals in many body functions you can expect to see improvements in skin health, coat colour and hoof wall integrity within a few weeks of using ImmunoHoof.
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ImmunoHoof can be added to the horse’s daily meals at 20g per 500 kg horse per day.
Available in 1 kg, 2.5 kg and 5 kg buckets or refill bags
Back2Basics Muscle-Up
A blend of three of the most deficient amino acids found in horse diets. Lysine, methionine and threonine are provided in a balanced ratio to one another to fulfil the horse’s needs. The mix allows horses to utilise dietary protein more effectively and in certain cases can make up for a shortage or crude protein in the diet. Muscle-Up will help with general muscle mass and assist with hoof health, immune system function and will provide a boost to liver detoxification.
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Muscle Up can be added to the horse’s daily meals at 20 – 35g per 500 kg horse per day.
Available in 1.5 kg buckets or refill bags and 5 kg refill bags
Back2Basics GC Joint
A basic joint-support supplement providing high doses of glucosamine and low molecular weight chondroitin, which have been shown to improve joint health and help maintain joints through day to day work. GCJoint can help arthritic horses by reducing stiffness and improving mobility of joints, keeping our golden oldies comfortable and mobile. While not classified as essential nutrients, glucosamine and chondroitin have proved themselves as valuable nutraceuticals in prevention of joint degradation.
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GCJoint can be added to the horse’s meals at a loading dose of 20 g per day for a 500 kg horse for 2 – 4 weeks followed by a maintenance dose of 10 g per 500 kg
Available in 1 kg, 2 kg and 5 kg buckets
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A quick note on the packaging – after investigating recycling and packaging alternatives I have chosen to use recyclable plastic bags and re-usable plastic buckets for my products. Should more environmentally friendly alternatives become available, I will change to these.
For now please recycle and for non-recyclable materials consider making Ecobricks as a way to reduce, re-use and recycle.
FAQs
Yes! They are safe to feed together and work well together improving overall immunity and health.
ImmunoHoof and Muscle Up – Immunohoof improves hoof quality and strength while Muscle Up provides lysine and methionine to speed up growth and improve hoof wall quality.
Yes, they are safe for pregnant and lactating mares. Muscle Up doses can be increased for lactating mares to meet their high lysine requirements for milk production – contact me for amounts to feed.
Yes, they are both safe for young growing foals but dosages need to be worked out correctly so please contact me to help with this.
Yes – while balancers contain the ingredients of both supplements, I find the amounts that they do not provide the correct amounts of these nutrients to provide what a horse needs. ImmunoHoof adds zinc and copper to help balance the high levels of iron found in balancers on independent testing.
This is part of a custom diet and can be worked out with a diet analysis. Click here to find out more.
Yes, we use The Courier Guy to deliver country-wide.
Unfortunately most couriers do not come out to the farm and PUDO lockers are not an option at this stage as the service is not offered in my location.
Costs depend on parcel weight which includes the box and packaging. Parcel up to 4.5 kg -R 110, 5 – 14.5 kg R 175, 15 – 25 kg R 235 and over 25 kg charged per kg @ R 9.75 per kg