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He started as an OTTB (Off the track thoroughbred)…13yrs old…Was ribby, dull coat, [redacted]…Now he has no [redacted] and is beefy and shiny :)
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Her coat is like velvet…beautiful condition…
I started my mare with Mad Barn’s Omniety in 2021 when I moved to Tallahassee Fl. It was suspected that she had a Metabolic disorder because of the extra pounds she would put on during the growing season. Once I had her tested in 2022, my suspicions were confirmed.
With Mad Barn’s support working with Dairy One Lab results and Dr. Elenor Kellon’s balancing formula we’ve been able to get her weight acceptable. We have just switched over to the AminoTrace product, and she tolerates it well.
It’s very important to have a company that is willing to work with your vet and lab when maintaining and caring for the EMS/IR horse.
Mad Barn has stepped up to the plate on all levels.
It’s been 1 full year since putting my mule on Spirulina and Omneity premix (which are the ONLY supplements he gets with just oats). There is a dramatic difference in his coat, hooves and overall condition. No heavy grooming, no bath and no polish! I Have never seen a mule with a better, natural, healthy shine than what he has now. Thank you for helping keep my boy looking and feeling his absolute best!
(Photos 1 and 2, taken July 2022, 3 and 4 were taken July 2023)
Less than 3 months on Mad Barn Three Amigo’s. Added Omneity and Optimum Digestive Health a month ago (changed to a senior feed as well).
J’adore les produits, service impeccable, livraison gratuite et rapide. Les agronomes sont disponibles pour nos millions de questions
When I was looking for a supplement to support gut health and [redacted], I was drawn to Mad Barn’s Visceral+ because it was one of the few that gave detailed scientific research, with links to the studies, supporting each ingredient in the supplement. Additionally, the ingredients are natural, not chemical. Our horse loves it and we have no further indications of [redacted]! Customer service is awesome! Thanks Mad Barn!
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Hi there, I wanted to share a recent photo of my girl Blaze. It is not the greatest quality picture and was taken from quite far away but from a distance I was struck by how stunning she looked in the evening light. She is 20 years young and will be 21 in April 2023. I have had Blaze on Probiotic, w-3 oil and MSM consistently over the past year. I believe the picture speaks for itself and how she is looking younger as each year passes. She struggles with on and off lameness due to conformation. She is who she is. It has been a long haul, with ups and downs, trials of lots of different options. Along with great farrier advice, lots of TLC and great nutrition, she is the best she can be. I sincerely believe your products have helped bring her to this point. She is comfortable and although retired, seeing her walk without pain, jog and on occasion, galop like a happy 2 year old, has been the most rewarding experience and fills my heart. She is my first horse, my heart horse, my forever horse.
I had been feeding high end vit/mineral supplements and a well known oil for the past 7 years. My black mare lost her dapples over time, so when I found Mad Barn I thought I'd give them a try. I started using the W-3 Oil and the Omneity P and within a month, my mare had her dapples back and she LOVES the taste. She actually starts drooling in anticipation when she sees her 'bucket' in my hands. So glad I found this company with excellent products and AMAZING customer service at a more affordable price.
I felt I had to write to let you know how impressed I am with your products. I am using Omneity Vitamin/mineral mix and W3 oil. We have two Rocky Mountain Horses, Cody (age 9) and Melody (age 15) that we take with us to travel back and forth between Ladysmith, B.C., and Louisiana twice a year. We trail ride at various locations throughout the US. The difference in the overall general health has been amazing! Their coats just gleam and are so soft. Cody has had a sensitivity to the tiniest bit of dust sometimes found in their hay and would develop a cough. Three weeks after starting the W3 oil and he has no cough at all, zero! I was a little skeptical that the oil would work as I have been trying other cough products as well as switching hay, to no avail. I am so pleased we decided to go with Omneity and W-3. I am also giving the W3 oil to our other Rocky for long term joint health. Both horses have had no issue with eating it either! I also used your feed assessment assistance which was thoroughly explained and of benefit. Thank you for providing great products at an affordable price.
When I first bought Lilly in January she was scruffy, had a short jagged mane, and didn’t have a top line. She is only 3, so I wanted her to have a balanced complete mineral as she is growing, and being started. I had heard great things about Mad Barn Omneity, so I started feeding it, and have seen amazing results! She has shedded out so nicely and gotten shiny, the biotin in it has given her a beautiful healthy mane and hooves, and the magnesium has kept her weight balanced as she grows and fills out. I can’t say enough great things about this product, and would recommend it to anyone 😀
My heart horse, who kept me sane through vet school and has been my anchor throughout my career, has been transformed since I switched to your products. He’s now 21, but since starting MadBarn 2 months ago, he’s going on 10. I always told my clients to give their horse 3 months on a product before deciding how well it works, so I can’t wait to see what the next month brings!
Whiskey was having problems with maintaining his Vitamin E levels, despite increasingly aggressive supplementation with products that had worked for him in the past. It stopped working, so I started him on w-3 oil and omneity pellets. I also gave him a water solvable Vit E supplement and an injection of E/Se during his critical time (his lowest Vit E test was 99ug/dl). He is almost back to the low end of normal one month after starting treatment!
He wasn’t fussy on the taste, but mixing some TriMax in for flavour helped him finish his grain meals. I have to drench him with the oil, but he is starting to grab the syringe when I do, so I’m hopeful I’ll be able to add it to his grain eventually. He’s a diva over food (although you wouldn’t say by looking at him) and he isn’t sold on the palatability, but it is doing wonders for my old boy.
He looks fabulous, is completely sound again, has the top line of when he was being schooled daily, and requires half halts constantly during our trails. His sweet and sunny personality has come back fully, and I’m beyond happy to have my boy back to himself again.
Thank you. Thank you for helping my boy and easing my worry. I’m delighted with the change I see in him since starting MadBarn.
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UPDATE: My heart horse has been completely renewed by feeding MadBarn exclusively (with hay cubes to get the diva to eat them). Here are the before (on Omneity Pellets and w-3 oil partial doses for a couple months) and the after picture taken on his 22nd birthday (Omneity premix, Natural E/Organic Se pellets, Spirulina, Jiaogulan, MSM, and w-3 oil). Thank you to all the MadBarn team for the amazing work you do. Please feel free to share Whiskey’s story 😊
I just wanted to send a before and after/current of my boy! He is on your omneity supplement. As are 2 other horses in my barn now. I recommend your supplement to everyone. Left is before and right is now. We are in love with the results !
My senior boy has cushings and arthritis. I submitted his feed analysis and switched him over to all mad barn products. I found giving the oil with msm as suggested by the nutritionist, has helped with his clicking. Unfortunately I had to go back to camelina oil for a jug because everyone was out of stock for the w-3 oil. I notice just in the time I used it, his clickiness came back. Not sure why people gave one star just because of the packaging. All I did was buy a big enough jug that has a nozzle/spout that opens/closes. Just that simple, no mess and it’s easy to measure the product! The review is how the product works. I think it’s great for my guy, he loves his food and never leaves anything lol.
My “gifted” senior Peruvian Paso mare had a history of laminitis/founder when I got her. Her owner got ill and someone else stepped into help, resulting in the founder. She’s been with with me for 3 years with regular barefoot hoof care, vet visits/x-rays, strictly controlled diet, regular light riding, but still some mild bouts of laminitis. In August 2021 she started on AT+ and, I believe, it has contributed to her continuing stability. Admittedly, she needs more exercise, her fat pads are showing, but I am 78 and she’s 20 = we’re 98! She is still a little (13.1) buzz saw under saddle – NOT a kid’s horse!
Dove, my Shetland pony/Miniature Horse suffered from diarrhea squirts during fall, winter and spring months especially in the last 3-4 years. Her filthy tail bag required daily washing, I washed her legs and tail frequently each week. She would have the squirts for about 10-14 days and then it would stop for 4-5 days only to start up again. I dreaded winter. According to the vet, diarrhea squirts are a common problem in the Lower Mainland of B.C. due to the wet growing conditions for local hay crops with the quality of hay varying greatly even from the same field. This winter there has been no diarrhea squirts since starting Amino Trace+. My only problem now is that Dove has put on weight due to better digestion!
Dove is a dapple silver colour with a blond mane and tail. In the summer she is clipped and looks light grey. In the summer of 2021 she progressed from light grey to a beige colour with orange patches on either side of her spine and the ends of her mane were twisted like barb wire. I suspected iron overload. I started her on Amino Trace+ and within two weeks her mane had straightened out. Dove’s new winter coat was pure dark grey instead of the dark brownish-grey it had been every other winter since we partnered in March, 2017.
Amino Trace+ has been amazing for Dove and me! Thank you!
I’d like to let you know about our purchase of Visceral. We are a 12 year old non profit horse rescue and sanctuary. Last winter we took in an abused and neglected Welsh pony/paint cross mare.
She came in with diarrhea and nothing worked. Flagyl worked for a few days, we tried bio-sponge, slippery elm, the vet just gave up. Her legs were sore in the back from always being wet.
We were told about Visceral, put her on it and the diarrhea is GONE. Just like that.
Super Brat will be 24 years old in April 2022. Last summer he lost a lot of weight/muscle due to his summer heaves. As he has PPID with his only visible symptom being loss of topline muscle I had little hope of gaining the weight/muscle back. I started him on Mad Barn's three individual amino acid supplements and Omneity Premix in September. While it took a couple of months for him to really show the weight returning, in December his chiropractor noticed stronger muscling over his loin and hindquarters. A month later the chiropractor said Brat's muscles were even stronger and she had to put a little more effort into the adjustments as there was now something to push against. I have previously tried an amino acids supplement without any noticeable improvement. I am very happy with the results.
I am a new customer so I haven’t been using the products long enough to notice results, but my two horses have no problem emptying their feed bowls! I wanted to comment on the excellent customer service provided. My order was delayed by the courier and Mad Barn stepped up and immediately shipped another order as soon as I inquired about the status of shipping, no questions asked. Thank-you Mad Barn and looking forward to many more orders! Heather
When I called Mad Barn to ask questions about their products I spoke to a person who was very knowledgable, knew their product very well and was able to answer all of my questions. Questions from ingredients, time table till the product worked, if there would be an interaction to what I was feeding currently and how the product would work on my horse. All my questions were answered and the person left me feeling that this product was the correct one for my horse and I had no doubt that Mad Barn was a step above other products on the market. Many of which I had tried with no success…. I am pleased with how quickly my order came and my horse loved the taste and eats it well. And the product Visceral, works. I am very pleased and will try more of their products. Signed, Karen Amshay
I don’t even know where to start! I have owned my 10y/o quarter horse since he was only 4 years old. He was a race horse in Alabama, and was brought to Ontario shortly after his racing career ended. When I first brought him home, we were riding 4-5 days a week which was just enough for him to melt away & lose a lot of weight, even though he was being fed twice a day, and had access to lots of hay. It didn’t take long for things to start spiraling downward, and next thing we knew, he was half the horse he was when I bought him. And just to top it off, he couldn’t seem to make any friends in any group he was put with, and was constantly beat up. I could tell that he was beyond stressed. I had never owned my own horse before, so it was a whole learning process for me and it was terrifying not knowing how to go about fixing it.
Fast forward a couple years, he had gained a bit of weight back after trying many different supplements & feeding routines. He may have gained some weight, but he was still the same unhappy, touch-me-not horse who, quite honestly, I wasn’t sure I could trust around other people while in the cross-ties, or even just in his stall. He was just so on edge and didn’t want anyone near him. Eventually I just accepted that this was just the way he was and I’d just have to deal with it.
Fast forward a couple more years, we are now in a new location with a new feeding schedule and a different group of horses, and never gets beat on. He was nearly back up to weight, but still cranky & unmotivated. I called the vet out as I had my suspicions he may have had [redacted]. He was put on [redacted], and then I started him on Visceral+. His coat looks great, his feet are great (a whole other struggle we had), his mood changed, and his personality came back after almost 6 years! I cannot thank the Mad Barn team enough for making such amazing products and especially for giving me my horse back.
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First pic – April 11, 2021; Second pic – September 23, 2021
I just wanted to tell you thank you so much for all the help and guidance through everything! My mare came back home to me from a training barn in TERRIBLE condition. All I did was feed her normal feeding regime of beet pulp, alfalfa pellets, Omneity, and w-3 Oil and in less than two months she went from underweight, dull coat, patchy, ribby, covered in hives, to filled out, great skin and coat, and SO shiny, even getting some dapples! Thank you so much to the whole Mad Barn team!
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Peanut has had a history of having poor hoof condition since I purchased him as a 4 year old, 5 years ago. This horse has been on a strict 5-6 week trimming schedule (at one point it was every 3-4) weeks to try and combat the continuous flaring and cracking. By the time 5 or 6 weeks rolled around his feet looked completely neglected… talk about frustrating!
In the spring I decided to pull some blood work and a mineral panel. After finding out he was deficient in multiple minerals, Delaneys advised to put Peanut on Mad Barn Mineral- Amino Trace; this would balance the minerals he was lacking. (Just an FYI, the horses were on Hoffman’s free choice mineral prior to this).
Like myself, if your not knowledgeable on how mineral deficiency can significantly affect the body, I highly recommend to educate yourself. It’s one of those things you may think is so minimal, but it can really result in severe negative effects.
Multiple folks told me the only way to resolve the cracking and flaring was to shoe him. This would have been a temporary fix or would band aid the issue I’m sure, but my question was WHY his feet were like this…as there’s always a reason.
As frustrating as this journey has been, here I am 3 months into using Mad Barn Mineral-amino trace supplemented to Peanut faithfully on a daily basis. In the long run I know this has turned into an extremely cheap solution. See below for an incredible transformation in such a short amount of time! (No I’m not a distributor for the company).
I’m hopeful this post can help the next person trouble shoot a long term issue they have had a hard time resolving.
September 2020- 6 weeks post trim
June 2021- approx 2 months on MB mineral
July 2021- approx 3 months on MB mineral
Hello Scott and all at Mad Barn!
Several of us started our horses on Omneity in January and are just starting to see some results. I wanted to show you what their hooves both look like and ask if you have seen this before. One (the first pic) is a 20 year old Rocky Mountain and the other is my 18 year old Icelandic (2nd pic)
The periople on both horses show quite a difference. Would this be like “before and after:? Or is this just a seasonal change? We were curious. I know it doesn’t harm anything but gosh so interesting!
Sherry Gatten & Nancy Drew (yup that’s her real name!)
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Here is an update for you. These are just from my Icelandic as I couldn’t get pics of the Kentucky mountain gelding that I had sent in the original email. Pretty sure the scaly part is just seasonal but we started the minerals in late December/early January. I couldn’t pin-point the exact date.
My Icelandic has thin soles and as you can see slightly under-run heels but has only been barefoot for just over 2 years of his 18 years. I can see some pretty tight growth now coming from the top so that’s excellent!
I think we can see where the minerals were started and the scaly parts are just shedding off.
I trim my horse’s feet and also for some friends who are just starting to feed Mad Barn (Omneity) I’m really excited to see how this will help their hooves. One is a 23 year old Appendix who just cannot maintain a good hoof.
Dagian is a 30 year old Percheron cross and husband horse extraordinaire! The first picture is him upon arrival 9 months ago, he was eating pounds and pounds of grain and not gaining weight. Now he’s getting Omneity, beet pulp, flax, and oil, and he looks like he’s aging in reverse!
I started feeding Mad Barn vitamin E and W-3 Oil for my 17 year old stallion last year and it made a real different in Breeding season. This last year I bought a foal over the internet with great breeding for working cow horse was super excited to go out to Alberta and pick him up at 6 months old only to get there and see he was in horrible shape. We put him in the trailer and headed home to BC. The foal was so weak he curled up in the deep sawdust in the trailer and sleep the 8 hours home. I called my vet right away and he came out and did bloodwork. His Blood-work came back that he was anemic, he was also infested with worms. We started him on VitB 12 shots, safeguard wormer 5 days in a row and added W-3 Oil and Vit E from Mad Barn to his grain and here he is in the pictures the day I got him and then 6 months later.
Wanting to share my success with my new found knowledge that all started because of the OCTRA Zoom meeting with Scott Cieslar from Mad Barn. After that presentation I contacted a nutritionist from Mad Barn and did plenty of research on my own. Even though I have seen results in Vixen, K2 is the one who has made a massive change in both appearance, temperament, and behavior.
Ty and I got K2 almost two years ago, he was very under weight and had massive separation anxiety. Being that he was an older horse (15) with these behaviors it has been tricky to over come. This year, within the last couple of months, I have taken both K2 and Vixen off commercial grains, feed them a balanced diet that was advised by one of Mad Barns nutritionists and give them Omneity daily.
The pictures and videos are within the first month of getting K2 and then after. The only difference being diet changes.
Thank you Scott and Mad Barn for educating horse people and making such good products that work!
They seem to really enjoy the W3 oil. My 18 year old mare is keeping up with my 4 year old TB galloping around the paddock now!
My horse, a 16 yo who just came to me in December….has been dunking his hay since he arrived. My vet had always told me it was a sign of [redacted]. So I found your product, Viseral, through a friend of mine who does a lot of equine supplement research. In just 3 weeks he has stopped dunking his hay!!!!!! And I had the best ride ever on him yesterday! Thank you!!!
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Master Instructor Trainer, Romana’s Pilates
Author “Pilates for the Dressage Rider”
USDF Bronze Medalist
www.pilatesfordressage.com
Cable Beach, 9 year old Standardbred. I’m really happy with his transformation this far!! I ended up putting all 4 of my horses on it. M&L Farms
