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My name is Jessica Parr and my business is Spring and Equestrian. I am a hunter–jumper trainer. My favorite part about the horse industry is that you really can’t learn everything, ever.

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You can have all sorts of goals, but it’s a 50/50 partnership with your horse. Building that relationship — and helping clients do that as well — is one of my favorite parts of being in the horse industry.

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Some of the issues I’ve struggled with in my own horses or client horses include a lot to do with gut health: ulcers, behavioral issues, and allergies.

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I believe I first came across Mad Barn when we had a horse coming off omeprazole. The vet recommended Visceral, and then I got into the other products.

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I look for the concentration of vitamins and minerals in the supplement — something I learned about from talking to Scott. It should be produced in a way that’s clean for the horses, and you’re not just spending money on a product with lots of ingredients but only a tiny amount of what you actually need. I want concentrated amounts of vitamins and minerals. Mad Barn is quite affordable, and you can pick and choose what you want to use.

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Omneity — all of my horses at home are on that all the time. The W-3 Oil has been a really nice addition for my client horses. In the springtime, we’ll go with spirulina when we have some allergies. There’s quite a wide range — I’ve probably tried them all.

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We’ve had some horses get a nutritional analysis done, which has been extremely helpful because sometimes we don’t know exactly what’s going in and out. As a horse owner, you want to do everything you can for your horse, and as a trainer I want to do everything I can for my clients’ horses — but it can get overly complicated, and sometimes we add things unnecessarily. Stripping back their diet and nutrition and optimizing it is what I learned from Mad Barn, for sure.