Equine nutrition’s roots’ are firmly planted with the origin of equestrian sports in the military and follow closely through to the first show jumping back at Olympia in 1907. In these bygone years of a proud equestrian era where the quality of your horse was a judge of your status, excellent nutrition, careful gene selection and good husbandry was all there was to make the difference. There were no complex medicines, with veterinary treatment focused on physical procedures and natural remedies.
Fuelled by the rise of antibiotic resistance and an increased awareness of climate change and the health of the planet, interest and investment digging down to re-discover our sustainable roots. Within our small team with knowledge and links all over the equine veterinary world we were working on the marginal gains. Hestevard was nutritionally the difference that our best friends, the Equus caballus, have been crying out for. The use of scientifically developed sustainable nutrition may continue to divide opinions, however those that dare to prove the science, will dare to feed ‘the difference’.
