August Horse Care Checklist: Top Supplements & Products for Hot Weather Health
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When the August heat peaks, your horse’s health demands extra attention. The intense temperatures significantly strain your horse’s entire system, impacting everything from muscle recovery and respiratory function to digestive balance. Taking proactive steps in your care routine now can make a difference, ensuring your horse feels strong and healthy as the season ends.
For Post-Ride Recovery: Sore No-More® Liniment
Summer training sessions and long trail rides often leave muscles feeling tight, sore, and fatigued. That’s why Sore No-More® is a trusted favorite among top riders and trainers for its fast-acting, all-natural relief. Its powerful formula works without the harsh chemicals or blistering agents in traditional liniments.
Why It's an August Essential:
- Soothes & Cools: It's an arnica and witch hazel formula that gently soothes inflammation and draws out heat from overworked muscles and joints.
- Versatile & Safe: It can be used directly before a ride to loosen muscles or as a refreshing post-ride massage or bath brace.
- Clean, Natural Formula: Free of harsh chemicals and parabens, with no artificial dyes or menthol smell found in many other liniments.
Perfect for: Massaging into sore backs, shoulders, and hindquarters; Pre-show or pre-ride preparation to relax muscles and increase circulation.
For Respiratory & Immune Support: Aleira®
The August air is thick with dust, pollen, and other allergens that spike during humid months. These environmental factors can irritate your horse's lungs, leading to coughing, reduced stamina, or other signs of distress. To help your horse perform their best, consider Aleira®. This powerful, veterinarian-developed daily supplement supports normal respiratory function and a healthy immune response, despite poor air quality.
Why It’s an August Essential:
- Maintains Healthy Airways: Manages the effects of seasonal allergens, dust, and pollutants, supporting clear lungs and comfortable breathing.
- Strengthens Immune Response: This product contains key ingredients such as our mushroom matrix and antioxidants to calm the body’s natural response to allergens.
- Veterinarian Formulated: Developed by veterinarians, Aleira® is backed by science to provide safe, effective, and show-safe support you can trust.
Perfect for: Horses sensitive to seasonal pollen, horses recovering with respiratory challenges, and performance horses needing optimal lung function to compete at their best
For Complete Daily Wellness: Eq-Well™
When your horse sweats more, grazes less, or goes off their grain due to the heat, vitamin and mineral gaps can easily occur. These nutritional shortfalls can impact everything from coat and hoof quality to overall energy levels. Eq-Well™ is designed to be a crucial daily safeguard, providing a comprehensive source of essential vitamins and minerals to maintain optimal health and balance during summer stress.
Why It's an August Essential:
- Fills Nutritional Gaps: Delivers a complete profile of essential vitamins and trace minerals that might be lost through sweat or missed due to a decreased appetite in the heat.
- Supports Whole-Horse Health: Promotes a shiny coat, strong hooves, and immune health.
- Versatile & Balanced Formula: Expertly formulated for horses across all work levels
Perfect for: All horses needing a daily boost— especially those with inconsistent appetite or changing turnout routines.
For Total Digestive Defense: Assure® Guard Gold
Changes in hay, increased electrolyte use, and even subtle dehydration can disrupt the delicate balance of the gut. Assure® Guard Gold offers a clinical approach to digestive health, providing comprehensive support for the entire GI tract—from foregut to hindgut—to help neutralize these summer stressors.
Why it’s an August Essential:
- Complete Digestive Support: Assure® Guard Gold’s patented formula combines prebiotics, probiotics, digestive enzymes, and psyllium to support nutrient absorption and healthy fermentation in the hindgut.
- Helps Buffer the Stomach: Calcium carbonate acts a buffer in the stomach, helping maintain a normal gastric pH level.
- Backed by Science: Its clinically studied formula is proven to support horses through the digestive challenges of stress, travel, or diet changes, making it a reliable choice for horses with digestive concerns.
Perfect for: Performance horses, picky eaters, or any horse transitioning diets or environments.
Ready for a Healthy August?
This month, focus on proactive care— because preventing problems is always easier than fixing them. With Sore No-More®, Aleira®, Eq-Well™, and Assure® Guard Gold, you’re giving your horse targeted support to stay cool, comfortable, and conditioned through the dog days of summer.
Stay ahead of heat stress, and let your horse shine all season long!
