Equine Joint Plus (3.75 Pounds)

Product works excellent for my chronic lyme horse. He has reocurring eye uvietis and when an episode starts I put him on it to boost his immune system along with eye antibiotic daily and the white cloud soon begins to disappear. The vet was skeptical last year that it would clear, however it did once on this product. Kept on it for two months and late summer began again. However making progress with the eye after a month,it is clearing again. I double dose for two wks than a single dose to make it last a month due to the expense. However this seller has the best price anywhere. Highly recommend as also has improved his comfort level too due to arthiritis from the lyme. Wish I found it years ago. Best supplement overall and a nice pellet my horse eats well.

I actually bought this for my dogs, I don't even own a horse.I heard of Duralactin through my flyball coach and started researching. The dog version is unnecessarily expensive...I was willing to buy it anyway if it would help my GSD, but then I came across the 3.75 pound horse pail. Saw a few reviews where people said they gave it to their dogs as well as horses. It's the same ingredients, same proportion of ingredients so I thought why not?Once I got it, I took the typical horse dose and weighed it on a gram scale and simply scaled down. A typical horse dose for an average size horse is one scoop of the product twice a day, so 1/7th of that is the same amount of duralactin, glucosamine and condroitin that you would get in one pill of Duralactin Canine Joint Plus .Instead of only being able to afford it for my poorly bred GSD who has back and joint problems, I give it to all my dogs. My GSD, my elderly chihuahua (who's joints are better off) and my 3 year old border collie that does sports (they say it's best to start athletes on this product as early as possible. My 20 pound chihuahua gets 1 teaspoon twice a day. My 70 pound GSD gets 2 teaspoons twice a day. My 30 pound border collie gets a teaspoon and a half twice a day. They eat it quite happily with their food. The product resembles rabbit alfalfa pellets, and smells kind of like a buttery shortbread. I doubt it's quite as appealing as the ice cream scented Duralactin canine tablets that reviews were describing (it's tempting to buy it just for the smell), but clearly my dogs don't object. If one has a dog that is picky, the amount is small enough, it can probably be hidden easily in a dollop of wet food, or mixed in with something that's yummier like some ground raw meat or yogurt.One bucket lasts me for months, though I do suggest refrigerating it to prevent it from going rancid. It definitely helps, and I have many other dog sport friends that swear by this product as well. The fact that the horse version works just as well for dogs has been a real money saver, so I'm happy to spread the word that this is an option.

For dog owners: I previously bought the vanilla wafer duralactin canine version, but decided to try this to save a little money on supplements. The canine duralactin only has microlactin. This has all the supplements I was giving my dogs individually: glucosamine ch, msm, vitamin c , and microlactin ( and manganese and zinc). First, I missed the description that they are pellets(or grain looking). The dogs don't seem to mind them because I give it to them with margarine/ bread or peanut butter/bread, but they are crunchy! The packaging is simple and easy to open/ close. A serving size is an ounce (a scoop) and I calculated for my canines from there. I have a St. Bernard mix and an Aussie mix that both used to eat around fish oil or glucosamine. I figured if I can sneak them their supplements and there's less chance they'll skip one , I'm on board. As time goes on I'll update because our sweet Bernie mix has stifle issues. She has already gotten a hyaluronic injection, but we also continue supplements.2/12/18 I have tried other products, but this is still my daily go-to for my large dogs. My Bernie mix still has some sore days, but she's a happy girl. I've moved away from the hy. injections and started adding arnica Montana orally or I massage her bad knee with the gel.

We have a 20+ year horse with a huge calcified knot on her front knee. We had the vet come out and look at it and he said there was not much that could be done, unless we spent a bunch doing surgery. The poor mare was struggling to walk around and we thought we would likely need to put her down in a few months. I bought this since it had worked so well on my dogs. After a month and half the size of the knot is reduced, the horse is moving better and actually gaining weight! This stuff is great.

I've used Duralactin for several years - it's pricey, but it's been quite good at dealing with "mystery lameness" - where there isn't a truly specific reason why the horse is off. It seems to control chronic inflammation (as advertised) and it restored one of my show horses from being pretty much retired to actually being functional again. He's now re-retired because of a degenerative suspensory, but I have another horse that has a permanently irritated tendon (he was leased, injured a front tendon, but instead of resting him, they just kept using him, so the tendon became chronically inflamed). The Duralactin appears to be helping him back to soundness - he's a lot better now that he's on it, and I'm hoping it will bring him back.

While living in eastern Kentucky my horse contracted uveitis. One eye was milky and oozing pus. The vet had me start off with ointments in that eye and said to put him on Duralactin as he'd seen it work on other similarly infected horses. His eye cleared up in a week or so and remained clear, and his sight is undamaged. Due to a misunderstanding, I took him off the Duralactin several months after the onset of the uveitis. His eye turned milky and the pus began to ooze. I put him back on Duralactin and after a couple of months treating him with the eye ointment, his eye cleared. I've kept him on the Duralactin ever since, and we've had no return (several years have gone by, now).

Could not get a single horse at my barn to eat it!! Will never know how it works had to toss it!!