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Equine America Apple Lytes Liquid

Apple Lytes Liquid provides a carefully balanced ratio of key electrolytes which include sodium, potassium, chloride, calcium and magnesium in a palatable, liquid form.

As a result this helps promote drinking and rehydration and restores lost electrolytes, to help maintain optimum performance. It is made of a low sugar formulae and suitable for all horses and ponies.
Super tasty and appetising apple and cherry flavour. Just mix in with your feed.
Importantly it is BETA NOPS and UFAS accredited, ensuring our products do not contain prohibited substances and are suitable for horses competing under FEI regulations and the Rules of Racing.
Apple Lytes are also available as a convenient paste or in powder form.

What do I use Equine America Apple Lytes Liquid For?

Targeted support for:
Horses in training, after fast work and racing, especially those fed cubes, for ease of mixing in feed.
Sport horses after heavy periods of heavy sweating, competition and long-distance travel.
Hunters after strenuous days in the field.
All horses and ponies working in hot or humid conditions and sweating regularly.

Key Ingredients per 60ml serving
Sodium 4.1g Potassium 1.4g
Chloride 9.4g Calcium 0.54g
Magnesium 0.8g

An increase in body temperature, either as a result of exercise, travelling or high environmental temperature will cause the horse to sweat. The evaporation of this sweat helps the horse to cool down and regulate his body temperature.
Sweating causes fluid loss, together with the loss of body salts or electrolytes, which are contained in the sweat.
The important electrolytes are Sodium (Na) and Chloride (Cl), Potassium (K), Calcium (Ca) and Magnesium (Mg) and they play many key roles in the body, but especially muscle contraction and relaxation, the nervous system, and maintaining the fluid balance around cells.
Potassium is usually supplied in abundance in the horse’s diet, as most forages such as pasture, hay and haylage are high in potassium.
Sodium and Chloride are found at much lower levels in forages, and even for horses in light work, sodium and chloride need to be provided on a daily basis.
Most compound feeds such as cubes and mixes, will provide some sodium and chloride in the form of salt, but if intakes are low, this may not provide enough, and supplemental electrolytes will be required. Similarly, hard working horses, especially in hot or humid conditions, will lose larger quantities of electrolytes and water in sweat.

There will often not be enough in normal daily feed to replace these losses, and additional electrolytes will be needed to replenish these losses, encouraging the horse to drink and promote rehydration, to maintain health and performance.
A horse in moderate work, trotting and cantering, can lose as much as 5-7 litres of fluid, and 50-70g electrolytes in an hour, and this will increase as the work intensity or duration increases, and even more if the weather is hot and humid!
So maintaining hydration, and replacing lost electrolytes is important not only for elite competition and racehorses, but for all horses and ponies who are sweating after work – from Pony Club rallies or long hacks in the summer, right through to Racehorses,
international eventers, show jumpers and dressage horses!
Because horse sweat contains a higher concentration of sodium and chloride than his other body fluids, it is important that supplemental electrolytes are provided at the correct concentrations to ensure that the desire to drink is maintained, so fluid balance AND electrolyte losses can be restored, to promote recovery, and ensure continued optimum performance.

This is especially important during long distance travel, or longer show and events, when fatigue will increase, and performance will decline if electrolyte and fluid balance are not restored.
Apple Lytes Solution has been carefully formulated to replace the key electrolytes and encourage drinking to help prevent dehydration and maintain peak performance all season.
Apple Lytes Solution is highly palatable, and should be mixed in feed. Clean, fresh water should always be available.

What are the benefits of Apple Lytes?
Sodium, Potassium and Chloride levels are carefully balanced to provide optimum levels to promote drinking and restore electrolytes losses to maintain hydration and promote performance Calcium and Magnesium are also provided from bio-available sources to replace losses in sweat.
Low sugar (from Sorbitol) and suitable for all horses and ponies Highly palatable, with an attractive apple/cherry flavour, and readily accepted even by
fussy feeders.

Nutrition
A complementary mineral feed for horses, designed to replace essential electrolytes lost in sweat.
Directions for feeding: Mix well in feed
For 500 kg horses: 30ml daily for lighter work; feed up to 60ml per day after strenuous
exercise or when sweating heavily. Maximum 60ml per day
For smaller ponies: 15ml daily for lighter work; Feed up to 30 ml per day after strenuous
exercise or heavy sweating. Maximum 30ml per day
Do not exceed recommended intakes unless under professional advice

Key Ingredients per 60ml serving
Sodium 4.1g Potassium 1.4g
Chloride 9.4g Calcium 0.54g
Magnesium 0.8g

Additives (per kg):
Sensory additives: Mixture of flavouring compounds 7500mg
Composition: Sodium Chloride, Magnesium Chloride, Glycerine, Sorbitol, Potassium
Chloride, Calcium Chloride.
Analytical Constituents:
Ash 58.5% Potassium 2.3%
Sodium 6.8% Calcium 0.45%
Chloride 15.4% Magnesium 0.68%