SOURCE ® “Original” and Pelleted “Original”

Every horse owner knows the look of a horse that is merely getting by versus one that is truly thriving — the deep coat sheen, the dense hoof wall, the easy weight that holds even through hard training. SOURCE ® "Original" and Pelleted "Original" are built to close the gap between those two horses. This is the flagship micronutrient supplement from SOURCE, INC., concentrated from pure dehydrated North Atlantic seaweed meals and nothing else.

A single half-ounce measure carries at least 60 elements and their associated micronutrient compounds in a biologically active form — the trace minerals, naturally occurring vitamins and other nutritive factors that even excellent feeding programs can leave short. Fed daily, it works quietly across the whole horse: the hooves, the coat, the condition and the breeding shed.

Why do so many well-fed horses still come up short on micronutrients?

The answer starts in the dirt. Decades of intensive farming have steadily depleted micronutrients from agricultural soils, which means even today's finest hays and feeds can be quietly deficient in the trace elements horses need to use the rest of their ration. Without those micronutrients, expensive grain is only partly utilized — a good deal of its value ends up on the manure pile rather than in the horse.

The ocean tells a different story. The sea is nature's richest storehouse of micronutrients, and certain marine plants — unlike crops grown on depleted land — contain the broadest spectrum of trace minerals and bioactive micronutrients of any plants on earth. SOURCE selects those extraordinary seaweeds, then harvests and processes them to preserve maximum bioactivity. The result is a broad-spectrum supplement that fills the gaps a grain-and-hay diet leaves behind, so the rest of the feed can finally do its job.

What changes will you actually see in your horse?

Horsemen who have relied on SOURC E since 1975 report the same pattern of results. Hoof growth becomes rapid with a resilient, tougher texture — though because it takes nearly a year to grow an entirely new hoof, the change is usually visible at the second or third trimming. The coat shifts first: hair texture turns soft and glistens with intense color and sheen. Good weight and condition hold even under the stress of competition, hard keepers fill out, and many horses get more out of less feed.

The benefits reach the breeding shed as well, where strong conception rates and healthy foals that reach maturity are part of the same picture of all-around bloom. The earliest sign often shows up within days or weeks as a simple reduction in undigested matter passing through — a quiet signal that the horse is finally extracting more from everything it eats.

The original powder, SOURCE "Original" Dry Meal Formula, mixes easily into a daily feeding at one heaping half-ounce measure per 1,000 lbs of body weight, with the measuring scoop included. It is remarkably economical — only pennies a day, with a 5 lb container lasting an average horse about five months. SOURCE does not recommend feeding seaweed free choice, because iodine content varies between species and individual taste can lead to overconsumption; the daily measured dose is the safe, proven way to feed it.

Pelleted "Original" — sold as SOURCE Nuggets — delivers the same time-tested broad-spectrum micronutrients in a convenient, palatable pellet that took years to perfect without degrading the bioactive ingredients. The nuggets are made to taste good enough to hand-feed, which makes them ideal for picky eaters, horses on pellet-only rations and horses kept mainly on pasture. Whichever form you choose, SOURCE contains no fillers, binders, preservatives, artificial flavorings, colorings or GMO ingredients — just clean ocean nutrition.