Managing a good doer shouldn’t feel like walking a tightrope, and it doesn’t require fear or extreme restriction. What it does require is predictability. These horses thrive on consistent access to low‑sugar fibre, daily salt, a mineral supplement that doesn’t add calories, and regular movement to improve insulin sensitivity.

Selenium problems are sneaky because both deficiency and toxicity produce vague, overlapping, “not quite right” symptoms. Selenium has very small margins between too much and not enough - which is why it's a 'Goldilocks mineral'. That means owners - and sometimes even professionals - often chase the wrong diagnosis while the real culprit is a mineral imbalance hiding in plain sight

Our new look Sound Advice Moody Mare Mix pairs Chaste Tree Berry with Magnesium because together they support both the hormonal cause and the behavioural symptoms.