Testimonials

Horses and ponies fed CoolStance at Baulking Grange UK

At Baulking Grange we have a variety of horses and ponies, from children’s ponies to competition horses. They all thrive on Coolstance, which we have used with great success for the past twelve years.

We particularly appreciate its slow-burn energy properties, making it an ideal basis for any feed regime.

Our horses and ponies have never looked so well. Thank you Stance Equine

Sally and Emma Colliver

Baulking Grange Equestrian Centre

www.baulkinggrange.co.uk

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Silverlane Gracious, a prolific winner and PUK (ponies UK) 2010 qualified is fed exclusively on Coolstance.

Coolstance copra horse feed cures skin conditions

I will be happy to write a proper testimonial for you. I don’t have a picture of Toggi in his worst condition but when I got him there was not a single place on his trunk and neck that you could put your hand that didn’t have weeping lumps. His coat was dull and had bare patches, his skin was dry and almost wrinkled and he was 16’1 and 9ysr old. Since I have had him on this feeding regime he has grown to 17’ (bit of a surprise!!) and has doubled in weight. He has virtually no lumps, no respiratory issues and certainly no swollen legs which was another symptom.  I have attached a picture of him since I started feeding cool stance and ad lib hay. I think you will agree he looks fab and this was a while ago – he looks even better now.

Kerry Wiles, UK

CoolStance copra for welsh ponies

We are a very small Welsh Sect. A stud in Lincs.   I was I was looking for something I could feed to such a variety of ages of ponies,  (from foals to 33year olds!)  Also a couple prone to Laminitis.   The Feed Specialist at our local store recommened CoolStance Copra.   Not very convinced it was all she said. I tried it - that was nearly 3 years ago - and I am still feeding it and recommending it to aother people.    I as I say, I have such a variety of ages - Foals, yearlings, brood mares and 2 Golden oldies - a mare 33 and a gelding 20.

They all thrive on the CoolStance copra -most imortantly I have noticed if the amount of milk, the mares make.

I recently sold a 3/4 bred Spanish colt, the lady who bought him was so impressed she wanted to use CoolStance Copra - and had to get it from miles away, from her.

So I would recommend Coolstance Copra ro anyone who has a real mixture of ponies/horses - it is so easy to mix and I just adjust the ratio of feed to suit. 

By the way even the dog likes it!!!

Joan Woolhouse Lincolnshire UK

CoolStance copra calming Leopard Apaloosa

My horse an 8 year old Leopard Apaloosa has been very uptight and fretful. I tried adjusting his feed to cooler grass hay but he still was totally dangerous, unpredictable. After I heard about CoolStance I was hopeful it might help calm my horse. After a couple of weeks he has transformed into a different animal. Everyone at the facility I board him at has seen the transformation and can't believe it. Those with the same problem I had are convinced! They will try this feed out.The only problem I have is that he won't eat it alone. I have to put sugar or syrup on it. He eats it and still has the same calming affect. Thanks! My rides are much more enjoyable now!

Heather Golden Califonia May 2010

Justin Scoggin excelling in roping and barrel racing

Justin Scoggin is a 12 year old, fourth generation cowboy who lives with his mum Debbie and step dad Mark at the family owned Palmerston Stock Horse Stud, Quirindi, NSW.

Debbie and Mark both compete at championship levels as does Justin’s grandmother , Anne Woodham.  Anne has been winning titles for over 4 decades, breeding and competing on her own progeny.  Anne proudly boasts that on discovery of CoolStance copra the health of her horses coats, body condition and hooves have excelled all expectations.  The success of her horses and the Palmerston Stock Horse Stud is credit to the quality of Stance Equine horse feeds.

Justin’s two horses, both bred and trained by Anne, are his pride and joy.  Ranchwood Spike, a 13 year old brown Quarter Horse gelding is at his best in the any roping competition excelling at Breakaway Roping.  Ranchwood Towbar, an 11 year old Quarter Horse gelding, is slick and hard to beat around the barrels in the Barrel Racing.

In 2008 Justin qualified for his first National Finals in the under 11’s Barrel Race, and in 2009 qualified for the National Finals under 14’s Barrel Race and under 18’s Breakaway Roping, he is the youngest cowboy to have qualified in Breakaway Roping.

Justin excelled at Pony Club and School Horse sports, is a member of the Australian Student Rodeo Association and is working towards qualifying for the 2011 Australian team to compete at Farmington, New Mexico USA.

CoolStance copra supplied by Stance Equine is high in oil which is essential to maintain peak performance hoofs, coats and general well being in all horses.  CoolStance maintains the heatlh of Justins horses inside and out. CoolStance keeps them calm, and in peak condition to perform consistently

CoolStance horse feed for polo ponies Druids Lodge (Polo, UK) "CoolStance has been the backbone of our feeding system here at Druids Lodge for 5 years. With one hundred polo ponies fed on CoolStance, only the quantity of oats has needed to be regulated. The oil and protein content in CoolStance maintains good muscle formation and excellent glossy condition. The ponies carry little extra weight so remain fit and athletic.  This feed has proved to be an economic success".

CoolStance horse feed for shiny coat and body condition in ponies and quarter  horses Doris Drane Victoria AUS "I have been using CoolStance for over 3yrs now and I find it the best feed by far!!  I feed 6 horse ranging from ponies to Quarter Horses. my daughter competes in Barrel Racing and we always get comments on her horses coat how shiny it is winter and summer!! Not only does CoolStance give my horses a lovely shiny coat also I have found it to fantastic for keeping condition on them without having to give them a mixture that would take 1hr to mix up!  It is also  a feed that does not fizz my horses!!!  Thank You  for such a great product and look forward to using CoolStance for many years to come!!!"

CoolStance horse feed to avoid colic and trying up in roping horses Sue-Ellen Scoggins (Roping, USA) "For around 8 years now I have used CoolStance. My mare ‘Dimples' was previously prone to severe bouts of colic and tying up, but since introducing CoolStance to her diet, I have had no further problems. In 2000, 2001 and 2002 she even went on to win the ABCRA breakaway roping titles. I love this product, she loves the taste and her health and performance has never been better!"

Coolstance copra horse feed for glossy coat and calm showjumping horses

(Stance Sponsored Rider, Showjumper, Barrel Racer, Australia)

"Since feeding my horses CoolStance they have beautiful  glossy coats and look so healthy. They stay calm, relaxed and don't get fizzy, and it's so simple to feed. Even the fussy horses end up loving CoolStance if it's introduced gradually. I work my horses 5 to 6 days a week and they hold their condition well and look so healthy".

Mel Winnell

CoolStance copra for healthy arabs

Rhonda Davis
(River Valley Arabians, AZ, USA)
"I had been on a premium low starch diet for over 3 years and began to notice how important the NSF contents of different feeds are. I was fortunate to find CoolStance and thought it was an unusual product being that it was coconut. I suggested it for a friend of mine for her laminitic mare and bought a bag for myself to see how the horses liked it. They immediately accepted the new addition in their food.

Once I heard how remarkably my friend's mare was doing on the feed, I decided to compare the NSF of CoolStance to the other food product I was using. I decided right then and there to switch feeds altogether from the cup I was adding to their diet to approximately 2 pounds and eliminating the other food.

I love to research and I read on the internet that university studies are currently recommending low starch diets to prevent and eliminate diseases. I also learned that coconut is one of the "perfect" and healthiest foods for humans and thought it would have to be the same for horses too. The more I learned about CoolStance I realized it was not just for horses with Cushings Disease or laminitic horses, but would be excellent for prevention of all the 5 man-made equine diseases such as ulcers, tying up, laminitis, colic and founder.

Coconut is very alkalizing; thus neutralizes the acid that is built up in the horse. The traditional grain products such as the starch in sweet feed, corn oats and barley are very acidic forming and it is the acid that causes disease. Disease cannot live in an alkaline inner terrain and can only live in an acidic environment. I realized this product is amazingly healthy for horses!

My yearlings and weanlings will be healthier and not be encouraged to develop epithisytis and OCD as they would be on high starch diets. They will be able to fatten up and prepare for the sales barn without the fear of surgery facing them in the future.

Also, I live in Arizona with high temperatures during the summers and found this feed to be completely safe for the horses, where normally I would have stopped feeding grain for those few months. Not only did I go through the hot summer with less fear of foundering them by using this feed, at the end of the summer, their coats were incredibly shiny. Many people said it was like looking in a mirror and of course wanted to know what I was using. I have told many people about your amazing product!

A bonus in using CoolStance is that the feed never developed those pesty little mealy bugs, and that saves me so much work in not having to clean out the feed room twice during our hot summer.

I ask these questions to my fellow horse friends:

1. Why wait till horses are overloaded with acid and showing disease before you put them on a healthy diet?
2. Why let your horse suffer from any of the diseases that grain based diets create?
3. Why pay the vet bills from the disease created from the high starch diets?

I love this product and wish to thank you for creating such a wonderful healthy product line that will help protect horses from so many diseases in their lifetime. I hope people use it as a preventative and as a substitute for the traditional heavy grain diets early in a horse's lifetime

Pete Shumack
(Winner of Aus Open NCHA Non-pro and Non-pro Novice 2006, Cutting, NSW)
"My horse Rakateer CAT has always been fed on CoolStance since I have owned him, and he still is today. I have found that CoolStance has enabled him to always be in top show condition, yet retain his beautiful temperament.

I feed CoolStance to Rakateer CAT as well as my broodmares and foals who all recieve and pass on The Performance Edge as a result."

Julie Legg (Tui Lodge, SEQ) "We have around 20 horses in work on full hard feed, had been using the "copies" of CoolStance but just didn't find it had the same results. We changed back to CoolStance and within a week the horses showed amazing colour and shine in their coats.Super product thank you so much! I have attached a picture of one of our sale horses that two weeks prior had been in paddock condition."

A couple of years ago I had an outstanding  young buckskin horse  that  tied up and had to be put down. Up to that point I had never owned a tying up horse, and it was such a  traumatic experience I decided to learn everything I could about horse nutrition. I learned  that almost everything I had been taught at college, told or believed  about corn, oats, and sweet feed was wrong. The learning curve led me  to understand that nearly everything on the ingredient tag, when it  comes to horses, is basically irrelevant. I believe the only  important ingredient on tag should be the starch content. It is curious that the big feed companies will not list starch. This will lead everyone to Cool Stance. When someone notices and asks what I'm  feeding, I answer and begin to explain why I feed it. Not surprisingly they yawn at the science, the metabolism, or how to keep  their horses from acting hot and stupid on anything other than hay. On the other hand they do get excited when I start pointing out the shiny hair, tails dragging the ground, long manes, and good hoofs. I guess any motivation is OK as long as the outcome is correct."

Denny Gentry 2007

Creator of UTRSC Roping Association

February 2009

We have been using Coolstance for a number of years as it is a great conditioning additive especially with the number of older horses we have who are over 20 and range into their early 30's.  It is easy for them to digest, the oils help with their coats etc.

Plus all the younger ones get it added to their feed as well.  It makes the chestnuts and bays shine, plus the greys have a shimmer.

Plus our t/bred broodmare and foal look wonderful on it.

Plus it is one of the best things to add to the ponies feed when they are on their diets, to add a great feed stuff which tastes good, low in the carbs and sugars they do not need.  It has helped stop them in their tracks when they begin to show signs of founder.

Wonderful stuff

Jill Cerveny
Ivahri-arabians
Wallacia NSW 2745

"I have been feeding Copra since I started riding (and feeding!) horses 9 years ago, I have looked at Pollard and grains and oats... none of them compare. When I started feeding CoolStance © all of my horses just blossomed into beautiful shiny glossy horses, and that was in paddock condition with little to no rugging! I bought my Thoroughbred Jag (pictured) 2 months prior to this photo being taken, and when he arrived at my paddock, he was LAME and THIN and 13 years old not to mention a Thoroughbred that are world renouned weight keeper offers nightmares! His paddock he had come from was basically weeds! Good quality roughage and CoolStance (as well as a few mineral and herb supplaments) see him looking spectacular for two months on! He is shiney and his mane and tail (that were jagged and short when i first got him) are growing out healthily and his hooves (the reason for his lameness when he arrived) are 100% better and strong!

I recommend ANYONE whether pleasure rider, show or eventer to use this product, it works wonders. It is a great base for any feed and you can easily mix chaff, pellets and grains in with it if need be if you require some extra fizz for competition. It tastes great and is excellent for covering up herbs and minerals and salts that are sometimes needed to be mixed with feeds.

All my horses lick the tub clean! Then the other agisted horses come into the yards which are left open when not used, and lick it clean again!"

Amanda

CoolStance copra for shiny coat and body condition

"I have used CoolStance copra for years, and have an 18 year old chocolate taffy gelding Stormy, it makes him shine and brings out a deep rich black colour in him.

He can't tolerate a lot of grain but copra he can handle with out any side affects. He is built like a greyhound and copra helps keep the weight on him. I use 1 - copra to 3 water for him and it works. I ride him in the Australian Light Horse Association."

Thanks

Jan Damrow
MaMa Creek Queensland

Feeding copra to foals for growth and health

Byron was  a four months old Australian Stock Horse colt when this was taken

He has been fed CoolStance copra since birth.

He watched our Australian Blue Cattle Dog Banjo play with his plastic chicken, and could not wait to have a go.

Jenny Bone

(2007 APRA Top End Champion Breakaway Roper, Pro Rodeo, NT)
"For the past 15 years I have competed on the rodeo circuit with my purebred Quarterhorses - my favourite events being Breakaway Roping and Open Barrels.

I have been using Stance feeds for more than 10 years now and  usually feed GoStance mixed with lucerne & oaten chaff, plus some grain.

I see glowing coats and it's a great fattener. The horses LOVE it!!"

Low NSC copra feed to avoid laminitis in racing arabs

from Delyth Thomas  - Arabian and Thoroughbred Racing Trainer, Wales, UK

"I was first introduced to copra four years ago by a friend.  Once I tried it I could not believe the difference - especially in one horse 'Roches Du Cayrou'.  He had been extremely lean and was difficult to keep weight on.  After running he would tuck up and we would have to leave him for four weeks before running him again.  Since going on copra the difference is unbelievable.  He now holds his condition and we could run him every week if we needed to.

We also have a high strung horse called "Jazz City" (a hurdler), and copra has worked wonders in keeping him calmer and helping with his temperament.

We also have three old horses - aged 25, 40 and 41 - who were near impossible to keep weight on.  Since they have been on copra, they maintain their weight and have NEVER looked better!

I find that copra is ideal for putting and keeping condition on any horse - old, young, mares in foal, ANYTHING - and it also helps keep them calm."