Unika Horse Ball - Endurance

Unika’s Unika Balls: healthy fun for your horses.

Unika has conceived a brand new, ground-breaking line of products that completely changes and renovates the concept of complementary feeds: it’s called Unika Balls and it’s way more than a line of horse toys. Unika Balls are balls that your horses may lick throughout the day for, thanks to their ropes made of natural fibres, they can be hung up inside stalls or trailers. Unika Balls are not just a way to entertain your horses, but they’re also a completely new tool to enrich their diets with some important substances, such as officinal plants, electrolytes, vitamins, minerals and much more. Indeed, while we all think about complementary feeds as powder or liquid products to add to daily rations, Unika Balls are a complete innovation: they’re suspended complementary feeds!

Unika Balls Endurance has been formulated to meet the needs of the competitive endurance horse in terms of:

Unika Balls Endurance has a high content of fatty raw materials, such as rice flour, which is naturally rich in gamma oryzanol, a substance known to stimulate muscle growth under stress. The energy provided by the fatty raw materials is readily available and also helps to keep the horse hydrated during competition. Electrolytes, which are completely water soluble, balance the significant loss of salts due to sweating. Magnesium, in particular, reduces the incidence, in tired horses, of the phenomenon known as “flutter”. Amino acids help to reduce the presence of muscular lactic acid, promoting intestinal motility.

Coconut oil supplementation (MCT) means energy can be obtained from fatty substances that enter directly into the lymphatic circulation, without generating a digestion process. This phenomenon benefits the metabolism during the race, as the horse has a reserve of energy that it can spend over the course, without generating lactic acid.