Heave Ho Horse Nutritional Supplement for Breathing Allergies, COPD, Coughing 30 Servings Sugar-Free Apple

Game Changer
My older mare whom I’ve had a year now always had a cough or two at the start of a ride, or after a roll in the dusty sand. We are in Colorado where most winters are very wet and the snow keeps the dust down. However, in spring I noticed my mare’s cough increase a bit. She also became itchy and gave herself a corneal ulcer from scratching. I started her on Antihist H, and it seemed to work for maybe a month. We hit summer and it didn’t rain for nearly a month, and she started to get minor bloody noses. It appeared to be a dust allergy, and her vet recommended antihistamines OR Heave Ho. I decided to go straight to antihistamine pills, and that quieted her down again for another couple months. I also stopped Antihist H. Now it’s September, and we still have gotten nearly no rain. The dust is the worst it’s ever been in the time I’ve had her. A few weeks ago, her cough ramped up bad. Flared nostrils constantly- normal respiratory rate, however. I started to get very worried. I was trying everything I could- soaking her hay, cleaning her stall to the bare minimum to keep the dust down inside, increased her antihistamine dose at the vet’s recommendation, and even started Cough Free. She didn’t want to touch the Cough Free. I managed to convince her by the stuffing the pellets into cookies for a few days, but still saw no improvement and she hated it. I kept her inside for a week, because the dust was worse in the turnout areas (sandy arena and round pens) than in her stall. Then I remembered the vet told me about Heave Ho months ago. I found it on Amazon, the sugar free apple 30 day supply, so I could have it delivered ASAP, even though I was afraid she wouldn’t eat it. It came in on Friday and I started the loading dose, morning and evening scoop in a mash I made her. She was actually eating it! After the first day, I mixed it into her morning & evening grain dry. With my schedule I cannot always offer a morning and evening mash, so I mixed it into her grain since the barn gives that to her in the morning and evening. Even dry and in her grain, still she was eating it! Anyways, I started the Heave Ho on Friday. The VERY next day, Saturday, I took my other horse out for a ride and could hear her back in her stall neighing the entire time. She’s never been like that, so I had a feeling it meant she wanted to break out of stall jail and was feeling good. After I brought my other horse back, I brought her to turnout despite my hesitation with how dusty it still was. The second I dropped the halter she took off- bucking, farting, full Nascar speed. She didn’t stop for 20 minutes, and she never coughed a single time. I was shocked. The only thing I changed was adding the Heave Ho. Sunday and Monday (yesterday) she was also great, back to being herself, and she’s quiet as a church mouse today. I usually try not to get my hopes up for supplements, and based on the label I figured I was looking at 14 days or a week at best to see some effects. Nope, the very next day it hit her! She is almost done with the loading dose, and I will be keeping her on Heave Ho forever now. I’m hoping one day I can stop her antihistamine pills, maybe over winter, or we will see how this continues to play out. Thanks Heave Ho!(PS, in my opinion, Heave Ho is a GREAT bang for your buck. The other two supplements I tried a) she hated the taste of and b) didn’t work. They were $30. You get what you pay for! Antihistamine pills are costing us nearly $150 a month as well)

It works if your horse will eat it
Try to start smaller than suggested if your horse is picky. It worked when nothing else did but it’s definitely not easy to convince a horse to eat. My older gelding started to cough really badly after all the nearby fires. I tried several products before this one without much success. then the cold rainy weather hit and he started to get worse coughing more often. I decided to give this a try and it only took one jar to clear up the problem. it’s yet to come back months later… but it was a hassle none the less. I had to feed less than the recommended amount in his senior feed and he still fought it. I had to leave him with his food for hours for him to finish it. Normally this horse is far from picky and I give him different natural supplements even garlic. It’s rare for him to snub something. Eventually while giving less than the recommended dose and waiting forever for him to eat it he actually would finish it so that was a plus. Yet if I have the recommended dose he wouldn’t touch his food. So if you can get through the struggle it does help. I’m sure it would have worked faster if he’d eat the full dose.

Expensive failure
This review is for the sugar-free apple flavor; my horse is insulin resistant. My horse objects to this supplement put into his grain ration. I started with a small sprinkle of it so he could get used to it and he refuses to eat it. I’ve tried several times and the last time he grabbed the bowl and flung it across the stall.This horse normally has no objection to any supplements to his small grain ration. He literally has eaten everything else and is normally not picky.This was a very expensive failure.

My horse won’t eat it
I was hopeful, because my horse has horrible asthma/heaves, but he won’t go near this supplement. He is not a picky eater, but he leaves his grain untouched if this is in there. Wet or dry, doesn’t matter.