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Like minerals, adequate vitamin intake is essential to a well-balanced diet, and again, like minerals, a horses daily requirement for vitamins can vary with age, level of exercise, reproductive status, health and stress. A deficiency of Vitamin A can lead to night-vision blindness interestingly, beta-carotene which the body turns into Vitamin A is readily found in carrots, so there is some truth to that old wives tale about carrots helping you see in the dark The B group vitamins including B1 -- thiamin, B2 riboflavin, B3 niacin, B5 pantothenic acid and B12 provide a range of health benefits, including the metabolism of carbohydrates, proteins, fats and amino acids and blood cell formation. Vitamin C is perhaps the best known of all vitamins, acting as an anti-oxidant, as well as assisting in iron take-up and the utilisation of folic acid. Vitamins tend to be destroyed by feed processing and storage, so levels may be low in modern horse diets and a balanced multivitamin supplement m
