If your horse is exhibiting symptoms of discomfort or illness after eating, he may be suffering from intolerance or sensitivity. This can be triggered by food or non-food substances present in his immediate environment.

While allergies are usually more severe than intolerances, undiagnosed intolerances can still affect your horse’s quality of life. Symptoms of intolerances are also often more difficult to detect because symptoms can change over time.

Be in better control of your horse’s health with our Horse Intolerance Test, which analyses 44 food and 29 non-food items.

Horses can develop intolerances and sensitivities over time. These often result in symptoms like digestive issues or skin problems. Sometimes, if the symptoms are undetectable, you may notice that the animal becomes more irritable than usual.

Even though they are less severe than allergies, they can affect your horse’s comfort and wellbeing. In some cases, they can make the horse more vulnerable to other serious health conditions.

If you can’t determine the culprit behind your horse’s symptoms or mood changes, it is a good idea to have him tested for intolerances. Here’s a list of the food and non-food substances covered by our Horse Intolerance Test:

Food Items

Apple Juice	Banana	Beets (beetroot)
Buttermilk	Cabbage – Green	Caraway
Cheddar	Cod	Cranberry juice
Dates	Duck	Egg yolk
Fig	Grapes (White)	Halibut
Honey	Kiwis	Lamb
Lobster	Macadamia Nuts	Maize
Maple Syrup	Milk lactose	Mint (Fresh)
Orange juice	Oyster sauce	Pineapple juice
Pork	Potatoes	Rabbit – meat
Raisins	Raspberries	Red Leicester
Rice – Brown	Sesame seed	Sole
Soya	Spinach	Sunflower oil
Swede	Trout (Brown)	Venison
Wheat, whole grain	Whitefish

 

Non-Food Items

Barley (Hordeum vulgare)	Bee	Buckwheat (Taraxum duplidens)
Buttercup	Cotton – plant	Dandelion (Taraxum duplidens)
Dust	Elder (Sambucus nigra)	Goats
Goldenrod (Solidago virgaurea)	Hamsters	Hazel (Corylus avellana)
Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus)	Japanese Millet	Lupine (Lupinus polyphyllus)
Peanut plant	Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne)	Pine (Pinus spp.)
Plantain (Plantago major)	Primrose (Primulus)	Rabbits – animal
Ragweed (Ambrosia elatior)	Red fescue (Festuca rubra)	Sheep’s wool
Tall oat grass (Arrhenaterium elatius)	Wild oat (Avena fatua)	Willow
Wool	Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium)

The Horse Intolerance Test is a laboratory-based genetic test that detects your pet’s sensitivity to common substances that may be present in your home.

To carry out this test, you will only need to provide your horse’s hair samples. For safety reasons, we recommend that you take the hair sample from the mane. You may also take a sample from the horse’s grooming brush, but ensure that there is no cross-contamination between animals.

We will not be sending out a test kit, but we will send you a detailed guide on how to collect your horse’s hair sample. Please follow the specified instructions for our laboratory to be able to analyze the samples accurately.

• Download the Sample Collection Kit -Make Your Own at Home
• Downloand the Sample Collection Sheet Hair Collection
• Download the Animal DNA Testing Submission Form

After you send your samples back to our laboratory, you can expect to receive the results via email in 3 to 5 business days.

The report contains all the information you need to identify and understand your horse’s intolerance. Aside from this report, we will also send you a comprehensive guide in eliminating other possible intolerances from your horse’s diet. 

The test determines the substances that your horse is intolerant to. Most of the time, to address this issue, you will only need to remove the trigger substances from your horse’s diet and environment.

In some cases, however, intolerances may require treatment. We recommend that you visit your veterinarian to discuss your horse’s treatment plan.

The price of a single Horse Intolerance Test is $129.

If you plan to purchase multiple tests, you can enjoy a $10 discount per subsequent test. A second or third intolerance test will then only cost $119 per test.

We offer an entire line of Animal DNA Tests, which can assess your pets’ health or genetic lineage. Some of these services include our Dog Allergy Testing, Cat Intolerance Test, and CatCheck (Feline) Genetic Disease Test.

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