How to Use Our Products
One mix.
More uses than
you’d expect.
Flavors Hydration Mix is electrolyte-free and food-safe. That means you can use it a lot of different ways — and it works for a lot of different problems. Here’s how.
Step-by-Step Guides
Pick your problem.
We wrote the protocol.
Each of these is a full how-to — not a product page.
The Water Buffet Method
Set out multiple flavors alongside plain water. The bucket that drains fastest tells you what your horse needs. No guessing, no forcing.
Read the guide → 02Entice a Picky Eater
Your horse didn’t stop eating. They stopped trusting what’s in front of them. Here’s how to fix that without changing your feed program.
Read the guide → 03Mask Medications
The medication smell is the problem — not the taste. Aromatic masking works before your horse gets close enough to object.
Read the guide → 04Enrichment Projects
Lick mats, frozen treats, slow feeders, treat balls. Practical enrichment that takes minutes to make and keeps a horse occupied for much longer.
Read the guide → 05Bake Healthy Horse Treats
The ONE-pocket treat recipe. Everything you need fits in one pocket. Baked in 20 minutes. Safe for horses, dogs, goats, and yes — Frank the cat.
Read the guide →Five ways to use it.
Start with whatever problem you’re trying to solve. The mix will meet you there.
01
Hydration
The lever that moves almost everything else.
Horses are famously bad at drinking — especially when they’re traveling, stressed, or in a new environment. Flavors encourages consistent intake without electrolytes, which means no sodium loading, no metabolic juggling.
- Add to water bucket at home to build the habit
- Keep a pouch in your trailer bag — familiar taste = familiar intake away from home
- Gut motility follows hydration. Colic risk drops when horses drink consistently.
02
Picky Eaters
Don’t change your macros. Change your flavors.
When a horse goes off their feed, the instinct is to switch feeds. But if your current feed is nutritionally correct, that’s a problem. Flavors lets you add palatability — a little top-dress, a little drizzle — without touching the formula.
- Top-dress dry over grain or hay pellets
- Mix into a small amount of warm water and drizzle over feed
- Rotate flavors — some horses want novelty, not just sweetness
03
Medicine Compliance
Don’t fight compliance. Make it actually enjoyable.
Better compliance is better outcomes — and that goes for the medical plan itself. If your horse dreads the paste tube or refuses the powder, you’re losing ground before you’ve even started. Make the medicine moment something they come looking for.
- Mix powdered medications into flavored water or top-dress
- Use as a delivery vehicle for daily supplements that get refused
- Introduce the flavor before the medication so it’s already trusted
04
Stall Rest & Enrichment
Help your horse pass the time.
A bored horse on stall rest is a horse finding its own entertainment — and that’s rarely good. Flavors-based enrichment gives them something to work at, tastes good, and is safe for a horse that can’t be moving around.
- Mix into lick mats with a small amount of water or binder
- Freeze in molds for hanging treat balls
- Use as a hay-stuffed toy flavor boost
05
Healthy Farm Treats
Low-cal. Safe for the whole property.
ONE-pocket treats that work for your horse and everyone else at the barn. Food-safe, low calorie, no added sugars. You can make treats in bulk and hand them out without doing macro math every time.
- Bake into treat shapes with oat flour and applesauce
- Mold into ice cubes for summer enrichment
- Share with goats, minis, donkeys — it all works
Enrichment ideas that actually work.
If your horse is on stall rest, recovering, or just easily bored, here are the formats that hold their attention.
Lick Mats
Mix one scoop of Flavors with just enough water to make a thick paste. Spread on a silicone lick mat. You can also add a small amount of unsweetened applesauce to thicken. Freeze for a longer-lasting activity.
Frozen Hanging Treats
Mix Flavors with water and pour into a large mold or bucket. Freeze solid, then hang in the stall with a lead rope through the center. Especially good in summer. Carrot Cooldown and Mint Condition are fan favorites for this.
Treat Balls & Slow Feeders
Dampen hay pellets with flavored water before stuffing into a treat ball or slow feeder. Makes the boring stuff more interesting. Rotate flavors to keep it novel — horses notice when it’s always the same thing.
A few actual recipes.
Nothing complicated. You probably have everything you need already.
Stall Rest Lick Mat
Enrichment · 5 min prep
- 1 scoop Flavors (any flavor) + 2–3 tbsp water — mix to a paste
- Optional: add 1 tbsp unsweetened applesauce for extra stick
- Spread onto silicone lick mat
- Serve fresh or freeze 2+ hours for extended activity
Summer Ice Block
Enrichment · Freeze overnight
- Mix 2–3 scoops Flavors into a gallon of water
- Pour into a large bucket or ring mold
- Add apple slices or carrot pieces if desired — freeze solid
- Hang in stall with a rope through center hole (if mold) or set in a pan
Baked Farm Treats
Treats · 25 min
- Mix 2 cups oat flour + 1 scoop Flavors + ½ cup applesauce
- Add water 1 tbsp at a time until dough forms
- Roll out and cut into shapes — or roll into balls
- Bake 350°F for 15–18 min until firm. Cool completely before feeding.
Medicine Disguise Mix
Compliance · 2 min
- Add powdered medication or supplement to ¼ cup warm water
- Stir in ½ scoop Flavors until dissolved
- Drizzle over grain or hay pellets — mix in
- For extra coverage: top-dress a pinch of dry Flavors powder over the whole thing
The Short Version
One product. Five uses.
All from one pocket.
If you need to explain it to someone in the barn aisle, here it is.
Hydrate
1 tablespoon per 2 gallons. No salt. No electrolytes. No copper. No added sugar. Just a flavor your horse chose — because they liked it.
Entice
Dry feed topper for the horse who suddenly decides they hate what they loved yesterday. Sprinkle it on. Watch them reconsider their life choices.
Mask
Medicine compliance. Mix it in. If your horse has ever dramatically rejected a supplement the moment you introduced it — this is for you.
Enrich
Lick mat slurry. Frozen hanging treats. Enrichment that takes 45 seconds to make and keeps a horse occupied for 20 minutes. Freeze it in a cup with hay sticking out. Done.
Treat
The ONE-pocket treat recipe — because you literally need one pocket to carry everything to the barn. See below.
The treat that fits
in one pocket.
Two tablespoons of Flavors. That’s the only special ingredient. Everything else is already in your barn.
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp Flavors (your flavor of choice)
- 2 tbsp ground flaxseed
- 1 cup oat flour
- ¼–⅓ cup water
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients until a dough forms
- Roll out and cut into shapes — or just roll into balls
- Bake at 350°F for 20–25 minutes
- Cool completely before feeding
Safe for horses, dogs, cattle, goats, chickens, and cats. (Frank included.)
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