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Canine Formula

"As a veterinarian, I am exposed to many new supplements. Most of them fail to meet their claims. Health-Gard is a new product that really has meet their claims. Six months I introduced Health-Gard into my kennel with great results. Prior to using Health-Gard, I experienced problems in 3-6 week old pups with transient diarrhea. The episodes lasted 2-3 days and, although the mortality was low, the pups experienced weigh loss and stress. The occurrence rate was about 10 percent. With the use of Health-Gard, that rate has decreased to less than one percent. My pups are healthier, and reach tattoo age weighing 2-5 lbs heavier. I feel that this product is improving the size, quality, and health of my pups."
Marty Tanner, DVM



Having 25 years of experience in greyhound racing kennels throughout the country, I have seen and had to combat plenty of kennel sickness. When viruses come to a racetrack, all efforts to safeguard the well being of the greyhounds does not prevent these dreaded viruses from traveling from kennel to kennel.

At a great expense to the kennel owners/trainers/and greyhound owners, scratches and performances lost through the lack of entries, due to sickness or coughing, the tracks themselves lose much revenue.
Quarantines, if put in effect at early onset, might and can stop the spread of a virus. When quarantine is initiated, dogs cannot be moved in or out of a track causing congestion. Farmers and dog haulers cannot transport to and from those racetracks.

So this year, being no exception, what with shots/nasal medication/sulfa drugs, etc. showing no effect, I needed to try a different approach.

Ed Gardner contacted me describing a formula called Health-Gard. Like most trainers, I was very apprehensive in trying a new product. After trying this bacteria-fighting agent, I was very impressed. Having a 62-crate kennel filled with maidens and approximately 50 of those greyhounds under two years of age, for me, it was a lifesaver.

I used Health-Gard in conjunction with cleaning materials -- in mop buckets and by spraying the inside kennel walls. Health-Gard was also added to the wash water for the feed pans and sprayed in the turn out pens daily. Health-Gard was added to the first turn out water buckets too.

As the sickness spread through most kennels in the compound, it never got to me. My active list was always 45 to 50 and by the end of July 2003, we find our kennel 2nd in the standings. We believe Health-Gard enhanced the immune system of our greyhounds.

"No one wants to see closed racetracks because of cancellations, so just maybe Health-Gard is the answer. Thank you, Ed Gardner"

by Malcom McAllister
Trainer McAllister Kennels
Gulf Greyhound Park, Texas
Aug. 1, 2003


Equine Formula

Hoby Kight, Horse Trainer, Summerfield, Florida said, “The only thing I did different to my health program was add ½ oz. of ‘HEALTH-GARD’ to the drinking water daily”.

Five of the top thriteen horses sold at the 2005 Calder Sale had the same thing in common; they were on HEALTH –GARD. This all natural supplement helps quickly build the immune, urinary, respiratory, and digestive systems.

At the 2006 Calder sale, Hoby sold 11 horses for $1,965,000. The biggest sale for Hoby was this year, when he sold seven head for $4.2 million.

Also, Hoby was agent for the top priced horse, a Storm Cat X Safari colt, which brought $2.5 Million.

Since 2002, while using HEALTH-GARD, Hoby has sold over $14 million in stock.


Tropical Bird Formula

Ed Minvielle from SIEGEL'S AND SONS, Pigeon supplier

One supplement that's been getting very strong positive feedback from fanciers all around the country for several years is Health-Gard, a pro-biotic water-additive formula. In fact, we have had negative feedback from no one using the product during the nearly four years that we have carried Health-Gard, while we have heard hundreds of personal testimonials about its effectiveness. We have used it in our own lofts since the 2002 breeding season, and we have been consistently gratified with the results in our babies.

We send many birds to a number of out-of-area races, and the babies that are raised by our breeders taking Health-Gard do not succumb to many of the diseases that affect other birds of the same age in the same lofts. Parent birds given Health-Gard seem to pass on to the babies a high resistance to viral infections for many months after the product is removed from the diet, and racing birds have shown a greater resistance to disease. Remember, pigeons kept confined in a loft, especially during the cold winter months, are not capable of getting all the minerals and trace elements that their bodies require from the feed alone, so supplements are not only wise, but necessary.

The concept behind Health-Gard is to use large doses of naturally occurring micro-organisms to help correct or control health problems in our pigeons. We use Health-Gard in our own lofts during the breeding season every day on our breeders from the beginning of January until the end of March, which encompasses our first two rounds. The Health-Gard is given in addition to our regular supplements like Pigeon Power. Each year, we send out nearly 200 youngsters from our first two rounds to other lofts to race, either in futurities or in convention races, or to partner lofts to be tested. After a couple of months, some of the lofts that I've sent birds to will begin to report sicknesses like Cercle Virus, but the overwhelming majority of our babies remain healthy, even when there are babies of the same age from other breeders dying all around them.

Given all the circumstances, "I conclude that Health-Gard makes the difference."


Pigeon Formula

In an article recently published by "Racing Pigeon Digest" and written by George Kittredge, Mike Sherwood reveals that he uses Health-Gard.

Mike said to the auther "George, you can't write an article on me and pigeon flying without mentioning Paul Demers, my good friend and mentor in this sport for the last 34 years."

"A few years back, Paul recommended that I use Health-Gard as part of my health program." Since then, Sherwood Lofts has taken home many concourse honors. Average speed, Champion loft and Champion birds are just a few of these concourse awards.

When interviewed by Ed Gardner of Health-Gard, Paul Demers stated that 10 of the top 20 SNE Combine Flyers all use Health-Gard in their program with obvious success. Paul Demers himself has done increasingly well taking the runner up spot in the 2002 NEW ENGLAND OPEN, won that same race the next year in 2003 and placed second and third in 2004.

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by John Ciolek
“Jay-Cee Flying Loft” of Hamburg, New York

“A magic formula"? A health potion? Who knows? All I know is that when I used a concoction presented to me by Ed Gardner called HEALTH-GARD for the 2001 Old Bird season, my birds looked healthier than ever, and kept that way for the entire season. Just one tablespoon in a gallon of water every day maintained a glow in my loft. We had birds come home in multiple drops and on tough races the recovery of these athletes was exceptional. We had a very good old bird season and the birds performed well.

We used our regular maintaining program to start off and only twice during the races did we treat for cocci and canker and that only because we were a little skeptical of the “magic formula”, which to my understanding, is composed of all natural ingredients. When the young bird season came along I naturally had to have some more of what Ed had to offer. Not surprisingly, the results were the same.

My loft is located right amongst the trees shading the birds all summer. Keeping them in good health has always been a great challenge until now. This stuff won’t make champions out of chumps. You still have to have the “right stuff” and a decent program, but along with this “magic formula” called HEALTH-GARD your chances of competing with the guys on top will improve.”




Human Formula

April 8, 2011
Hello Ed,

Well I want to purchase another case of this wonderful water.  I have been talking about it a lot and I think I am getting these folks motivated to purchase it.  Tommy and I are feeling so much better now that we just can't imagine life without this water.

I hope that the purchase is still **** for the case.  I believe as I talk about it and more start to take the water we will be selling this alot.  I am finding out that people our age don't like feeling old.  They don't really feel old but just can't seem to get motivated.

Tommy has said several times that he has seen a big difference in me and I can see a big difference in him.  I hope that my friends that see me and they see that I'm not just sitting around and have energy more than I have had in several years, will try it.

I have gotten to fit in a pair of jeans that has been hanging in my closet for 5 years today.   I believe this water has really helped.  I will be bragging about this to my friends and hope that this may motivate them that way.  A woman always wants to hope they can lose that middle bulge we get as we age.  I think this water can help do that.

Thank you again,
Judy Biehle
Georgetown, TX


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