Feeding Benefits

Feeding Instructions

Every horse is different and will react differently to different feeds and ingredients and need different minerals and vitamins so it is important when ever you make any changes to integrate the change slowly into the ration and monitor any changes in your horse, adjusting the quantities of the ingredients to make sure you horse is receiving everything it needs.

How Much to Feed

To receive the full benefits from any of Fiber Fresh Feeds horse feed products we recommends building up to around 2-3 kgs per day. You may need to adjust the other ingredients and supplements in the horse ration to make sure your horse has a balanced diet.

Different Feeds for Different Needs

FiberPro

Contains 100% Alfalfa with a sprinkle of molasses. This moist nutritional feed is well well-suited for conditioning especially for the growth of youngsters and sales preparation. FiberPro is and excellent source of protein.

FiberMix

A 50/50 blend of freshly harvested oat crop (plant fibre, captured grain) and Alfalfa lightly mixed with molasses. This great feed rich in soluble carbohydrates can be easily absorbed and utilized offering the horse energy and stamina. It is mostly used in racehorse training, endurance, cross country and show jumping where extra energy is required.

FiberSure

A combination of Alfalfa, Ryegrass, and soft moist captured grains mixed with a full range of vitamins and minerals and lightly laced with molasses. It is this soft moist captured grain, high in soluble carbohydrate that is the key to providing safe and sustainable energy. This is an outstanding conditioner providing unparalleled performance for more active horses.

FiberEzy

A 50/50 blend of Alfalfa and pure New Zealand Ryegrass lightly laced with molasses. HorseHage can be safely feed in the knowledge it has been carefully selected from strains of grasses that will eliminate any concerns of staggers that horses can encounter when feeding on pasture or hay. Due to the higher energy content of ryegrass HorseHage will provide working horses that extra boost when put under pressure.

Benefits of Ingredients

Alfalfa / Lucerne

Lucerne is high in protein, vitamins A & E, and high concentrations of calcium & Magnesium. Fed to horses as part of their daily ration Lucerne can provide horses with many of the minerals and nutrients they needs and can provide benefits such as:

• Lucerne also contains appreciable amounts of the essential amino acids lysine and typically low phosphorous.
• The high protein level in Lucerne can help horses recover from laminitis and prevent horses from entering into negative energy balance which could slow the healing process.
• Using high quality Lucerne will enable the level of concentrate feed required per ration to be lowered. In turn reducing the amount of grain a horse has to digest lowering the potential for colic and other digestive problems.
• Lucerne can also provide young horses with some of the calcium requirements they need for growth.
• The palatability of the Lucerne and the level of protein can also assist with weight gain if feed the appropriate amount as part of a daily ration.

Oats

The starch in Oats is easier to digest than in corn and less excesses overflows into the upper intestine. Making oats the safe grain to feed to horses. There are many other benefits to feeding your horse oats such as: If fed to nurturing Mares can help with milk production. There is less starch in oats than in other grains such as corn. With Oats containing around 45 – 55% starch compared to 60-70% found in other Grain.

• Oats fed the correct quantity for the energy requirements based on quantity and type of work a horse is required to do, can be less likely to heat a horse than other grain due to higher digestibility.
• Oats can provide a horse with some of the endurance energy.
• Oats can increase a horses alertness
• Oats can enable you to increase the protein intake of young horses etc without increasing the size to the ration.
• Oats are a Good source of energy

Ryegrass

Ryegrass has a higher sugar content than other grasses often used as forage and endophyte free ryegrass such as Tabu (Ryegrass used by Fiber Fresh Feeds) can help provide a horse with the extra energy required when it is being worked. Some of the other benefits of endophytes free ryegrass are:

• Assists with a horses digestive processes
• High Palatability
• High levels of total usable carbohydrate.
• High in Fiber which complements other feeds

Opening and Using the Product

Opening & Using the product

1. Using a Knife cut across the top of Fiber Fresh bag where it is marked with a dotted line.
   
   

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2. Starting from ¼ of the way down the bag cut open the bag on the side to reveal one corner of the product.
   
   

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3. Then cut open the other side.
   
   

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4. Fold down the now open part of the bag to expose the top portion of the product.
   
   

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5. Starting from the top push on the product from the centre out to Break off the required portion, leaving the rest of the product compact and in the bag.
   
   

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Storage of the Product

1. Once you have pulled out what you need from the bag move to step 2.
   
   
2. Fold one of the cut flaps down and tuck it down into the remainder of the bag.
   
   

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3. Then fold the other flap overtop. If you wish you can also put a strip of tap overtop.
   
   

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4. Turn the bag on to the open end to minimize the open air that is able to get to the product.
   
   

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5. Once opened store Fiber Fresh product in a cool area out of direct sunlight.
   
   

Yeast

The product is full of naturally occurring yeast which aids the digestive processes and is also beneficial to the animal. This yeast can sometimes colonize into a single area which can form a small white patch on the product. This is often confused with mould, however it is important to point out that this is not mould at all and is full of vitamin B reconfirming the benefits within the product.

Although this is safe and even beneficial for your horse, some horses will turn their noses up at something that is different to their normal feed. We suggest discarding the small patch of yeast and feed the rest of the bag as you normally would.


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Damaged Product

All Fiber Fresh bags are vacuum sealed so the air and contaminants can not get to the product. It is this vacuum sealing and lack of air of the product that enables to the product to retain it’s freshness for a year or more. However if a bag is damaged in anyway and air is able to get to the product this will speed up the fermentation process, mould will develop and the product will become bad. This degrading of the product will only occur if the bag has become damaged.

Rodent Damage

Although rodents are not attracted by the Fiber Fresh Feeds damaging of bags can be caused by Rodents nibbling at the exterior plastic to sharpen their teeth. Fiber Fresh Feeds has a stringent bating program at the factory and often call in on our trucking depot to make sure they are also maintaining their baits, to minimizing rodent damaging occurring.

Rodents are quite a normal part of the animal life in rural areas and it is important to store any Fiber Fresh bags were they will not be accessible to rodents or have a strong rodent deterrent in place to minimize rodents getting to the product.

Damage in Transport

When Transporting bags from the store, to or from competition or shows it is important to take care when loading the product into your vehicle. Make sure any bags are secure to minimize them moving around or fall where the bag may become ripped or damaged.

When loading the bags into the vehicle make sure the area is fee of sharp objects such as stones, nails, tools etc.

Storage

When storing the product, once again try to keep the area free of objects which may damage the any bags and minimize the likelihood of objects or other materials been store on top of the bags.