The simple feed room

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The idea is a few products that together cover almost every horse. Here is the philosophy behind it, the six core products, and a table that translates your horse's situation into product and amount, so you can do the maths instead of guessing.

Six products cover a whole yard. For one horse, three or four are enough. The foundation is balancers, fibre mash and salt or electrolytes, on top of good-quality forage.

Our fibre mash has no added vitamins or minerals. That way they come from one source, and you can always work out what your horse is actually getting.

The philosophy behind the simple feed room

The philosophy behind Regulator Complete is to make it easy for you to put together a feeding plan with a few products that cover the needs of the vast majority of horses. The foundation of the simple feed room is just six products: balancers, fibre mash and salt or electrolytes.

It is important to stress that a good feeding plan requires good-quality forage. Hard feed builds on top of the forage; it does not replace it.

Depending on your horse and its needs, three to four Regulator Complete products in your feed room may be all you need. If you have several horses with different needs, you can feed them all with the six core products.

The six core products

Product Role in the feed room
Every Day Happy Vitamins, minerals and herbs for most horses in light to moderate work
Peak Performance The same role for hard work and rehabilitation. Already contains RC O3 Algeolie and RC Movement
+Fiber Mash Fibre with no added vitamins or minerals. For daily feeding and for stomachs that need to settle
+Energy Fiber Mash Fibre with more energy. For demanding work and for the horse that needs to gain weight
+Salt Daily salt in the feed bucket. Horses have no salt reserves to draw on

Only one source of vitamins and minerals

Lots of different sources make it hard to calculate and leave you unsure whether your horse is getting the correct daily dose of vitamins and minerals. Two products that each contain zinc sounds harmless, but you cannot tell from the feed bucket how much your horse is getting in total.

That is why our fibre mash has no added vitamins or minerals. In the simple feed room we prioritise a clear overview of where the added vitamins and minerals come from, so there is only one place to calculate from.

Situation, product and amount

The table translates your horse's situation into product and amount. All figures are grams per 100 kg bodyweight per day as dry weight, and they are the Ekstra dosage, which is our starting point when you do not have a forage analysis.

Your horse's situation Product Amount per 100 kg per day
Light work or turnout, 0-14 years Every Day Happy 65 g
Moderate work, 0-14 years Every Day Happy 80 g
Demanding work or rehabilitation Peak Performance 106 g
Senior 15 years and over, light work Every Day Happy or Peak Performance 80 g
Senior 15 years and over, moderate work Every Day Happy or Peak Performance 97 g
Pure vitamins and minerals only, light work Supreme Minerals 15-20 g
Moderate work, in-foal mare, senior Supreme Minerals 20 g
Intensive work, lactation 1-3 months Supreme Minerals 20-35 g
Foals 2-5 months Every Day Happy or Peak Performance 1 g per kg foal. With Supreme Minerals: 0.5 g per kg foal
Fibre, light work +Fiber Mash 50 g
Fibre, moderate work +Fiber Mash 150 g
Free faecal water, wet farts, overweight +Fiber Mash 200-500 g
Fibre with energy, moderate work +Energy Fiber Mash 100 g
Fibre with energy, demanding work +Energy Fiber Mash 300 g
Horse needs to gain weight +Energy Fiber Mash 200-500 g
All horses, every day +Salt 10 g for light work, 15-17 g for moderate work and 22-27 g for demanding work per 100 kg on top of Every Day Happy or Peak Performance (13 / 18-20 / 25-30 g in total with Supreme Minerals). Heat, pregnancy and lactation increase the requirement.
Stallion Every Day Happy or Peak Performance At least 10% more than the chart states

Multiply by your horse's current weight. A 500 kg horse multiplies by 5, a 300 kg pony by 3. If you do not know the weight: girth in metres cubed, times 80. A girth of 1.7 m gives 1.7 × 1.7 × 1.7 × 80, so roughly 392 kg.

Soaking: +Fiber Mash 1 part to 5 parts water, +Energy Fiber Mash 1 part to 4 parts water. Leave the mix to stand for 10 to 20 minutes. The full answer is in Feeding FAQ.

The page's original product selection matrix with 14 horse types and the 6 products is empty on the current site. Only the key exists, i.e. the markers for "our recommendation", "your choice" and "not recommended for this type of horse". The table above is built from the feeding charts' own figures, not from the empty matrix. The matrix will only be restored once Ingeborg has confirmed what was in the cells.

Dosage for free faecal water, wet farts and condition

+Fiber Mash for free faecal water, wet farts or overweight: 200-500 g per 100 kg per day. Once droppings have been stable for 14 days, reduce by 20% every other week.

+Energy Fiber Mash for the underweight horse: 200-500 g per 100 kg per day. For demanding work, use +Energy Fiber Mash rather than +Fiber Mash, as otherwise the energy requirement will not be met.

Should the mash be soaked

We recommend soaking fibre mash, but it can be fed dry if your horse does not like wet feed. One exception: if your horse is prone to choke, always soak it.

  • The water can be cold or lukewarm, depending on what your horse needs
  • If your horse prefers the mash thinner, add more water as needed
  • If you add Every Day Happy or Peak Performance to the mash, do not increase the amount of water
  • Many horses prefer a mash as thin as soup rather than thick like porridge

Why soaked feed is absorbed better

Fibre mash soaked in water together with the vitamin and mineral mix and salt or electrolytes acts as a storage reservoir that travels through your horse's gut. The transfer of nutrients from gut to bloodstream is optimised, because your horse gets the chance to absorb them at the pace it needs.

Studies show that when vitamins and minerals are fed without fibre, they pass through the horse's gut too quickly. As a result, the horse does not get the full benefit of them.

The other benefits of soaking

Area What soaking does
Fluid balance Increases your horse's water intake and reduces the risk of dehydration and electrolyte depletion. This helps during hard training, sweat loss, long-distance travel and other stressful situations
Very hungry horses and ponies The feed takes up more volume and gives longer licking and eating time, so your horse settles
Stable environment Keeps dust down in the hard feed
Digestion Stabilises digestion, both because the mash contains fluid-filled fibre and because the feed passes through at a steadier pace

The feed glossary and the most common questions about feeding now have their own page: Feeding FAQ.

Not sure what your feed room should look like? Book a feed consultation and we will put it together with you.