FAQ about feeding

+Fiber Mash: use 1 part mash to 5 parts water, for example 250 g to 1.25 litres.

+Energy Fiber Mash: use 1 part mash to 4 parts water, for example 250 g to 1 litre.

The water can be cold or lukewarm, depending on what your horse needs. Leave the mixture to stand for 10 to 20 minutes. If your horse prefers a thinner mash, add more water as needed.

If you add Every Day Happy or Peak Performance to the mash, you should not increase the amount of water.

The amounts in our dosage charts are always dry weight. So weigh the feed before you mix it with water.

Yes. If your horse doesn't like wet feed, you can feed the mash dry, but we recommend soaking it.

If your horse is prone to choke, always soak the mash.

Fibre mash soaked in water with a vitamin and mineral mix plus salt and electrolytes acts as a storage depot that travels through the horse's digestive tract.

The transfer of nutrients from gut to bloodstream is optimised because the horse can absorb them at the pace it needs. Studies show that vitamins and minerals fed without fibre pass through the gut too quickly, so the horse doesn't have time to get the full benefit of them.

It increases the horse's water intake and so benefits its fluid balance. It reduces the risk of dehydration and electrolyte depletion, and it benefits the horse during hard training, fluid loss from sweating, long journeys or other stressful situations.

Very hungry horses and ponies become calmer, because the feed fills them up and gives longer slurping and eating time. Feel free to make the mash sloppy and thin with plenty of water. Many horses like it better when it's thin like a soup rather than thick like porridge.

Soaking also binds the dust in the hard feed and stabilises digestion, both because the mash contains fluid-filled fibres and because the feed passes through the system more slowly.

Feed terms can easily cause confusion. Several types of feed are essentially the same, and there are no rules for when to use which term.

Forage is grass, hay or haylage. Also called roughage.

Forage is grass, hay or haylage. Also called forage.

Bucket feed is a collective term for the feed your horse gets in the manger, for example hard feed, complete feed or supplementary feed.

Hard feed is a compound feed with a high energy value, i.e. high in calories. It often consists of vitamins, minerals, protein and carbohydrate or cereals such as oats, barley, fibre and muesli. Also called complete feed.

Complete feed is the same as hard feed, with the same content and the same high calorie content.

Supplementary feed is a concentrated feed with a low energy value, i.e. low in calories, and often consists of vitamins, minerals and protein. Supplementary feed doesn't contain carbohydrate or cereals such as oats, barley, fibre and muesli. Every Day Happy and Peak Performance are both supplementary feeds.