Feeding Horses for Warmth

Winter is well and truly on its way!  Our horses' nutritional needs change when the chilly weather arrives, so we asked Peter Pryde - from Prydes EasiFeed - about the best feed to help them stay warm during the extra cold, wet and windy winter days.

Peter advises, "Feeding fibre is best on days where you want to give your horse some extra feed to keep him warm. Fibre is digested through a process of fermentation in the horse's hindgut. A by-product of this fermentation process is heat. The more fibre they ferment the more heat they produce, so on those really miserable, cold days, giving your horse extra hay, chaff or a high fibre feed like Pryde's EasiFibre will help keep them warm from the inside out."

EASIFIBRE - ALL NATURAL DIGESTIBLE FIBRE AND LUCERNE LEAF MEAL

High fibre, non-grain feed that provides you with a true and safe alternative to grain feeding.

• Provides a ‘cool' source of energy to support moderate to high work loads or weight gain, without the risks associated with feeding cereal grains, including acidosis, laminitis and undesirable behaviour.
• Easily digested in the hindgut, it is a more natural feed for horses and can be used to replace part or all of the grain component in your horse's ration.
• Contains absolutely no grain and has a very low sugar and starch content of less than 10%, making it suitable for laminitic, insulin resistant or Cushing's horses, as well as horses suffering with gastric ulcers and tying up.

 

CLICK HERE to find out more about Easifibre and HERE to read about the full EasiFeed range.