Looking for supplementary feed to maintain topline and keep skin and coat looking healthy and glossy heading into autumn? British Horse Feeds Cooked Linseed is a nutritious feed made from 100% whole linseed, ideal for performance, condition, skin and coat and wellbeing. Cooked Linseed contains high oil content with high levels of omega-3, omega-6 and omega-9 fatty acids … [Read more...]
Soaked Feeds with Guaranteed Hydration
Speedi-Beet and Fibre-Beet from British Horse Feeds are both highly nutritious beet pulp feeds that are soaked providing your horse with guaranteed hydration throughout the summer months. Speedi-Beet is an ideal fibre source to maintain a healthy gut function and provides quality protein sources to aid muscle development and function. It is also starch free and unmolassed, … [Read more...]
Spring Feeding with Speedi-Beet and Fibre-Beet
Speedi-Beet and Fibre-Beet from British Horse Feeds are super fibre feeds that are ideal to be fed to horses and ponies prone to laminitis as part of a balanced diet. Speedi-Beet is a highly nutritious micronized (cooked) beet pulp feed which provides an excellent source of digestible fibre and is ideal for equines prone to laminitis as part of a balanced diet. Due to its … [Read more...]
SUGAR IN THE HORSE’S DIET: WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW
British Horse Feeds consultant nutritionist, Dr Tom Shurlock explains sugar in the horse’s diet and how it impacts on their health. Sugar; a term that we all know, but probably know very little about. We dress it up with terms like non-structural carbohydrate, soluble carbohydrate etc. but it is far simpler than that, and at the same time more complex. What is Sugar? Sugars … [Read more...]
FEEDING FOR BREEDING AND HORSES AT REST
Here we get some advice from British Horse Feeds consultant nutritionist, Dr Tom Shurlock as we take a look at feeding for breeding, including broodmares and stallions, and horses at rest… Breeding The nutrient requirements for feeding broodmares or stallions are not significantly different from general maintenance. For the breeding stallion there is approximately a … [Read more...]