With seasonal changes such as spring and autumn, rapid changes are taking place in your pasture. However, this is also true whenever grass is green and growing! which seems to be most of the year!
We recommend using Mag-Eze and Digest-easi PLUS for supplementary care.
Hard feed contains carbohydrates which the body in-turn uses as sugar for energy. Your feed may state low GI. Unfortunately, these are still carbohydrates, just more of a slow burn type. Carbohydrates are still sugar! Sugar still equals energy!
By reducing hard feed quantities, this will also help to control energy levels.
Remember horses are designed to gain energy through the digestion of fibre. Therefore, grass, hay, chaff and any other forages in your horses’ diet will also be supplying your horse with energy.
USEFUL TIPS
Too much energy? if your horse can leap around and buck. It requires energy to do this! Take it away! Reduce your sugar!
Feed forage in place of hard feed. Top up nutrient short falls with a vitamin and mineral supplement such as Opti-Min.
Monitor grass intake with daily management.
When rapidly green and growing manage access with strip grazing.
Susceptible animals may need to be removed from pasture to reduce sugars and the extra calories if not in high workloads.
Always increase hay (or other forage) for fibre to feel full and help balance the gut.
The fastest way to speed up metabolism is exercise. No supplement will take away sugar! it is either reduced by limiting ingestion or reduced by exercise!
For horses and ponies in low work out regimes, it is safest to restrict access to fast growing, green grass. Use hay in place of extra grass.
Feed fresh pasture early morning by strip grazing with hay readily available throughout the day. Hay is a great way to naturally buffer the gut, have chew time, feel full and content.
For good doers assess to grass will depend on individual needs, also condition and workload.
In some cases, a dry lot may be necessary with a hay only diet for more suscpectible animals.
Manage grass requirements daily and don’t allow unrestricted grazing on lush fields.
Assess your hard feed. Does your horse need extra feed? Look at the carbohydrate content on the nutritional breakdown. Do you need to change to straight fibres? such as chaff, hay, or other forages.
Does your horse need hard feed at all? Review and take into account the sugar level in your pasture. Green, growing grass equals sugar. Excess sugar without adequate exercise equals a fizzy horse!
Be sure whenever restricting pasture, to include vitamins and minerals, adequate protein and omega oils to keep the diet balanced overall.
Re-introduce hard feed to meet demands for condition or workload as required. Be sure to start slowly and feed small amounts, increasing only as necessary.
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