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Nutrition & Ingredients

Why aren't there any vitamins and minerals listed on your feed bags?

When you look on ingredients labels, there is often an impressive list of added vitamins and minerals. You will not see this on Simple System feeds because we do not add any and do not need to! Forages can naturally supply all that our horses need.

A history of sainfoin

Sainfoin is an ancient legume that has been grown by farmers across the world for hundreds of years.

Electrolytes for Horses

Horses lose salts in their sweat. In fact, their sweat is saltier than their blood, so these salts, called electrolytes, need to be replaced.

Omega oils - not always confusing!

The horse�s natural diet of grazing on the treeless plains and steppes is generally quite low in nutrition and also low in oil � around 2-3%. That oil on which the horse has successfully evolved has 4 times as much omega 3 as omega 6, so I do

Should horses constantly be eating?

Horses evolved on grassy, treeless plains. They are nomadic trickle feeders that would spend and average of 12.5 hours a day wandering and grazing upon forage

Lucerne, a Prince Among Horse Feeds!

There has been a lot of chat about lucerne/alfalfa lately and it seems many people have been confused by conflicting reports and various dire warnings! As it is potentially such a useful for feed for so many horses, I hope the following will

My horse is prone to tying up and I have been told to give them a high oil diet. What else can I do to support them?

When horses are prone to tying up, it is important to keep their metabolism off the anaerobic, glucose pathway as this results in the formation of lactic acid, too much of which will trigger a tying up episode.

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