Nutritional Advice for Horses
When you contact our Feed Line, we'll ask questions about your horse's age, weight and their daily routine - which includes both feeding and management.
A complete & convenient feed, combining our high quality forages & complementary ingredients.
- Convenient
- Complete balanced feed
- Non-heating
Suitable For
- Higher nutritional requirements
- Superb coat & condition
- All equines
- Slow release energy
- Feeding soaked
p
15 - 17
f
22 - 27
s
<5
t
<5
Feeding Instructions
As with any new feed, introduce gradually over a week (if already using just Simple System Forages and complementary feeds you can swap directly onto SimplyComplete).
SimplyComplete must be fed soaked. Soak 1 part SimplyComplete to 3 parts water until no lumps remain.
Use 0.5% of bodyweight per day (i.e. 2.5kg for a 500kg horse) and adjust as required. Feed according to requirements and condition.
A level Stubbs bowl scoop = 1.5kg (dry weight) approximately
Blends & Balancer Measure holds = 0.5kg (dry weight) approximately
Composition
Lucerne, beetpulp, linseed meal, Seaweed (ascophyllum nodosum), Brewers yeast, Salt (sodium chloride), Spearmint.
Nutrients
All products are natural and seasonal variations can occur, the packaging of each product will detail the typical analysis which is relevant to the batch/cut within the bag. Below are this product’s specification ranges to give an indication of the seasonal variations that can occur for this product.
Specification Ranges
| Crude Fat (Oil) % | 4 - 7 | % | |
| Crude Ash % | 8 - 12 | % | |
| Crude Protein % | 15 - 17 | % | |
| Crude Fibre % | 22 - 27 | % | |
| Sugar % | <5 | % | |
| Starch % | <5 | % | |
| Digestible Energy | High | 11 - 13 | MJ/kg |
Vitamins & Minerals
We do not add vitamins as they occur naturally within the ingredients, often in their precursor form. The packaging of each of our forage products details average vitamin, mineral and trace element figures produced by the British Association of Green Crop Driers to give an indication of the levels found within Lucerne or Grass. Simple System undertakes mineral analysis every two years or when/if the source of the product is changed. Below are the most up to date figures specific to this product.
Major Minerals
| Calcium % | 1.61 |
| Phosphorus % | 0.3 |
| Sodium % | 0.2 |
| Potassium % | 1.94 |
| Magnesium % | 0.21 |
| Chloride % | 0.77 |
| Sulphur % | 0.34 |
Minor Minerals
| Copper mg/kg | 10.3 |
| Manganese mg/kg | 51.2 |
| Zinc mg/kg | 38.9 |
| Iron mg/kg | 762 |
| Selenium mg/kg | 0.19 |
The benefits were seen in every horse on the yard from retired older horses to fit competition horses. Now, some ten years on we are known locally for even the poorest looking horse looking better for being with us, often showing improvements in coat and foot quality and also often temperament with owners commenting on how “chilled” their horse has become.
We are absolutely convinced that the forage-based diet we offer, along with the SimplyComplete that all horses are given is the reason the horses all look so well.
Barbara Kingsley-Monks, SurreyPerfect Partners to SimplyComplete
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