Feed your Horse with SA Horse Feeds

29/10/2025

✨🕰️Clocks changing = routine change🕰️✨

🍂Its officially “cosy season” and your horse may be spending more time stabled with a different routine.
Changes in seasons, diet and routine can increase the risk of colic. 🍂

Tips to reduce the risk with a stabled horse.
🔹Feed plenty of fibre
🔹Encourage water consumption
🔹Make routine and diet changes gradually

Try adding a soaked mash such as Speedi- Beet to your horses feed to:-
1️⃣Increase fibre intake
2️⃣Prolong chew time
3️⃣Aid hydration

Keep your horse satiated and keeping the digestive system mobile and happy!

24/10/2025

💚Fibre-Beet, when, why & how! 💚

Our unsung hero, Fibre-Beet is sometimes found lurking in the shadows of our flagship product Speedi-Beet!
Did you know Fibre-Beet is the conditioning version of Speedi-Beet!
Expertly blended with Speedi-Beet, alfalfa, oat fibre, peppermint and added biotin it’s the perfect tasty conditioning fibre mash!

Fibre-Beet is
🟢Low starch
🟢Low sugar
🟢High Fibre
🟢Conditioning without the FIZZ

When to use it? NOW!
Are you struggling with....
🟢Bare paddocks that lack grass as we head into winter
🟢Poor forage or limited supply
🟢Elderly horses and ponies with poor teeth
🟢Poor fibre eaters
🟢Horses that have already started to drop weight as we head into winter.

For specific feed advice, contact our team for tailored diet plans.

14/10/2025

💙Seasonal Laminitis watch!💙
Laminitis, a condition in which blood circulation to and in the hoof decreases and the sensitive laminae of the feet become inflamed and swell causing painful increased pressure in the hoof.

Common Causes:
🔹Rich grass/ fructan overload
🔹Obesity
🔹High cereal intake
🔹Metabolic disorders such has EMS or Cushing’s
🔹Illnesses or infections

Laminitis can be very painful and can come on very suddenly.

Early Warning Signs:
🔹Shifting weight or reluctance to move
🔹Rocked-back stance
🔹Warm hooves or increased digital pulse
🔹Lameness

Prevention Tips:
🔹Monitor grass intake by either strip grazing, use of a grazing muzzle or reducing turnout at times of day when fructan levels are at their highest.
🔹Maintain a healthy weight
🔹Remove starch and sugars from the diet – avoid cereal based feeds
🔹Feed a balanced diet of essential vitamins and minerals
🔹Be cautious during seasonal changes!

Dietary changes and restrictions to grazing however should not compromise your horse and ponies fibre intake

Feeding a tasty Speedi-Beet mash, that is high in volume, fibre and chew time but keeping calories minimal is ideal for good doers and those prone to laminitis when fed as a balanced diet.

Speedi- Beet is also approved by the Laminitis trust

If you suspect your horse has laminitis, call you vet immediately for advice.

11/10/2025

💙Speedi-Beet = The Original and the Best💙

Nothing added, just sugar taken away!
✨Low Sugar
✨Low Starch
✨“Diluted” calories for the good doer
✨Ready in 10 ‘Speedi’ minutes

11/10/2025

💚🐴Pre-exercise meal of Fibre-Beet 🐴💚

A major contribution to gastric ulcers is exercising on an empty stomach. Movement can force stomach acid beyond the protective layer of the stomach, where it can burn the squamous region.

Feed Fibre-Beet prior to exercise to-
🟢Create a physical barrier or “raft” of fibre to help prevent acid splash
🟢Increase chew time and saliva production to help neutralise the stomach acid around the optimum of pH4
🟢Provide natural beet pectin’s, that can bind and extend the mucosal lining to protect the stomach from acid splash
🟢A natural prebiotic to support gut health when fed as part of a balanced diet

11/10/2025

💚✨Winter forage worries! ✨💚

🐴 Is your roughage supply limited?

🐴Fibre is one of the essential nutrients needed when it comes to the horse’s diet and roughage is the highest proportion.

🐴To maintain a healthy digestive system and weight, your horse should be consuming around 2% of their bodyweight in forage per day.

A lack of roughage could result in
💚Loss of weight
💚Digestive problems such as gastric ulcers and colic
💚Behavioural issues

Fibre-Beet, a super fibre conditioning mash with a carefully formulated combination Speedi-Beet, lucern and oat fibre is the ideal tasty forage replacement
💚Low starch
💚Low sugar
💚Increases chew time & fibre intake
💚Highly palatable tasty mash

🐴Fibre-Beet can be fed separate from hard fed as a “haynet in a bucket”. By offering more than one fibre source alongside hay this will encourage natural foraging and grazing behaviours.

✨For specific and bespoke advice call our friendly team today! ✨

04/10/2025

Much needed weight loss achieved with carefull feeding.

03/10/2025

Excellent blog to follow!

❓How many times a day should I feed my horse? Do feed balancers cause weight gain? Is Haylage too rich for my horse? ❓

✨💙Are you finding yourself asking these questions? ✨💙

Head over and read our latest blog, to get the answers to the top 10 feed myths debunked...

https://www.britishhorsefeeds.com/top-10-feed-myths-debunked/

03/10/2025

✨Did you know... ✨

🐴💙💚Just 1kg of dry weight Speedi-Beet or Fibre-Beet, when soaked, can replace up to 1.5kg of hay. 💚💙🐴

Both Speedi-Beet and Fibre-Beet offer a reliable way to support your horse's diet when forage is limited.

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27/09/2025

These horses looking great coming out of winter. They live out, all barefoot, all fed Speedi-Beet or Fibre-Beet with a Low Cal Balancer.

27/09/2025

22/09/2025

The UnBEETable conditioning mash that ticks all the boxes!

Fibre-Beet, a superior conditioning feed with a carefully formulated combination of-
💙Speedi-Beet
💚 Lucern
🧡Oat Feed
💜Supplemented with Biotin
💚Flavoured with Peppermint

Use Fibre-Beet if you need -

✨Condition without the FIZZ
💪Lacking in topline and muscle tone
😍Struggling with poor grazing or a fussy forage eater
😁Veteran horses with poor teeth