Ribble Valley Animal Feeds

02/05/2025

15/04/2025

Wishing everyone a relaxing Easter weekend 🪺🐰

Good Friday- CLOSED
Saturday- 9am - 4pm
Easter Sunday- CLOSED
Easter Monday- CLOSED

Have a lovely Easter 💖

07/03/2025

Have you seen our brand new kibble? Super excited to say this is now available in 2kg & 10kg bags 🤩

We’ve got something suitable for all dogs, especially helping with skin & coat issues, digestions, and weight control 🐕

Not only is it made even more digestible using Peptides, it’s also Grain Free 🌾❌

Pop in to talk about what might suit your pup 🐶

27/02/2025

🌼MARCH 2025 SHOW DATES🌼

…And we’re moving outdoors☀️🎉

⭐️From the 12th March all shows and hires will be held in the outdoor arena, until the end of summer!
(Dressage and warm up arena will remain indoors)

👀The first outdoor arena hire bookings will be available on Horse Monkey next week

All March shows are open for entry on Equipe👇🏼
📲 https://www.northcotestud.com/our-events

07/02/2025

✨Equine Laundry Service✨

Head to our website below for more information:
👀https://www.northcotestud.com/rug-washing-price-list

Drop off and collect from the following locations:
📍Northcote Stud, BB6 8BE
📍Ribble Valley Animal Feeds ,BB7 9BQ

To book in, send an email to the following:
📧 [email protected]

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25/01/2025

Absolutely LOVE this

Friday focus….feeding behaviour!

When formulating feed plans, taking into account the feeding behaviour of our equines is a key factor in getting everything in balance. Horses spend around 70% of their time looking for and eating food. For most equines this equates to 16-20 hours a day, depending on the individual!

Eating is a highly important part of every horse and ponies daily needs to ensure digestive and behavioural health and it is equally important whether your horse lives out, is stabled or on a combined system.

As most of you that use my services know, I am a huge advocate of ad lib feeding of appropriate forages (where possible) and enriching environments, whether they live in or out. Ideally, they should not be without forage for any more than 2 hours if they are stabled (preferably they should never run out) and if they are out on very short or bare paddocks, hay / haylage / straw should be provided to ensure they have enough fibre going through their digestive systems.

They are so many ways of enriching their environments whether they are in or out; haynets and piles of forage in different places, hay balls, slow feeders, different types of forages, chaffs, beets and succulents, hedgerow herbs, treat balls, fruit, vegetables, vegetable kebabs...the list goes on!

Even those on weight loss programmes can have an enriched environment, you just need to ensure that everything is accounted for and that you are giving them the right type of forages and feeds. There is nothing more satisfying than seeing a horse or pony on a restricted diet, that doesn’t realise they are being restricted because their rations / environment satisfies their needs. There is nothing more stressful for them and us, if they are unhappy with their rations / environment and are stood for hours on end with no food.

Putting forage in different places, offering different forages and succulents to eat, will get them moving around and promote foraging type behaviour. Movement is key for digestion, horses are not meant to be stood still, they need to be moving around; so this will help satisfy their innate need to forage and seek out food. A little effort and creativeness on our part can make a huge difference to our horses!

I know it can be tricky to keep some of the greedier horses eating for as long as we would like them to be, but some of the above will help slow them down; by how much depends upon the individual though! Happy horses and ponies = happy us!

15/01/2025

Introducing a brand new product in store…

Tried & tested healthy, fresh, AFFORDABLE raw.

🦮 Created for dogs by leading dog trainers
🌱 Promoting a healthy evolutionary diet
🇬🇧 Top quality meats supplied from UK farms
🥩 Natural dog food for supreme health

NO FILLERS, NO FUSS- simply thaw & feed

These yummy sausages come in 500g & 1kg, with an 80/10/10 & Complete version.

05/01/2025

Never underestimate the bond between a little girl and her German Shepherd ✋🏻🐾
Myla sent me this whilst I was at work and they were all enjoying the snow, Elvis always right by her side 🤍

25/12/2024

Wishing all of our amazing customers a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, we can’t wait to continue growing in 2025 🎉🎄

15/12/2024

Elvis LOVED getting pampered. Thank you so much for loving him and making him smell delicious 🥰

13/12/2024

Have you seen the brand new horse licks in the shop.
LOW SUGAR 🍬 (12% many other licks are 22% or above) and packed with lots of flavour.

They are perfect for in the field, turnout pen, in the stable or just as a treat when grooming, bathing or farrier etc.