Platinum Feeds

22/01/2025

😍😍 feeling bit like Pavlov's dog.... beautiful lucern delivery!!!

20/01/2025

When your own horses are your best advertisement ... no they are not going to HOY, they are actually in training 🤭🫣

08/05/2024

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𝗡𝗼 𝗙𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗡𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗱? A reader wants to know if (and how) she should cut back on her horse's feed if he's not going to be ridden for a few weeks. Read what our expert has to say. >>>https://bit.ly/EQLayupFeeding

02/05/2024

Tanya Graham and Zorino Siena jumping the moon on .... congratulations 👏👏👏

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334 Sporthorse Stud World Cup
Kyalami Park Club
334 1.20m Competition in 2 Phases (Pool 1)
1st Modern Mouldings Ninette S.V. Z & Jessica de Wit
2nd Callaho Leopold & Micah Chalker
3rd White Waters Omelia's Silver Lining & Jessica Kamffer
4th Emerald Isle Aces And Eights & Elné De Klerk
5th Foresyte Kiss of Onyx & Grant Langley
6th Lorelock Hawaii & Chelsey Gertenbach
7th Callaho Conca Vella & Helen Criticos
8th Foresyte Merlin & Grant Langley
9th Emerald Isle Bakardy & Chad Hoggan
10th Equine Librium Rivervales Barely A Minute & Ivan van der Sijde
11th 334 Comira & Aisling Triggol
12th Garlic Kervec & Jessica Caitlyn Thompson
13th Data Sciences Balu & Rainer Korber
14th Roxstar Kahlua & Carina Lingerfelder

25/01/2024

30 tons of white gold 😍🤩
'swhatyouputinthatcounts

23/11/2023

The quality of your ingredients determines your results.....

21/10/2023

The way to your horse's heart....and a ticket or 2😍

21/10/2023

110% lucerne.... if only you could smell this🤩🤩🤩

22/03/2023

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A healthy happy horse from the inside outThis week you get to ask veterinarian and nutrition enthusiast Dr Rissa Parker of Glen Austin Veterinary Clinic ever...

21/02/2023

26/11/2022

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Why soak feeds? 💧

The natural diet of horses is grazing. Fresh forage is 70 – 80% water, so horses actually eat a lot of water. Even on very wet grazing, they still need to drink as well, as the food needs to be mixed with plenty of fluid to get through the small intestine’s 20 metres or so and numerous curves. In this part of the gut, the food (now called ingestate) is around 90% fluid. When a horse eats hay for instance, which is only 10 – 13% water, the horse has to chew a lot and this releases saliva which helps to add fluid to the mix. Water for the saliva comes from the blood, which in turn will draw on reserves in the large intestine, which needs to be replaced by drinking. Many horses dunk their hay in the water container, which is actually very sensible of them, albeit annoying for us as it will need cleaning out every day.

Dried, pelleted feeds are 10% water. Different feeds absorb different amounts of water – forages will take up 2.5 times their volume of water and beet pulp, 5 times. Straw is not very absorbent, taking up a lot less water and is one reason why it is not a favoured feed and has a reputation for causing impaction colic.

We always suggest pelleted feeds are offered soaked. This restores their natural hydration, increases bulk and slows eating rate. It aids digestion and can help reduce the chance of choke. Horses choke because they did not chew the food sufficiently. If a horse chokes, we need to look at what went wrong for the horse. Hungry and greedy horses may bolt their food and fail to chew it sufficiently. Young horses who are teething may fail to chew properly and horses with dental issues just cannot chew well. Even with good dental care, the teeth will start to let the horse down at some point from the late teens on and by the time they are 30 it is inevitable that the molars are worn out and will start to fall out if this hasn’t already happened.

We are accustomed to soaking beet pulp and rightly so. It is not difficult to soak feeds and enables very valuable and nutritious forage feeds to be offered safely to all horses, good chewers or not.

Soaked feeds are very palatable but need to be fresh. Feed within 12 hours of adding the water. Use an amount of water that suits your horse. Some love a soup, others prefer more of a crumble texture. You can use warm water to speed the process along and offering a warm feed is appreciated by many horses in the winter. Don’t let the requirement for soaking put you off feeding the very best forages to your horses.

20/10/2022

Another happy horse... 4 weeks on Platinum Feeds Equilibrium Plus meal 🥰🖤🤎🖤🤎

25/09/2022

07/09/2022

If only your horse could smell this....