A&P Fast Fibre - help please

Please be SERIOUSLY careful about how much Fast Fibre you feed.

I have no idea why Allen & Page continue to market it as being suitable as a total hay replacer, when this is clearly not the case:

It contains 0.88mg/kg of selenium, so if fed as a total hay replacer, this would be 10kg for a 500kg horse, so a total of 8.8mg selenium in the diet per day. This is way above what NRC considers a safe upper limit (they say no more than 5mg a day under any circumstances).

If you are feeding 4kg of it, that's nearly 4mg of selenium from the Fast Fibre alone, and that's before you take in account whatever's in your hay/grass and before you take in account whatever's in the Pink Powder vits/mins that you are feeding.

Selenium toxicity is not somewhere that anyone would want to go.

Sarah
 
amandap said:
That is scary! Producing a feed and then saying ignore the instructions on the bag! Surely that can't be right?
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That statement was in terms of how much you feed to a horse in rest compared to hard work. Seeing as the feed is marketed towards horses in rest and not in hard work I'm not sure why someone who had a horse in hard work would feed it. She didn't say ignore it, she said to only take into account the lower amounts, not the higher amounts.

Clearly the rep told me how much I should feed (the lower amount, which was of Cool and Collected incidently not Fast Fibre, as my mare is in medium work)
 
galaxy said:
That statement was in terms of how much you feed to a horse in rest compared to hard work. Seeing as the feed is marketed towards horses in rest and not in hard work I'm not sure why someone who had a horse in hard work would feed it. She didn't say ignore it, she said to only take into account the lower amounts, not the higher amounts.
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My misunderstanding.
 
I feed FF to both my retired mare and my horse in work. He get power and performance. I use it almost like sugar beet and used to feed it to my old horse. I have always found that it put weight on mine! I used to feed a two scoops as a hay replacer but now it is half a scope between the two twice a day.
 
I fed my good doer on Fast fibre when he was recovering from laminitis, as a hay replacer, to keep him occupied and a way to get fluid into him as he wouldn't drink much...
Then I used it to get weight OFF him after the autumn, I had to stop feeding it as he lost so much weight on it. So don't see how it adds condition!!!!
It also makes them poo for england, another reason not to feed too much.
 
I rate FF, but as others say, more of a binder to mix vits & mins in, my old retired mare gets 2 mugs twice a day with her supplements added... thats it! (well other then her hay) I was giving it to my gelding too, but decided to stop giving it to him and give him a bit extra Dengie Healthy Tummy, he never really liked the FF anyway!
 
I mix a scoop of FF with a scoop of Speedibeet & soak it, all the horses (young & old) have it and LOVE it (when it's really cold outside I use warm water) they eat all their feed up when I mix it with their chaff & mix & vits, I'm really pleased with Fast Fibre :)
 
I've been giving him just a mug of ff and changed to Baileys performanceperformance balance with.his.Hi Fi MOlasses free. He looks a lot better now thanx.guys. im going to take him off thee FF when he is out on grass (if that ever happens with this blunmin weather )
 
I've been giving my mare FF but am going to switch to Speedibeet as, having looked at the ingredients, that's pretty much what it is, and a bag a week of FF is a lot more expensive!
 
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