Can't remember the name ! anyone help ?

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Hey I was in my local tack shop today , and saw some tiny Haynets. Like I mean small enough to fit one handful of hay in ! I asked the guys in shop what they were for and she showed me a packet of very compressed grass . There were different varieties of them . One had valerian And camomile in as a calmer . One has lots of vitamins and there was one for veterans . Apparently you place it in the hay net and it helps with bordem. Bit like a salt lick. I just can't remember the name of it !! I really wanted to do some more research on it ! If anyone knows please help .
 
My mare loves these but can eat one in an hour... She has worked out how to chew through the bottom of the net to drop the vita munch onto the floor and scoffs the lot!
 
The website says Timothy grass which I'm sure isn't alfalfa. I use meadow bricks from simple systems but like the thought of hedgerow goodies.
 
Halleys and Equiblox do a similar product, theirs are more compressed which makes them last longer and they are cheaper too. I think the Vitamunch ones are probably a bit more fancy but my two ponies are happy with the cheap ones
 
There's definitely alfalfa listed as an ingredient on the packets.

Mine loved them initially and tucked into them more than the Halleys blocks that they were previously getting.
 
I'm still trying to see the point of them as they are so expensive. Why not give the horse some hay which is much cheaper? I have a free sample sitting in my tack room which has been there for ages.

Some one please enlighten me!
 
asmp said:
I'm still trying to see the point of them as they are so expensive. Why not give the horse some hay which is much cheaper? I have a free sample sitting in my tack room which has been there for ages.

Some one please enlighten me!
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I feel the same at around £3 per kilo they are very expensive and apart from possibly using them for a horse on box rest that you are struggling to keep settled I think like so many horse products they are more to make the owner feel good than any real benefit for the horse.
 
My horses are all fed adlib hay, out on plenty of grazing and fed high fibre/no cereal diets. They just get blocks as an additional fibre source and a bit of variety. They view them as a "treat" so win/win.

There a four different types; two at £3 and two others (calmer and hoof version) are £4. It's not a big expense to me, it was just a wee something nice/different for them <shrugs>. They also got the Halleys blox that work out cheaper as sold in bags of 12 so works out around 70p per block depending on what type you buy.

I personally don't believe that the hoof or calmer versions would have any effect but, having noticed a distinct lack of cleavers around this year, I like that they're an ingredient in one version. My boys all went daft for them and got stuck right in.
 
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