Grass Pellets?

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Does anyone use them? If so, what results did you get and how long did they take to make a difference if they made one?

Horse in question I'm thinking of using them for is a typical TB prone to weight loss in winter, even on copious amounts of hard feed/adlib haylage/rugged up to the eyeballs/etc. He doesn't heat up either...not worried about fizz!
 
I was looking at the Simple Feeds ones....there's a supplier just down the road from me. Go on supplier locater on there :)
 
I fed Simple Systems, Lucie cobs & the blue bag grass pellets last winter. We had an elderly TB that arrived in poor condition during all the snow, he was a little bit fussy with it to start with but soon got into it & put weight & condition on really well. I was very pleased with it & liked the fact that it's low sugar but they are still getting grass even in really awful weather. I will be feeding it again after Christmas, when hopefully our mare will be back in work :-)
 
Your local feed merchant will stock grass pellets - I doubt you'll get a choice of late cut grass or spring grass ( as you do with Simple Systems ) but they will stock a general grass pellet I'm sure.

Well mine do :)
 
I just get a bag of generic grass nuts from my local feed merchants. Not a posh brand or bag, but they are pellets of squashed grass, nothing else, which is just what I wanted! About £8 for 20kg. Both ours get them as a base for their minerals, and they gobble them up! If you are looking at keeping condition on then microionised linseed (charnwoods is the cheapest I have found, again from ace local feed merchants) is brilliant stuff!
 
Your feed Merchant will stock them I'm sure. If not they should order them in for you. Mine aren't a specific make.

Grass nuts swell alot when water is added. So do soak them! I soak mine over night as I would Sugarbeet. One scoop of grass nuts, to one bucket of water tends to be about the right consistency. This not only reduces the chance of choke/colic but also bulks it out and means they're more easily digested. This feeds my three horses along with a balancer and some Alfa-A oil. They're all living without rugs and they're all looking very well on it.

One bag lasts me about a week and as I say that's feeding three twice a day. An Arab prone to weight loss. A three year old TB x Welsh D. And my Connie x. They all get varying amounts, depending on what they need.

They work for me :)
 
He'll eat anything....other than linseed! He hates it....I've tried it in every form possible.
He's currently on a mash of coolstance/maize/barley rings/sugar beet/conditioning nuts and codlivine and ad lib haylage. He's covered now but has no topline really [though he's always hard to get a top on in winter anyway] and was wormed with pramox 2 weeks ago.

It's keeping the weight on him now, but he's having to have ridiculous amounts of it and it's costing a fortune!

In the summer, he can live on just grass and no hard feed and will look like an absolute bullock - but only good grass puts weight on him I've found which is why I was wondering about pellets....more so the red bag spring grass ones?
 
I usually use the Graze On ones by Northern Crop Driers (don't get confused with their chaff of the same name or the ground killing spray!) Excellent results which you should notice the difference pretty quickly.
 
We feed the Old Cob lady on grass nuts, Argo feeds, and they keep weight on her very well, she went from a good doer to a poor doer with age. They are just basic pelleted grass and they are excellent.
 
I've been using grass pellets on OH's new horse who arrived rather lean, and has definitely helped put the weight back on him. I mostly use the ones made by "A Poucher" which I buy in bulk from Thorogoods - they are particularly economical as less than £8 a bag and the bags are 25kg. If I run out in between deliveries then I get the Graze-On ones from the local feedstore.
 
My tb has blue bag grass pellets from simple systems. Really rate them, I get them delivered from ss direct. Keep his weight on, without the silliness!
 
I feed my horse grass nuts as any other feeds seem to hype him up, have used SS lucid nuts (actually have a bag at home which am still to use) but they are expensive. I get my grass nuts in a white bag, soak them and then feed, horse loooooves them :) :) :)

I always soak them as we once had a pony who choked on them. As a result, I don't need to feed as much precious hay. I used a very good multi-vit as well, my boy looks well on them.
 
I don't weigh them I just shove a large scoop in and then soak 'em. Go by the horse, obviously I build up to that amount, sorry not much use!!
 
I use 'northern crop driers' grass pellets - same comapny that make graze on chaff. Love them - and they smell amazing!!

I have 2 youngsters that get a scoop of them, a scoop of graze on and a balancer - they look fantastic, with good levels of energy - but still sane enough to break in!

Dressage pony gets - 2scoops grass pelletc, 1 scoop graze on, 1scoop alfa a molasses free, a balancer and corn oil (split into several feeds)- he suffers terribly from gastric ulcers, but this low starch, low sugar diet + 24/7 turnout seems to be keeping it under control! And he still looks super!

Everything else on the yard gets various amounts of. the same basic feeds dependant on work/waist line!

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I have my 2 on the Graze On pellets and readigrass (although the TB get middlings and sugarbeet with that) and they are both looking well. My cob is looking great for this time of year considering he has to be naked and has a half-grown-out chaser clip.
I soak 1 round scoop in a bucket, the mare gets 1 scoop per meal of the soaked and the cob gets a ¼ and the bucket lasts me about 5 days?
 
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