Ready Mash - too much sugar/starch?

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I've just been speaking to R&B who are going to send me samples of their Solution Mash and Ready Mash as I want something to mix with fibre cubes for weight gain through winter and for a bit of oomph.

I know the Solution Mash contains no cereal and is very low starch/sugar and in that respect it won't give me the sparkle I need when doing a bit of hunting.

From a human perspective I would think the Ready Mash is more palatable and will give me slightly more sparkle but I'm a bit concerned about the sugar and starch levels.

Has anyone used both so can give me some feedback please.
 
I haven't used Solution Mash but do feed the Ready Mash Extra (the red one) to my oldies and a 13.2h pony along with Build up cubes - they both gained condition as I wanted, and neither have shown any fizz or stupidity on it (the pony is fairly wired anyway but he didn't get worse :) )
 
sonjafoers said:
I've just been speaking to R&B who are going to send me samples of their Solution Mash and Ready Mash as I want something to mix with fibre cubes for weight gain through winter and for a bit of oomph.

I know the Solution Mash contains no cereal and is very low starch/sugar and in that respect it won't give me the sparkle I need when doing a bit of hunting.

From a human perspective I would think the Ready Mash is more palatable and will give me slightly more sparkle but I'm a bit concerned about the sugar and starch levels.

Has anyone used both so can give me some feedback please.
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The Solution mash will put plenty of sparkle in. It's mostly soya hulls and that puts a bloom on them.

I fed a bag of it and it was really good - but at £16.00 I am not prepared to pay that for more than one bag!
 
Thank you for your replies - my fussy eater does give me plenty to think about!

So do you think it will give me a bit of sparkle Oberon? We had been doing very well on Winergy Medium, after going completely off the Condition but now it seems the Medium has lost it's appeal too so I need something that will sustain a low/medium workload without making her like a wet weekend. The Medium does contain some cereal & is 14% starch.

At the moment she is eating my good doers FibrePlus Cubes but they won't keep the weight on her during winter and they won't support her workload once we add in a bit of hound exercise in 6 weeks or so.

I'm expecting my samples tomorrow and the dilemma is do I try the Ready Mash first but if it's very tasty I won't stand a chance of getting the Solution Mash down or do I forget the Ready Mash and see if the Solution is acceptable?

Did yours eat it readily Oberon?

Angelbones I don't think I will need the Extra and I've also heard that the milk powder can put some off it - that'll be mine too then :rolleyes:
 
My Arab will eat anything but The Tank does NOT eat any 'foreign foods'.

He wants haylage or grass and nothing else thankyouverymuch....

But he went mad for the Solution Mash and he did look good on it.

The Solution Mash's ingredients are feremtable fibre (which converts to glucose in the hind gut) and so is slow release energy (like us eating porridge).

Cereal feeds are quickly converted to glucose in the small intestine for instant replenishment (like eating a Mars bar).

For hunting I would rather have a long acting source of energy - rather a fast burn and fade out.
 
I feed Rowan Barbary mashes, and also money is tight for me (as it is for most people at the moment). The mash does appear dear, but and it is a big but, when you put one scoop in to soak, it absolutely expands hugely. So I think it works out to be very reasonable in the long run.
 
I will just sample the Solution Mash then and hope it's acceptable, I guess I can always add a few oats if and when needed.

I think I will cope with the cost of it as I won't be feeding it as the sole feed so I shouldn't get through much and when my fussy mare does go off it ( as she will ) I can feed it in very small amounts to my good doer to finish it off.

Thank you everyone.
 
I did try the ready mash, but it smelt like it had loads of molasses in. When I checked the bag molasses wasn't listed, but there was something called "moglo" (sp) which when you look into is their own special additive that does contain molasses...

Which put me off really..
 
ApacheWarlord I think molglo is a molasses substitute that contains less sugar than molasses. It seems to be in a lot of feeds, it's certainly in the Winergy Equilibrium I normally feed.

I'll have to check the Solution Mash when it comes as I'm not sure if it's in that.
 
Ready mash extra sent my horse off his rocker! Trying the RM solutions at the mo but he's not keen, have had to mix speedibeet in & drop the amount right down so he'll eat some! Kind of defeating the object really. He is a fussy,sensitive so & so though!
 
Oh dear Whizzer so's mine so that doesn't bode well.

I've now read somewhere that the Ready Mash has about 17% starch but the combined sugar & starch brings it up to nearly 30% so it's Solution Mash or nothing for mine!
 
I fed my mare Readymash Extra when she came home from 3 months in hospital looking like a cruelty case. It was fantastic and in fact she put so much weight on I had to stop giving it to her. I then tried Solutions Mash but she wouldn't touch it. She is now fed on Fast Fibre which is really low in starch and sugar. I have noticed absolutely no change in her energy levels from the RM extra to the FF! She is permanently hyper!
 
Sonjafoers, I certainly won't be trekking to a feed shop miles away again to get another bag(once I finally get this one down him!).
 
sonjafoers said:
ApacheWarlord I think molglo is a molasses substitute that contains less sugar than molasses. It seems to be in a lot of feeds, it's certainly in the Winergy Equilibrium I normally feed.

I'll have to check the Solution Mash when it comes as I'm not sure if it's in that.
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Molglo is a mixture of soya oil and molasses touted as a 'low sugar alternative' to molasses.

Straight molasses is 47% sugar
Molglo is 40% sugar.

I hope their pants light on fire
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