Which low starch/sugar mashes are complete feeds please?

[NLC]

Any idea which mashes offer a broad range of vitamins please? Trying to streamline my feeding regime! All retirees, in good general health.

 

[Pinkvboots]

Pure feeds do one I think its called pure balance I used to use it a while back.

 

[TGM]

Allen & Page do a couple of 'complete' mashes that might suit, Fast Fibre and Veteran Vitality. A lot depends on how low starch/sugar you need to go. Fast Fibre is very low and great if you have one with a significant weight problem or laminitis. Otherwise the Veteran Vitality might be better. The Rowen Barbary mashes are supplemented too and their Solution Mash is low sugar/starch.

 

[TGM]

Pure feeds do one I think its called pure balance I used to use it a while back.

Isn't that just a pelleted balancer though, not a mash? Although I suppose you could soak it if you wanted to.

 

[Birker2020]

Isn't that just a pelleted balancer though, not a mash? Although I suppose you could soak it if you wanted to.

Yes VV is pelleted. Extremely palatable especially the normal version, my previous horse didn't like 'VV Light' and refused to eat it.

 

[Pinkvboots]

Isn't that just a pelleted balancer though, not a mash? Although I suppose you could soak it if you wanted to.

I just looked on there site and it's the pure fibre balance that is a complete feed it's a mash with the added balancer.

 

[Pinkvboots]

Isn't that just a pelleted balancer though, not a mash? Although I suppose you could soak it if you wanted to.

Actually the fibre one is a chaff I think your right the pure balance is a pellet balancer, I thought they did do a mash with the balancer may not !

 

[TPO]

Soothe & Gain?

 

[chaps89]

I have a cushings pony on Allen and page veteran light which is a complete mash and a little bit of chaff mixed in

 

[Poing]

I have a cushings pony on Allen and page veteran light which is a complete mash and a little bit of chaff mixed in

I’ve just looked this up on their website, and it looks quite stalky. Is the chaff quite hard and spiky until dampened?

 

[HeyMich]

Allan & Page Fast Fibre

 

[chaps89]

I’ve just looked this up on their website, and it looks quite stalky. Is the chaff quite hard and spiky until dampened?

Apologies my post wasn’t clear, I add the chaff separately.
The mash comes in pellet form and you soak it for 2-3 minutes before feeding, and it turns into mush/mash. I choose to also add a handful of molasses’s free chaff to mix in, the feed itself is definitley a mash.

 

[Sanversera]

https://rowenbarbary.co.uk/solution-mash.html

 

[Sanversera]

rowan barbary do a range of mashes the above is suitable for laminitics,the RSPCA use this for their horses needing to be fed a mash due to old age loss of teeth etc and laminitis.

 

[Sussexbythesea]

The only issue with “complete” feeds is that to get the required amount of vits and mins you have to feed at the recommended rate which is often too much in terms of calories for a lot of horses. Personally if you want simple I’d go for a fibre based feed with no additional things added and then add a balancer like Progressive Earth pro-balance.

 

[Melandmary]

I use allan and page fast fibre and then add som healthy hooves mollases free. The A&P is very low sugar and starch and is fine for ems/lami.

 

[HackWithMe]

Another vote for Allen and page, I use cool and collected for my horse in full work with a scoop of mollichaff calmer to bulk it out. My youngster has fast fibre and handful of chaff to bulk it out They both lick the bowl clean!