CoolStance Copra Meal horse feed 20kg

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For example a lucerne/alfalfa, beet-pulp based diet is high calcium, low phosphorus. Add copra and it raises the phosphorus without also unnecessarily increasing calcium. And that helps you both meet phosphorus requirement and keep the calcium to phosphorus ratio balanced (FeedXL works all of this out for you!). Copra meal is high in fibre and it makes for great fibre diversity. If you have an easy keeper, 80 g/day will add fibre variety without adding too many calories. Why Feeding a Mash is Beneficial: In the UK and Europe, we would recommend feeding CoolStance wet or damp. Horses in these countries are subjected to damper pasture, higher rainfall, and softer hay. Consequently, our horses produce less saliva when eating. Feeding CoolStance wet, is a great way of ensuring your horse has access to a greater water intake. Furthermore helping rehydration. What’s more, it will help with dust irritation. Always be mindful that Cushing’s Disease has a profound effect on a horse’s metabolism and body function. It requires a thorough veterinary assessment and laboratory workup to ascertain the extent of the condition and also whether there are any other medical conditions present as well. Management and treatment of any cushingoid horse should always be under veterinary supervision.

Premium Copra Meal is best fed as a wet mash. Introduce into your horses diet gradually over a two week period. It is recommeded that Premium Copra Meal be fed with a complete mineral suppliment if used as your horses base diet. CoolStance must be fed in conjunction with additional roughage such as hay and/or pasture to ensure the horse obtains sufficient long fibre. CoolStance Copra is not a balanced feed, so we recommend feeding a good quality vitamin and mineral supplement or balancer alongside CoolStance Copra, such as VitaStance Mineral Mix or VitaStance B1 Cool Mix.Copra meal. It’s an interesting ingredient, made from the flesh of the coconut after a lot of the oil has been extracted. Our recent research with pasture fed horses showed that CoolStance is a “slow feed” because it does not cause a glucose spike when fed twice a day.

Technical information does not beat observation. Often you horse will tell you what is working and what is not. CoolStance copra is non grain, and often used to replace grain to establish a baseline. Provide fresh, clean water. A good way to think about water is to ask yourself “would I drink this?”. One of the major attributes of CoolStance is that it will swell in water, which helps to rehydrate horses. When CoolStance is fed dry, the horses eat the feed more slowly, and by having the water trough away from the feed trough, they have to walk away from the feeders to have a drink of water. This helps to regulate consumption. Wetting feeds can also prevent dust irritation.

Nutrient Specifications - Typical Analysis

For example, for a 500kg horse, feed 1kg CoolStance and 3 kg hay both morning and evening. Adjust the amount of CoolStance depending on the level of work. In addition to low NSC, the product is high in fiber. The fiber fractions of neutral detergent fiber (NDF) and acid detergent fiber (ADF) seem high for a feedstuff considered a concentrate. The nutritional composition reveals that the fiber fractions are like those of temperate pasture grasses. The percentage of digestible fiber (hemicellulose) is comparable to fresh early vegetative orchardgrass at approximately 25%. Therefore, the energy from the fiber fraction of copra would be similar to that of grass but the higher fat content will make the total product more calorie-dense. Estimations for actual digestible energy content of copra put it in the same energy range as beet pulp or soy hulls. CoolStance copra is made from the white part of the coconut, which has been dried, baked and ground. It is a totally natural product and is chemical and GMO free. Key Benefits High levels of NSC in horse feed can have detrimental effects to horses and ponies that are insulin resistant, prone to tying up or are in other ways, metabolically challenged. So selecting a feed that is low in NSC is particularly important for these types of horses. Similarly, high NSC feeds can also cause or contribute to the above issues. CoolStance can be fed dry or as a wet mash. Some horse may prefer the texture of CoolStance® when it is wet.