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As winter approaches, some horses can struggle to maintain good body condition. This can be due to a lack of nutritious pasture and/or loss of energy due to maintaining body temperature.

Tips for maintaining body condition. 

Add fibre:  Supplement with alternative fibre sources such as hay, beet, chaff, seed or pulse hulls, flax flakes or compressed chaff or hay pellets.

Add fat: Adding fat is a concentrated way of increasing calories. This can be done with quality vegetable oils: flax, hemp, or rice bran oil or high-fat meals - full-fat soya, sunflower, rapeseed meal or rice bran pellets.

Add carbs: Increase carbohydrates with a quality premixed feed of legumes and /or grains or individual grain such as barley.

Add protein: Increasing protein helps to maintain muscle and condition. High protein meals and supplements include soya, sunflower, rapeseed & flax seed.

Add vitamins and minerals: Include a quality multivitamin-mineral supplement in your horse's diet and a quality probiotic to maintain gut health and optimise digestion. 

Reduce stress and pain: If your horse suffers joint pain/arthritis or is stressed, consider a quality joint supplement and calmer.

Add warmth:  Maintaining body temperature with covers saves your horse from using its to stay warm.  Choose a waterproof rug to suit your horse's grazing condition and provide paddock shelter from the elements where possible. 

  • Horselands Kumeu Grain

    CoolStance Copra Meal 20 kg

    $56.00

    CoolStance is a premium quality copra meal, made from the white part of the coconut, which is dried, baked and ground. It is a totally natural prod...

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    $56.00
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    Prydes

    Prydes Rebuild 20 kg

    $103.50

    Premium Protein and Energy Supplement ‘Promotes topline and condition, for all types of horses’ Pryde’s ReBuild™ combines the benefits of high ener...

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    $103.50
  • Hygain

    Hygain Show Torque 20 kg

    $61.90

    HYGAIN SHOWTORQUE is not only a low dose, high fat, cereal grain free feed, that promotes lean muscle mass development, no, on top of all that it a...

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    $61.90
  • Kumeu Grain

    Copra Meal 25 kg

    $34.90

    Copra Meal is the residue after the flesh of fresh coconuts has been dried and chopped up before being pressed for coconut oil. After the coconut o...

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    $34.90
  • Hygain

    Hygain Tru Gain 20 kg

    $74.90

    HYGAIN TRU GAIN® is a safe (slow release) and effective extruded high fat supplement, providing your horse with a cool energy source along with bio...

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    $74.90
  • Hygain

    Hygain Micro Lupins 20kg

    $56.90

    Premium quality, all natural, micronized lupins that requires no soaking or cracking with the goodness sealed in. HYGAIN® MICRLUPINS® flakes are re...

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    $56.90
  • McMillan

    McMillan Rapid Gain 20 kg

    $39.90

    NOTE: This product only available at Horselands Kumeu Grain McMillan Rapid Gain is a highly digestible feed formulated for horses requiring muscle ...

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    $39.90
  • Mitavite

    Mitavite Promita 20 kg

    $64.50

    Mitavite® Promita® is a concentrated low starch feed balancer that provides high levels of quality, easily digested protein, high levels of Essenti...

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    $64.50