Omega Feeds- PonyPlus 20kg

Omega Feeds- PonyPlus

Omega Feeds has used quality ingredients to provide your horse or pony with a nutritious and filling feed that will satisfy appetite without providing too much dietary energy.. Pony Plus will provide your equine with good quality protein, vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids (Omega 3 & 6) and bulk without oversupplying calories, starch or sugars. 

• 1% STARCH
• 4.3% SUGAR
• 5.3% NSC

Ingredients: Sunflower Hull, Lucerne Chaff, Sunflower Seeds, Canola Oil, Linseed, Full Fat Soybean, Copra Meal, Iodised Salt, Dicalcium Phosphate, Omega Feeds Vitamin & Trace Mineral Premix, Limestone, Magnesium Oxide, Vitamin E

PRODUCT FEATURES

High Fibre

• Cool energy
• Maintains a healthy microbial population in the hindgut
• Provides your horse with gut fill and that contented feeling

No Grain

• Low starch feed, making it safe for horses and ponies prone to laminitis or tying up
• Reduced risk of digestive upsets, metabolic conditions and behavioural problems

Low Non-Structural Carbohydrates

• Suitable for horses suffering from metabolic disorders such as Laminitis, Insulin Resistance, Equine Metabolic Syndrome, and Cushing’s disease

Vitamin E and Organic Selenium

• Antioxidants that protect muscles from damage during exercise
• Support the immune system
• Important for nerve and muscle function

Essential Fatty Acids (Omega 3 & 6)

• Important for skin and coat health, cell integrity and control of inflammatory responses.
• Essential fatty acids are a particularly important consideration for horse or ponies on weight loss diets.

Fortified with Vitamins & Minerals

• For optimum health and wellbeing
• Important minerals are provided to support healthy hoof growth

PONY PLUS IS IDEAL FOR:

• Easy Keepers
• Idle and mature horses or ponies
• Horses and ponies on a weight loss program
• Horses and ponies prone to metabolic conditions such as:
  • Obesity
  • Laminitis
  • Insulin Resistance
  • Equine Cushing's Syndrome
  • Equine Metabolic Syndrome
  • Tying Up

PonyPlus is also an ideal feed  for horses that are confined to a yard or box due to injury as it will meet their vitamin, mineral and some of their protein needs without oversupplying energy!

FEEDING ADVICE

• Introduce PonyPlus into your horse's diet gradually over a 10-14 day period.
• Pony Plus needs to be fed in conjunction with  a minimum of 1 kg/100 kg BW of hay, chaff and/or pasture (Pony Plus is well suited to being fed with low to average quality hay for horses or ponies on a weight loss diet).
• Suggested feeding rates should be used as a guide only.
• Feed by weight and not by volume.
• Provide access to a salt lick and clean fresh water at all times.

Why should horses with metabolic conditions be fed diets low in starch and sugar?

PONYPLUS - THE WONDER FEED!!

There is a lot of talk on PonyPlus at the moment and I have received so much positive feedback from very happy customers all over Australia!! Stories from down and out ponies that can barely walk and are now trotting around the paddock to broodmares that have previously been slipping foals and are now heavily in foal. Whatever the story, the results are astounding and the feed is working!

So why does PonyPlus work?

The feed works so well because it is so well balanced and so low in starch and sugar. It provides the horse with everything it needs- good quality protein, vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids and bulk without oversupplying calories, starch or sugar.

It is important to note that providing a low starch, low sugar feed is only PART of the correct management of a laminitic horse! Some owners have the first aspect of correct management down pat by feeding a low sugar, low starch feed, however are failing to address other contributing factors and giving their laminitic horse unlimited access to pasture or feeding roughage that is high in non structural carbohydrates and then wondering why they are not seeing big improvements in their horse.

Grazing management is essential when avoiding repeated episodes. As I'm sure many of you know, pasture can contain high levels of non structural carbohydrates (NSC's), so susceptible horses need to be managed carefully! Remember, you need to address ALL aspects of proper management. For best results, feed PonyPlus with hay/chaff that is low in NSC's and manage grazing carefully.