ALFALFA PLUS
Highly nutritional and palatable feed for all horses. High in fibre, very low in starch and sugars.
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Introduce any new feeds into your horse’s diet gradually over a 1-2 week period.
Designed to be fed in conjunction with roughage such as pasture and hay. You can give our feeds alone or combined with other ingredients (eg. chaff or grains). Horses should receive a minimum of 1% of their body weight in roughage per day.
Divide into smaller feeds if feeding over 0.5kg per 100kg of body weight per day.
Ensure your horse always has access to clean water.
Johnson’s Alfalfa Plus is a high fibre, high protein, low starch and sugar, pelleted feed. Formulated as a cool feed, it is suitable for all horses and ponies in light, medium or hard work, retired or spelling horses, breeding and growing horses. Provides very low starch and sugar levels, which may make it a suitable feed for horses who tie up, or suffer from Laminitis, Cushings, Insulin Resistance, Equine Metabolic Syndrome etc.
Ingredients
Johnson’s Alfalfa Plus contains premium grade export quality Lucerne Hay, Lupins, Faba Beans, Soybean Oil (GMO free) and Johnson’s Premium Vitamin and Mineral premix (including chelated minerals, prebiotics, probiotics, and mycotoxin binder).
Feeding Rates
Mature Body Weight Spelling/Maintenance Light Work Medium Work Heavy Work 100 0.1 – 0.5 0.25 – 0.75 0.5 -1.0 0.75 – 1.25 200 0.25 – 0.75 0.5 – 1.0 0.75 – 1.25 1.0 – 1.5 300 0.75 – 1.5 1.0 – 2.0 1.5 – 2.5 2.0 – 3.0 400 1.0 – 2.0 1.5 – 2.5 2.0 – 3.0 2.5 – 3.5 500 1.5 – 2.5 2.0 – 3.0 2.5 – 3.5 3.0 – 4.0 600 2.0 – 3.0 2.5 – 3.5 3.0 – 4.0 3.5 – 4.5 700 2.5 – 3.5 3.0 – 4.0 3.5 – 4.5 4.0 – 5.0
Nutritional Content
Nutrients Energy 10.8 MJ/kg Protein 23.20% Fat 4.30% Fibre 29.30% Lysine 11.20 g/kg Methionine 2.9 g/kg Carbohydrates Starch 0.75% Water Soluble Carbohydrate (WSC) 7.50% Ethanol Soluble Carbohydrate (ESC) 6.20% Non Structural Carbohydrate (NSC) 8.25% Starch +ESC 6.95% Major Minerals Calcium 15.8 g/kg Phosphorus 5.2 g/kg Sodium 3.5 g/kg Chloride 10.6 g/kg Potassium 17.9 g/kg Magnesium 3.4 g/kg Trace Minerals Zinc* 156.4 mg/kg Copper* 57.0 mg/kg Selenium* 0.7 mg/kg Iodine* 1.4 mg/kg Manganese* 102.2 mg/kg Iron* 107.1 mg/kg Chromium 0.7 mg/kg Cobalt 0.7 mg/kg * Included as organic minerals Vitamins Vitamin A 10482.6 IU/kg Vitamin D 1220.9 IU/kg Vitamin E 231.8 IU/kg Vitamin B1 (Thiamine) 13.3 mg/kg Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) 11.6 mg/kg Vitamin B3 (Niacin) 53.6 mg/kg Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic Acid) 13.6 mg/kg Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine) 4.6 mg/kg Vitamin B12 (Cyanocobalamin) 22.8 µg/kg Vitamin C 60.3 mg/kg Vitamin K 3.5 mg/kg Biotin 0.2 mg/kg Folic Acid 3.0 mg/kg Choline 17.4 mg/kg