Find the right horse feed for your horse

Browse our extensive range of equestrian horse feed, we’ve worked hard to provide a varied and extensive range suitable for all types of horses at all stages of their lives. We’ve a range of mixes, cubes and straights.

Horse Food: Compound Feeds Vs Straights

Compound horse feeds are a complete feed, usually available as a mix and are to be fed alongside a forage. Compound feeds have been created to give the horse a complete, balanced diets which feature all the minerals and vitamins for your horses’ requirements, whether that’s a mix designed for performance such as Spiller’s performance mix or a mix designed for a horse at rest or light work such as Allen & Page Quiet mix.

Straight feeds relate to non-complete types of feed such as maize, bran, wheat, oats and barley and therefore they’re not a complete feed for your horse as they don’t feature added vitamins or minerals (if you need these then see our range of equine supplements). This means you’ll need to add a horse feed balancer such as the range from blue chip who provide a range of balancers to suit your horses needs. This does also mean that feeding will take longer as you’ll need to get the balance right and mix the horse feeds yourself. Straight feeds are also often a cheaper option but remember; you’ll need to factor in the cost of minerals and balancers.

If you don’t feed your horse a complete, balanced diet then this can lead to issues if they lack certain minerals or vitamins an example of this is feeding a horse straights without a balanced mix can lead to a lack of calcium, vitamins and amino acids such as lysine which is very important has horses do not make their own lysine and therefore need this in their diet. An insufficient amount of lysine can mean the horse cannot process protein correctly which can lead to a number of health issues and result in loss of condition, poor hoof growth and coat condition.

Buy Horse Feeds and Straight Online

Whatever you decide the Gladwell’s team are on hand to provide help and advice. Browse our extensive range and buy online today for fast delivery UK wide or stop by one of your local country stores to speak to one of our team members. You can always give us a call on 01473 730246 for assistance.