This week we donated feed to Remus Memorial Horse Sanctuary in Essex with the enable of wholesaler Essex Animal Feeds. We have been doing work with Remus for more than 15 many years, supporting their staff providing nourishment suggestions and analyzing the horse’s diet plans.
“This donation of Dengie feed could not have appear at a far better time. The recent soaked and windy temperature have minimized our turnout time, so we’re working with additional hay and bedding which has had an effects on our funds” suggests Sue Burton, Founder and Manager of Remus Horse Sanctuary. “The donation of Dengie’s Hello-Fi Molasses Free of charge and Alfa-Beet has helped to simplicity that economic stress a tiny. Many thanks Workforce Dengie for building this attainable and to the crew at Essex Animal Feeds for organising a swift and seamless delivery”.
Dengie Hello-Fi Molasses No cost and Alfa-Beet are fed to a large range of unique horses, ponies and donkeys that are living at Remus, numerous of which have nutritional connected issues these kinds of as PPID, EMS or inadequate dentition. This combination of large fibre feeds delivers the horses and ponies with a low sugar and starch ration and can quickly be eaten by these that battle to chew.
“I have worked with the team at Remus for lots of years, they were being really just one of the to start with areas I frequented when I joined the Dengie Nutrition team” says Tracey Hammond, Nutritionist at Dengie. “For me, past supporting the horses, I have discovered it quite gratifying giving Sue and her crew with the applications to make choices on what and how considerably to feed, which usually means it’s only the definitely tough instances they require to seek the advice of me on now”.
When Dengie initially began performing with Remus, they experienced a incredibly aged inhabitants including a lot of animals with dental challenges. Discovering an ideal alternative to hay that these people could chew was crucial to aiding with fat acquire and keeping digestive wellbeing. Some of the horses ended up later associated in a Dengie funded review by a Writtle University scholar to evaluate the effects of inadequate dentition on forage intake. It was observed that these with lousy tooth consumed 2/3 much less than normal horses. When the fibre structure was transformed to a absolutely soaked fibre supply, Dengie Alfa-Beet, there have been no feed refusals at all showing that for the older horse, supplying fibre in a structure they can simply chew is crucial.
In excess of the years the inhabitants of horses at Remus has adjusted and the quantity of younger horses that are laminitis vulnerable due to Equine Metabolic Syndrome (EMS) has enhanced. The amenities at Remus have modified to reflect this and they now have some excellent woodchip areas to take care of individuals that have to have restricted or no grass access. With the expense of dwelling disaster the demands on Remus have considerably enhanced. Not only are their possess costs to operate the charity rising, but the requests to assist horses has multiplied as very well. It is amazing that Dengie have been capable to make a contribution of Hi-Fi Molasses Free and Alfa-Beet that the majority of the horses consume to assist lighten the load.
For extra facts about Dengie’s feeds or for aid and advice on all features of feeding phone the Dengie Feedline: 01621 841188 or full our Feed Assistance Variety.
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