CLEAN FEEDING

Principles of Clean Feeding

Our formulations thrive on three key principles: ensuring a balanced intake of minerals and nutrients throughout the whole diet, promoting a robust digestive system through suitable forage, and eliminating any ingredients that may cause adverse interactions. The later involves avoiding several common feed ingredients - some known to be common allergens whilst the exclusion of others being more controversial.

The top 6 recommended to remove from your horses diet:

Wheat

Maize aka Corn

Soya

Beet

Canola aka Rapeseed

Poly-unsaturated oils (vegetables, canola/rapeseed, rice bran, sunflower, soya) 

This also incorporates ANY vague ingredients listed in feeds such as 'roughage products', 'processed grain by-products' or 'vegetable protein'

Various reasons for avoiding each ingredient range from: 

GMO's

Heavy Metal Contamination

Sugar/Starch levels

inflammatory & antagonistic properties

creator or contributor of oxidative stress

spray usage in growing and/or processing

anti-nutrients

effects on digestive tract

poor omega balance

hormonal and estrogenic effects

metabolic disturbances

It is highly recommended to read your feed bags. 

These are all cheap and therefore common inclusions in commercially processed premixed whole feed. 

Beet - a biproduct of the sugar industry. Beet is marketed for its high fibre, low sugar and starch and heavily promoted as a safe feed for horses. You will be hard pressed to find any bad press about the use of beet. It is hotly debated the reasons outlined in the following as to whether these are utter rubbish or have validity.    We recommend avoiding for various reasons including chemical leaching especially Aluminium, GMO's, High Iron & Sugar residues, Oxalates, Water retention, Pectin levels and a large volume of anecdotal evidence that suggests beet is problematic for a larger number of horses than publicly acknowledged.  Why feed it if there is the potential to create issues especially, when there is a good alternative. Make up your own mind if this is the best possible feed suited for your horses needs and situation and be open to removing if things aren't as they should or could be with the health of your horse. For more detailed information please refer to the Beet digital download.

More information coming specifically on Soy, Corn, Wheat.