Keep your horse occupied for longer with this high fibre, low sugar fibre block, which is bursting full of tasty herbs and nutritious vitamins and minerals.
A 1kg healthy, low sugar fibre block with endless uses. Packed full of essential vitamins and minerals together with herbs naturally sought by horses in the hedgerows, rosehips, and hawthorn, Vitamunch blocks can help in many ways:
- As a boredom breaker
- Encouraging natural foraging in the stable when turnout is limited
- Topping up essential vitamins & minerals
- Providing a healthy, low sugar but high fibre snack
- To slow food intake with its highly compressed nature
- As a smaller (and tastier!) alternative to hay when travelling
- Keeping horses occupied at competition
What inspired this vitamunch fibre block?
As a company focused on the horses’ wellbeing, we thought it was only right to look at the mental and nutritional wellbeing of our equine friends too!
What is in vitamunch?
Not just a simple fibre block, vitamunch fibre blocks are made from dried timothy hay and fortified with essential vitamins and minerals, while containing tasty herbs naturally sought by horses in the hedgerows:
Rosehips - a traditional tonic, high in vitamin C.
Hawthorn - known for its effect on the cardiovascular system, rich in bioflavonoids.
12 Vitamins - including A, B, C, D, E, as well as biotin, copper, and zinc!
Timothy Hay – naturally high in fibre and low in sugar, and super tasty!
*1 vitamunch provides 50% of the published daily requirements for vitamins & trace elements based on a 500kg horse in light work.
Who is it for?
All horses can enjoy a vitamunch hedgerow fibre block due to its high fibre and low sugar content, including those prone to laminitis. It is particularly useful:
- As a boredom breaker.
- Encouraging natural foraging in the stable when turnout is limited.
- Topping up essential vitamins & minerals.
- To slow food intake with its highly compressed nature.
- As a smaller (and tastier!) alternative to hay when travelling.
- Keeping horses occupied at competition.
- Horses on box rest.
- As a distraction when companions go out.
Ways to feed vitamunch hay blocks.
There is no right or wrong way, it’s whatever works for your horse.
As its so tasty, most horses are keen to try gobble it down. Feeding vitamunch in a specialised munch net can help slow down those eager feeders. You can also place it in the middle of their normal haynet, so they spend time trying to hunt down the tasty treat!
For oldies whose teeth don’t quite do as well as they used to, or all horses in the winter, soaking the munch block will see it evolve into a warm, tasty bowl full of delicious goodness, right in front of your eyes!
It can of course be fed in the field or stable on its own on the ground or in a bowl. The highly compressed nature of the block will naturally slow eating down and act as a boredom breaker too!
Usage instructions:
Feeding guide: Feed up to 2 blocks per day
Ingredients and Nutritional Value:
Composition:
Timothy grass, high temperature dried (95%), alfalfa, high temperature dried, salt, dried rosehip shells (0.3%), hawthorn leaves (0.3%). * One vitamunch provides 50% of the published daily requirements for vitamins and trace elements based on 500kg horse in light work.
Additives:
Analytical Constituents:
Crude Protein 9%
Crude Fat 1.8%
Crude Fibre 30%
Crude Ash 6%
Sugar 9.5%
Sodium 0.4%
Nutritional Additives:
Vitamin A (3a672a) 12,000 IU/kg
Vitamin D (3a671) 2000 IU/kg
Vitamin E (3a700) 500 mg/kg
Vitamin C (3a311) 500 mg/kg
Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1) (3a821) 25 mg/kg
Riboflavin (Vitamin B2) (3a825i) 25 mg/kg
Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6) (3a831) 5 mg/kg
Calcium D-Pantothenate (3a841) 25 mg/kg
Niacinamide (3a314) 25 mg/kg
Folic Acid (3a316) 10 mg/kg
d-Biotin (3a880) 7.5 mg/kg
Cyanocobalamin (Vitamin B12) 100 ug/kg
Copper (3b405) Copper (II) Sulphate Heptahydrate 40 mg/kg
Zinc (3b603) Zinc Oxide 175 mg/kg
Manganese (3b502) Manganous (II) Oxide 150 mg/kg
Iodine (3b202) Calcium Iodate 1.7 mg/kg
Selenium (3b801) Sodium Selenite 0.5 mg/kg