Today’s horses are typically limited to a single type of forage in one geographic area. Pastures in the same area or even different sections of the same pasture can have inconsistent nutrient values. Unfortified grains such as straight oats and corn can also have variable amounts of protein, minerals and vitamins. So horses need your help to achieve the nutritional balance they once derived naturally.
Enrich Plus® Ration Balancing Feed Adds Necessary Nutrients to Your Horse’s Diet
Enrich Plus® is a concentrated, pelleted ration balancing horse feed that may be fed as a horse’s sole ration along with quality hay or pasture to provide the proper balance of protein, vitamins and minerals without unnecessary calories. It can also be fed with unfortified whole grains.
Enrich Plus® Ration Balancing Feed is Best Suited for:
-Easy Keepers: Easy Keepers who maintain body weight and condition on hay or pasture alone, or are not able to eat the minimum recommended amount of another feed without gaining unwanted weight.
-Young, Growing Horses: Young, Growing Horses who may require concentrated nutrition to support growth and development, but with fewer calories to support slower growth rate or reduced body condition when recommended.
- Stallions & Early Gestation Mares: Stallions & Early Gestation Mares that may need a more concentrated source of nutrition. Also appropriate for working horses who may need a protein, vitamin and mineral supplementation.
Features & Benefits
Added Antioxidants
Including Selenium and Vitamin E to help address the damaging effects of free radicals
Added Vegetable Oils
For a shinier, healthier hair coat, skin and hooves
B Vitamins
Help maintain metabolic function
Concentrate Feed
Designed to be fed with hay or pasture
Concentrated Formula
Provides required nutrition without excess calories
Corn-free and Oat-Free
For horses with specific sensitivities
High Quality Protein
With essential amino acids Lysine and Methionine to support muscle maintenance, growth and repair
Low Starch & Sugar
Concentrated formula with no grain and low starch and sugar
Protein, Vitamin & Mineral Fortification
Fills nutritional gaps common in forage and unfortified grains
Quality Ingredients
Highly digestible and naturally palatable
Vitamin & Mineral Fortification
Provides 100% of the required vitamins and minerals when fed as directed
Based on “Nutrient Requirements of Horses Sixth Revised Edition–2007” published by the National Research Council
Weight Management
Formulated by PhD Equine Nutritionists to provide necessary nutrition without excess calories
Nutrients
Feeding Directions
Description
Age in months | 4–8 | 9–17 | 18–24 |
Weight of Horse in Pounds | 400–700 | 700–900 | 900–1,000 |
Minimum Hay or Equivalent Pasture (lbs/day) | 8–14 | 14–18 | 18–20 |
| | Enrich Plus® Ration Balancing Feed (lbs/day) | ||
| | 2.5–3.0 | 2.0–2.5 | 2.0 |
Maintenance and Reproduction (based on 1,100-pound mature horse)
Lifestyle | Hay (lbs/day) | Enrich Plus® Ration Balancing Feed (lbs/day) |
Horses at maintenance and broodmares through the 2nd trimester of gestation | 22 | 1–2 |
Moderate Performance
Lifestyle | Hay (lbs/day) | Enrich Plus® Ration Balancing Feed (lbs/day) |
Horses performing occasional work or recreational activities | 22 | 1.5-2.5 |
For horses sensitive to dietary carbohydrates, please consult with a veterinarian or nutritionist for a recommended diet.
Best Results
- For horses sensitive to dietary soluble carbohydrates, please consult with a veterinarian or nutritionist for a recommended diet.
- The recommended feeding rate should not be exceeded.
- Feed at regular times.
- Do not feed more than 0.5 pounds per 100 pounds of body weight in one serving.
- Divide total daily feeding into at least two servings with three daily servings preferred.
- Be sure to weigh your feed using a scale. A small scale can be purchased in the fishing department of many sporting goods stores.
- Do not feed free-choice.
- Feed horse in a natural position from troughs placed at normal head height or lower.
- Reduce and/or delay feeding a horse that is hot, excited or showing pain, fever or diarrhea. Consult your veterinarian if any problems arise.
- Prevent rapid eating.
- Have plenty of fresh, clean water available at all times.
- Provide your horse with access to salt.
- Maintain a regular deworming program, have the horse's teeth examined annually and consult your veterinarian on a regular basis.
Changing To
- Make the feed change gradually over a period of 7 to 10 days.
- Mix the new feed with the old, gradually increasing the amount of the new feed while decreasing an equal amount of the old.
- Changes in the rate of feeding should not exceed 1 pound per day for each horse.