Equilibrium Vitamunch Heavenly Hedgerow 1kg

Equilibrium Vitamunch Heavenly Hedgerow – 1kg Fibre Block

Heavenly Hedgerow is the rosehip and hawthorn version of Vitamunch: high-temperature dried timothy grass at 95%, with alfalfa and salt, plus dried rosehip shells at 0.3% and hawthorn leaves at 0.3%. Those two hedgerow plants are the only thing separating it from the meadow version.

The block is fortified as well as compressed. Equilibrium state that one Vitamunch supplies 50% of the published daily vitamin and trace element requirement for a 500kg horse in light work, which makes it more than a boredom breaker — it is doing a modest amount of nutritional work too.

Performance & Benefits

• Timothy grass, high temperature dried, at 95% of the block.
• Dried rosehip shells at 0.3% and hawthorn leaves at 0.3%.
• One block provides 50% of published daily vitamin and trace element requirements for a 500kg horse in light work.
• Crude fibre 30% and sugar 9.5%.
• Compressed hard, so a horse takes real time to get through it.
• Feeds dry, or soaked, which softens and fluffs the block out.

Suitable For

• Stabled horses and horses on box rest.
• Travelling and competition days, as a compact forage.
• Horses with poor dentition, provided the block is soaked first.
• Equilibrium state Munch blocks can be used as part of the dietary management of horses at risk of, or prone to, laminitis.
• Not the lowest-sugar option in the range at 9.5% — Equilibrium's LiteMunch is declared at 6%.

Feeding

• Equilibrium's stated rate is up to two blocks per day.
• Feed whole from the floor, a bucket or a munch net.
• Soak to soften for an older horse, or to make a warm feed in winter.
• Hide one inside a haynet to make a horse forage for it.
• Fresh, clean water alongside at all times.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: timothy grass, high temperature dried (95%); alfalfa, high temperature dried; salt; dried rosehip shells (0.3%); hawthorn leaves (0.3%).
• Crude protein 9%. Crude fat 1.8%. Crude fibre 30%. Crude ash 6%.
• Sugar 9.5%. Sodium 0.4%.
• Equilibrium publish no starch figure for Vitamunch, so none is stated here.
• 1kg block; Equilibrium also sell them in packs of five.