Honeychop Plus Apple for Horses and Ponies, 12.5 kg

Honeychop Plus Apple – 12.5kg

Plus Apple is the traditional Honeychop chaff with apple through it, aimed squarely at the horse that turns its nose up at plain oat straw. Honeychop's product text mentions human-grade apple pieces; their declared ingredient list runs oat straw, molasses blend, apple flavouring, limestone flour, salt and natural preservative.

Underneath it is the same conservation-grade, sun-dried oat straw as the rest of the traditional range, with salt at 25g per kilo and limestone flour for calcium. The apple is there to get feed and supplements eaten, and it does that job well.

Performance & Benefits

• Apple through a conservation-grade oat straw chaff, for horses that need tempting.
• Useful for masking the taste of a powdered supplement or a medicine.
• Salt at 25g/kg and limestone flour for calcium.
• Extends chewing time when mixed into a concentrate feed.
• Sun-dried straw from crops that have not been desiccated.
• Same 23% fibre base as Honeychop Original.

Suitable For

• Fussy feeders and horses off their food.
• Hiding supplements or medication in a feed.
• Horses and ponies in light work, as part of a balanced diet.
• Enrichment for a stabled horse with time on its hands.
• Not a low-sugar feed at 11.5% total sugar — Honeychop Lite & Healthy or Honeychop Chopped Oat Straw are the ones for a laminitic or EMS horse.

Feeding

• Feed alone or mixed through the hard feed.
• Honeychop publish no feeding rate for Plus Apple, so none is stated here.
• Allow for the 25g per kilo of salt if you also feed salt separately.
• Fresh water at all times.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: oat straw, molasses blend, apple flavouring, limestone flour, salt, natural preservative.
• Analysis: fibre 23%, protein 5%, total sugar 11.5%, starch 1.4%, digestible energy 8MJ/kg.
• Honeychop publish no oil, ash or NSC figure for this feed, so none is given here.
• Our previous copy listed apple pieces as a declared ingredient. Honeychop's declared list names apple flavouring, and mentions human-grade apple pieces only in the product text.
• Supplied in a 12.5kg bag; Honeychop do not publish pack sizes.

Care & Caution

• Molassed, at 11.5% total sugar. Honeychop make no laminitis or EMS suitability claim for Plus Apple, and none is made here.