Red Mills Comfort Mash – 18kg Horse Feed

Red Mills Comfort Mash – 18kg

Comfort Mash is RED MILLS' quick-soaking bran mash: a wheatbran base carrying steam-cooked maize and barley flakes, alfalfa and soya oil, built to be soaked and fed warm rather than dry. RED MILLS describe it as a nutritionally balanced, high-fibre conditioning bran mash that is oat-free and high in oil, and the analysis bears that out at 12% crude fibre and 7% oil.

It is the feed you reach for when a horse has gone off its food, has just travelled, or has just foaled — the soaked format carries water into the gut and keeps things moving. At 12.4 MJ/kg it is a real feed, not a token bucket of bran, so it counts towards the daily ration rather than sitting on top of it.

Performance & Benefits

• Quick-soaking bran mash, fed wet, for horses that need tempting or rehydrating.
• 12.4 MJ/kg digestible energy with 12.0% crude protein — a conditioning feed rather than a token mash.
• 7.0% crude oils and fats, for condition and coat shine without leaning on cereal starch alone.
• 12.0% crude fibre from soya bean hulls, alfalfa meal and chopped alfalfa.
• Oat-free, with steam-cooked maize and barley flakes for digestibility.
• Fortified to 15,000 iu vitamin A, 2,000 iu vitamin D3 and 300 iu vitamin E per kilogram.

Suitable For

• Horses that have gone off their feed and need appetite stimulating.
• Mares after foaling.
• Horses that travel and compete regularly, where hydration and gut motility matter.
• Horses needing to gain condition on a palatable, easily eaten feed.
• Not a feed for a laminitic or insulin-resistant horse — RED MILLS publish no starch figure for Comfort Mash, and it carries cooked cereal flakes and cane molasses. Red Mills Horse Care ULTRA Cubes, at a declared 4.0% starch, is the one in this range formulated for those horses.

Feeding

• Light work: 1.0–3.0kg daily for a 500kg horse (0.8–2.4kg at 400kg, 1.2–3.6kg at 600kg).
• Moderate work: 2.0–4.0kg daily for a 500kg horse.
• Hard work: 4.0–6.0kg daily for a 500kg horse.
• Very hard work: 6.0–8.0kg daily for a 500kg horse.
• RED MILLS set a ceiling of 400g per 100kg bodyweight in any single meal — 2kg for a 500kg horse. Split the daily amount accordingly.
• All rates are dry weight, before soaking. Feed alongside good forage and clean, fresh water.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: wheatbran, maize flakes (steam cooked), soya bean hulls, barley flakes (steam cooked), alfalfa meal, cane molasses, barley, soya oil, sunflower seed meal, wheatfeed, pea flakes, chopped alfalfa, soya bean meal, wheat, calcium carbonate, mono-dicalcium phosphate, sodium chloride, magnesium oxide.
• Typical analysis: crude protein 12.0%, crude fibre 12.0%, crude oils and fats 7.0%, crude ash 7.6%. Digestible energy 12.4 MJ/kg.
• Minerals: calcium 1.15%, phosphorus 0.75%, sodium 0.31%, chloride 0.66%, potassium 1.07%, magnesium 0.30%.
• Per kg: vitamin A 15,000 iu, vitamin D3 2,000 iu, vitamin E 300 iu. Iron 120mg, iodine 1.5mg, copper 60mg, manganese 100mg, zinc 180mg, selenium 0.5mg.
• RED MILLS publish no starch or sugar figure for Comfort Mash, so none is stated here.
• Earlier copy on this page listed grassmeal, oat flakes, garlic and a herb blend among the ingredients. None of those appear in RED MILLS' own declared composition, and RED MILLS describe the feed as oat-free; the list above is theirs.

Care & Caution

• No starch figure is published, and the feed contains cooked cereals and cane molasses. Do not treat it as a safe choice for a laminitic, insulin-resistant or EMS horse.
• Observe the 400g per 100kg bodyweight per meal limit — a large single mash of cereal-based feed is a colic and laminitis risk.
• Introduce gradually over 7–14 days alongside the existing ration.