Rowen Barbary Readymash Extra Horse Feed (Red) - 20 kg

Rowen Barbary ReadyMash Extra – 20kg

ReadyMash Extra is the red bag, and it is ReadyMash with the calories turned up: milk powder, micronised flaked full fat soya and glucose go in on top of the soya hulls, porridge oats, maize and barley. Digestible energy is 11.3 MJ/kg against 10 for the standard mash, with oil at 5.25% and protein at 11.75%.

It still soaks in five minutes, so it does the same job for a horse with poor teeth or one that needs its feed wet, but with enough behind it to put condition on a poor doer. Sugar is declared at 8.5%, the highest of the three Rowen Barbary mashes, which is worth knowing before you buy it.

Performance & Benefits

• 11.3 MJ/kg with 5.25% oil, for conditioning and controlled weight gain.
• Milk powder and micronised flaked full fat soya for quality protein and condition.
• Glucose included, which Rowen Barbary link to electrolyte balance after strenuous work.
• 20.5% fibre from soya hulls to support hindgut function.
• Soaks in five minutes into a very palatable mash.
• Fully balanced with vitamins A, D3 and E.

Suitable For

• Poor doers and horses that need to gain condition.
• Horses recovering from hard or strenuous work.
• Horses with poor teeth that need a conditioning feed they can actually chew.
• Horses that will only eat a wet feed.
• Not for laminitic, insulin-resistant or PPID horses — starch is 18% and sugar 8.5%. Rowen Barbary Solution Mash is the conditioning feed for those.

Feeding

• Soak for 5 minutes with at least equal volumes of dry feed and water, or to your preferred consistency.
• Feed alongside forage, adjusting to workload and body condition.
• Split anything over about 2kg across two feeds.
• Introduce over 7–10 days.
• Supplied in a 20kg bag.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: soya hulls, porridge oats, micronised flaked maize, micronised flaked barley, milk powder, micronised flaked full fat soya, molasses, glucose, soya oil.
• Digestible energy 11.3 MJ/kg. Protein 11.75%. Oil 5.25%. Fibre 20.5%. Starch 18%. Sugar 8.5%.
• Vitamin A 10,000 iu/kg. Vitamin D3 2,000 iu/kg. Vitamin E 100 iu/kg.
• Rowen Barbary publish no ash, calcium, phosphorus or amino acid figure for this mash, so none is stated here.
• The figures above are Rowen Barbary's own declaration; no analysis was previously published for this feed anywhere we could verify.

Care & Caution

• Starch 18% and sugar 8.5%. This is not a feed for a horse with a metabolic condition.
• Soak it fully. A part-soaked mash keeps swelling after it has been eaten.
• Introduce it gradually — it is the highest-energy mash in the Rowen Barbary range.