Thunderbrook Healthy Herbal Treats 1kg

Thunderbrook Healthy Herbal Treats – 1kg

These are Thunderbrook's treats, and they are made the way the rest of the range is made: dried alpine grasses and dried alpine herbs with a little mint oil, and nothing else at all. Thunderbrook list them free from preservatives, binders, additives, straw and waste by-product fibre, which is more than most horse treats can claim.

The analysis reads like a forage analysis rather than a confectionery one — 11% crude protein, 26% crude fibre and 0.2% crude fat. Thunderbrook publish no sugar or starch figure for the treats, so none is stated here; what can be said is that the ingredients are the same dried grasses and herbs that go into their chaff and their cobs.

Performance & Benefits

• Dried alpine grasses, dried alpine herbs and mint oil — three ingredients.
• No preservatives, binders, additives, straw or waste by-product fibre.
• 26% crude fibre, so this is a forage treat rather than a cereal one.
• Mint for palatability, which is what makes them work as a reward.
• 1kg bag, small enough to live in a grooming box or a jacket pocket.

Suitable For

• Rewarding in hand, under saddle or at the end of a schooling session.
• Horses already on a Thunderbrook forage-based diet, so the treat matches the feed.
• Owners avoiding cereal-based or molassed treats.
• Scattering into a bucket or a forage ball for enrichment.
• Not a feed and not a balancer — the daily ration should not be built on them.

Feeding

• Feed by hand as a reward, or scatter a few into the bucket.
• Occasional rather than routine — these are a treat, not part of the ration.
• Keep the bag closed between uses.
• Fresh water at all times.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: dried alpine grasses, dried alpine herbs, mint oil (1ml).
• Thunderbrook's analysis: crude protein 11%, crude fibre 26%, crude ash 8%, crude fat 0.2%, sodium 0.08%.
• Thunderbrook publish no sugar or starch figure for the treats, so none is stated here.
• Free from preservatives, binders, additives, straw and waste by-product fibre.
• 1kg bag. Thunderbrook also make a 4kg.
• Thunderbrook's own name for the product is Healthy Herbal Treats – with added Mint.