Thunderbrook Meadow Nuts 20kg – Low Sugar Quick-Soak Horse Feed

Thunderbrook Meadow Nuts – 20kg

Meadow Nuts are 100% dried meadow grasses and herbage pressed into 8mm nuts. The meadows behind them are never sown with modern hybrid ryegrasses and never given chemical fertiliser, and the grass is left to reach maturity before cutting — which is what brings the sugar down and the fibre up.

Thunderbrook's analysis, tested in May 2024, puts sugar at 7% and starch at 1%, with 30% crude fibre, 11.5% crude protein and 8.24 MJ/kg. The nuts are tested pesticide and herbicide free. At 8mm they are the right size for a treat ball, and they soak down readily into a mash for a horse that can no longer chew them.

Performance & Benefits

• 100% dried meadow grasses and herbage — nothing else in the bag.
• Sugar 7% and starch 1% on Thunderbrook's own tested analysis.
• 30% crude fibre at 8.24 MJ/kg.
• No modern hybrid ryegrasses, and no chemical fertilisers on the meadows.
• Tested pesticide and herbicide free.
• 8mm nuts, which suits treat balls and forage toys as well as the bucket.

Suitable For

• Complementary forage alongside hay or grazing.
• Treat balls and enrichment for a stabled or box-rested horse.
• Fed dry to a horse with good teeth, or soaked into a mash.
• Thunderbrook also list them as suitable for donkeys, sheep, goats, cattle, alpacas, rabbits and guinea pigs.
• Not the lowest-sugar option in the range — Thunderbrook's Organic Meadow Nuts test at 2.1% sugar if that is the deciding factor.

Feeding

• Thunderbrook's daily range runs from about 400g for a pony in light work up to 7kg for a 700kg horse in hard work.
• Feed dry, or soak into a mash.
• Split larger amounts across several feeds.
• Introduce gradually over several days.
• Fresh water at all times.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: 100% dried meadow grasses and herbage. The grasses include birdsfoot trefoil, cocksfoot, golden foxtail, golden oatgrass, meadow fescue, red fescue, smooth common meadowgrass and timothy.
• Thunderbrook's analysis, tested 16 May 2024: crude protein 11.5%, crude fibre 30%, crude fat 2%, crude ash 10%, sugar 7%, starch 1%, DE 8.24 MJ/kg.
• Magnesium 0.22%, phosphorus 0.31%, sodium 0.03%.
• 8mm nuts. 20kg bag, also made in a 5kg trial pack.
• No chemical fertilisers used on the meadows; the nuts are tested pesticide and herbicide free.