Hartog Senior

Description

Discover the 5 unique properties of the Hartog Senior roughage mix for old horses! Very suitable for: ✓older horses, ✓horses with dental problems ✓ underweight horses

Hartog Senior with 5 unique properties:

• Extremely suitable for older horses, horses with reduced chewing capacity and rehabilitating horses
• Very tasty and complete roughage (substitute for roughage and concentrate)
• Enriched with balancer of vitamins, minerals, and (organically bound) trace elements
• Support for physical and mental health from natural sources
• Low sugar and starch content, free from grains and molasses

The ration of older horses should consist of 70% to 100% roughage. It is therefore important for older horses with dental problems to have fiber rich roughage for as long as possible. Clogs are made quickly from hay or silage grass. The horse cannot get rid of it anymore or the horse finds the palatability insufficient. Older horses are often offered a slobber or muesli. However, the crude fiber content in these feeds are very low, therefore acidification occurs earlier in the intestinal flora. The consequence of an acidic intestinal flora is a reduced absorption of nutrients and ultimately colic. Fiber-rich roughage is also important to stimulate saliva production during chewing. Roughage is chewed for at least twice as long as concentrate feed, so more saliva is formed. Saliva prevents esophageal problems and neutralizes excess stomach acid due to the high content of acid-buffering sodium carbonate. That is why Hartog has developed a complete and unique roughage for the older horse with a fine structure. In this way, older horses and horses with reduced chewing capacity can grow old healthy and fit.

Grow old Healthy and fit with the Senior

Older horses need tailor-made senior food. This food takes physical and mental changes of the horse into account. For example, many older horses have dental problems and reduced chewing capacity. As a result, hay and pre-dried silage are eaten worse. They salivate more and make crams of the long and stony roughage. The Senior is the ideal roughage replacement due to its fine structure. This feed takes into account the fact that many older horses lose weight quickly. The roughage mix contains all the essential vitamins, minerals and trace elements that the older horse needs and it contains a wide variety of fibers from artificially dried grass, alfalfa, green harvested barley straw and beet pulp.
For who is this very complete roughage mix suitable?

Every race, gender and every age! But particularly suitable for:

• Older horses
• Horses with reduced chewing capacity
• Underweight horses
• Sugar-sensitive horses
• Rehabilitating horses
• Optimizing the roughage ration

Feed management for older horses is a challenge. There is no set criteria that defines a “senior horse” or an “old horse”. The nutritional needs of older horses are different from those of adult horses due to changes in their metabolism and reduced digestive efficiency. The first step to a suitable ration for the senior horse is to determine whether the horse is a senior. There is no fixed chronological age from when a horse is considered a senior. Generally the line is drawn at 18 or 20 years. You can also determine whether a horse is a senior by looking at the physiological status (the vitality) and physical signs of aging.