Fiber Fresh Equine - New Zealand

🐴 LUCERNE — WHAT’S SO GOOD ABOUT IT?
There’s a reason lucerne is such a valuable forage for horses!

💪 QUALITY PROTEIN
Lucerne provides quality protein and essential amino acids, including lysine, helping support muscle development, repair and overall condition.

🌿 HIGHLY DIGESTIBLE FIBRE
Its digestible fibre is fermented in the hindgut, providing a source of slow-release energy while supporting healthy digestive function.

💚 GUT FRIENDLY & NATURALLY LOW IN SUGAR
Lucerne is naturally low in sugar and provides plenty of structural fibre to support a healthy hindgut and the beneficial microbes that live there.

Good nutrition starts with quality forage.

🌱 Spring grass = Spring fever?

Is your horse feeling a little too good right now? It might just be the lush spring pasture! Fresh growth is packed with sugars and fructans that can trigger excitable behaviour, loose manure, gut upset, laminitis and even colic.

👉 What can you do?
• Limit pasture intake (strip graze, muzzle, track systems).
• Always meet fibre needs (min. 1.5% bodyweight DM).
• Swap some grass for low-sugar forages with Fiber Fresh:
✨ Fiber Protect® – premium fresh-cut Lucerne, naturally low in starch + sugars, great for gut health and performance horses.
✨ Fiber Ezy® – Lucerne blended with fresh Timothy grass for a moderate energy and protein forage, ideal for a wide range of horses.
✨ Fiber Meadow® – a lucerne-free balanced mix of specialty high-fibre grasses, perfect for good-doers or horses needing cool, steady energy.

🍀 Example: A 500kg horse on unrestricted spring grass could be eating almost 3kg of sugar daily! By replacing part of the grass in the diet with FiberProtect®, you can cut sugars by at least 50% — reducing unwanted “spring fizz” and supporting a healthier gut.

Your horses and ponies will eat a set amount of food each day, so replacing high sugar feeds with low sugar Fiber Fresh products is really the easiest way to control our four legged friends' sugar intake this Spring!

💡 Keep the ride smooth this spring — fuel with safe fibre, and avoid the sugar spikes!

Do You Actually Know What's In That Scoop?

Here's a question that trips up even seasoned horse owners: how much does your horse's feed actually weigh?

If you're measuring by the scoop, the honest answer is usually “no idea” — and that's a problem. A scoop measures volume, not weight. Two feeds that fill the same scoop can weigh completely differently depending on how dense they are, how they're packed, and how moist they are. So the “one scoop” you think you're feeding could be well under, or well over, what your horse actually needs.

Why weighing matters:
Your horse's diet is built on numbers — energy, protein, and most importantly, fibre. Get the weights wrong and the whole ration is off. Underfeed and you risk a horse that drops condition and misses out on the forage its gut is designed to run on. Overfeed and you're wasting feed (and money) and potentially tipping the balance toward digestive upset.
Weighing takes the guesswork out. Suddenly you know exactly what your horse is getting.

How much fibre does your horse need?
Horses are trickle-feeders — their digestive systems are built to have fibre moving through, all day, every day. As a rule of thumb, a horse needs a minimum of 1.5% of its bodyweight in forage/fibre daily, and ideally forage should make up at least half of total daily intake.

For a 500kg horse, that's at least 7.5kg of forage a day — and many need more. That's a lot of ground to make up if your scoop is quietly short-changing them.

The easy fix:
Grab a set of scales. Weigh a scoop of each feed once, write it on the bin, and you'll never have to guess again. With Fiber Fresh, a good starting point is roughly 0.5kg per 100kg of bodyweight — but always feed by weight, not volume.
Your scales might be the cheapest piece of gear in the feed room. They're also one of the most important.

🐎 GUESS THE FIBER FRESH PRODUCT…

You probably associate me with racing 🏇 — but racehorses aren’t the only athletes that can benefit from me!

🌿 I’m made from lucerne + whole oat crop
⚡ I provide slow-release, sustained energy from the forage component of the diet
🏇 I’m suited to horses in vigorous exercise programmes where additional sustained energy is required
🐴 Think eventers, show jumpers, racehorses and high-performance horses that can feel a little sluggish when the workload increases
💧 I’m naturally moist, helping support hydration during demanding work
🔥 My fibre-based energy helps provide sustained fuel for performance, rather than relying solely on higher levels of grain
💚 And despite my name, I contain just 10% starch + soluble sugars combined

Which Fiber Fresh product am I? 👀
Drop your guess below 👇

Head over and check out some of the stuff we have donated to the Canter for Cancer Auction.
There is some pretty cool items up for grabs!

And don't forget all proceeds go to Child Cancer Foundation

🚨 THE 2026 C4C AUCTION IS NOW LIVE!

Bidding is officially OPEN! 🎉

The 2026 C4C Annual Auction for Child Cancer is here – and we've got OVER $46,000 in amazing items up for grabs! From vouchers and getaways to exclusive experiences – there's something for everyone!

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Let the bidding begin! 🎗️💛

Have you ever seen a partnership quite like 24 // Showjumper // NZ 🇳🇿 and Normandy GHP? 🤩

Tonight, Soph and Norm step onto the world stage at the FEI World Championships in Aachen—and what an incredible achievement it is just to be there, representing New Zealand among the very best.

We’re so proud to have Soph as one of our sponsored riders and will be cheering loudly from back home in NZ. Wishing you and Norm the very best of luck—enjoy every moment and give it everything!

Go Soph, go Norm and go Team NZ! 🇳🇿🖤🤍

🌾 Fiber Fresh Feeding Tip! 🌾

Here’s a golden rule: Once you open a bag of Fiber Fresh, you’ve got 10–14 days to feed it out for the best quality and freshness.

💯 We have done various testing under different temperature and storage conditions therefore we can ensure you once your bag is opened and is stored correctly it will last 10-14 days at a minimum — because we’re all about quality. ✅

🧊 Store it right:
✔️ Leave it in the original bag
✔️ Open along the long side
✔️ Keep it in a cool, dry place
❌ Don’t transfer into plastic — it can sweat and spoil

Feed smart. Store right. Ride happy.