Feedchar

29/08/2024

Beautiful Animals Love Aussie FEEDCHAR® certified minerals + charcoal lick, for economical gut balance support through all seasons!

Photo Tracey McPhee Neddy Park Equestrian Centre Victoria.

28/08/2024

** SPRING IS HERE ** Natural & Organic Aussie Feedchar® Minerals + Charcoal Supports Animal Gut Balance thru all Seasons.
With Gut Balance, Nutrition is Accessed!
Ask Your Stockist for FEEDCHAR®
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Consultants on and owners of Agspand’s FEEDCHAR®, certified mineral–charcoal feed supplement for animal digestive health and body condition.

31/07/2024

Wishing a blissful birthday to all the noble horses, may your day be as strong and graceful as you are. Let's hope your owners are adding Feedchar to your diet.

19/07/2024

Following a prolonged dry spell, the recent rain and overcast weather in Tasmania have led to a decrease in temperature. Some horse paddocks will contain an abundance of capeweed, dock, and high endophyte grasses, which have a significant impact on your horse's health. Reports of Laminitis are already being heard. We suggest doubling the dose rates of Feedchar, adding magnesium and salt to their diet, and providing plenty of grass hay in hay nets for them to chew on all day. If you're not hard feeding your horse, add Feedchar to their hay.
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Consultants on and owners of Agspand’s FEEDCHAR®, certified mineral–charcoal feed supplement for animal digestive health and body condition.

14/07/2024

Simple, Natural & Organic FEEDCHAR®!

13/07/2024

Optimize your calving season with Feedchar. Give your calves the best possible start today.
Looking for healthy heavy calves weaned at 10 weeks.

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Contact us to discuss your needs

12/07/2024

Calving season approaching? Feedchar®️ feed-grade biochar-charcoal + minerals lick supports gut health for their crakka start in life, like these great calves. Order Feedchar now for your calves' long-term health and profitability.

Feedchar @ Yolla, Ag Warehouse, Elders

09/06/2024

Practical, experienced advice ❤

EVERY horse and pony is capable of becoming Laminitic!

There are just those that are more prone than others. Some horses may spend a lot of their life in a sub-clinical state but due to seasonal variations, they may 'cope' ok. That is until too many cards become stacked against them and they succumb to this debilitating condition.
Laminitis isn't just a 'Pony' thing!
All horses and ponies are susceptible under the wrong/right conditions.
Management Plans:
• Do you have somewhere that you can safely lock up your horse or pony during higher-risk times or if they are already getting sore or showing signs of sub-clinical Laminitis?
• Have you checked your GutzBusta Hay Net supply to make sure you have them on hand if you do need to start locking your horse and pony up?
• Are you getting your equine's hooves regularly attended to? In Spring and Summer, they can tend to grow faster. 6 weeks is way too long in most cases. This applies to both shod and unshod hooves.
• Diet - Have you found 'safe' hay that is less than 10% in ESC and starch?
• Are you watching weather, growth rates and times of day and taking these into consideration for managing your horse or pony? See our last email for more information on this topic and post above.
• Exercise - even 20 minutes of hand walking 3 to 4 times a week can be helpful.
• Movement - Horses are meant to move. Having a buddy will increase this movement and keep them content.
• Reduce stress.
To read this Blog in it's entirety, please click here:
https://gutzbusta.com.au/blogs/gutzbusta-hay-nets-blog/autumn-pasture-cautions

09/06/2024

Congrats to all equine entrants and committee for a great community weekend! Campbell Town Show Tasmania

Always a crowd favourite, the ponyclub events, hosted by the Midlands Ponyclub, did not disappoint!
Congratulations to Bonnie Dennis riding Raevon River Card who won Champion PonyClub rider for the whole day 🏆

Thankyou to Feedchar, Scoot Boot and Prue’s Equine for your generous donation of prizes for our equestrian competitors.

📸 Sarah Johnston

31/05/2024

SHEEP, WOOL & FEEDCHAR®️ @ Campbell Town Show Tasmania 💚 Great to meet up with friends and see some quality lambs and natural fleece!

04/05/2024

Very happy to see these ladies so happy . Thankyou Tracey Anne McPhee for your support. Neddy Park Equestrian Centre if you are looking for a top weekend away with your horse and friends we highly recommend giving Tracey a call. Look how much fun these ladies are having .

03/05/2024

THANK YOU Rural Youth Team for presenting Agspand's FEEDCHAR®️ and PETCHAR®️ with a 2024 Best Site Award Agfest Field Days, Tasmania!

Super Chuffed to receive this award!

Most grateful to our ripper team who helped make this happen - Dave, Tim, Nelly and Mel, you are legends!

Drop in to the Equine Arena today to Talk Horses with trainers and breeders Firestone Lodge Barock Friesian Pinto's and Adam Sutton Allround Horsemanship.

28/04/2024

👀AGFEST SPECIALS on Agspand’s FEEDCHAR® for Horses and All Farm Animals!

8 YEARS Feedchar®💚Horses.

EQUINE ARENA, north-east Agfest.

FULL PROGRAMS over all 3 Days.

On Site Reps Firestone Lodge Barock Friesian Pinto's & Adam Sutton Allround Horsemanship.

Agfest Field Days, Tasmania Pony Club Australia Northern Tasmanian Quarter Horse Association Inc. Bushy Park Show Equestrian Events 2024 Equestrian Tasmania

27/04/2024

DAIRY FARM Health & Profits with Agspand’s FEEDCHAR®, certified biochar + mineral loose lick — proudly Tassie Made!

@ AGFEST Dairy Tas PAVILION, South St S38.

Feedchar® 4 animals, soils, pastures, farms.

Dairy Farming Tasmania Agfest Field Days, Tasmania Young Dairy Network - Tasmania TasFarmers Farmers for Climate Action Regenerative Agriculture Network of Tasmania

Agspand’s Feedchar® for horses and farm animals is a certified Aussie digestive aid and toxin binder

27/04/2024

💚 AGFEST DEALS on Agspand’s FEEDCHAR®, certified mineral + charcoal-biochar for Horses and All Farm Animals.

Agspand’s Feedchar® is on TWO SITES:

@ Equine & Livestock Arena, NE Agfest.

@ Dairy Tas Pavilion, South S38 Agfest.

AGSPAND healthy, profitable agriculture.

** Proudly Tassie Made! **

Agfest Field Days, Tasmania Regenerative Agriculture Network of Tasmania Farmers for Climate Action TasFarmers Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture

26/04/2024

Farmers for Climate Action Chair Brett Hall is the VIP Guest Speaker at ANZ Biochar Industry Group - ANZBIG Tassie Forum, on 7 May. Multiple expert speakers on circular-economy biochar-carbon for farms and community uses! Virtual and Live Registration, Link below.
https://anzbig.org/events/

Our chair, Brett Hall, is speaking at the upcoming ANZ Biochar Industry Group's forum in Launceston for the national rollout of the 2030 Biochar Industry Roadmap!

🗓️ May 7th, 9AM - 4:30PM AEST
📍The Tramsheds, Inveresk, Launceston

Both Virtual and Live Registrations are possible.

Bookings are essential - if you're keen, make sure to register at https://anzbig.org/events/!

20/04/2024

Getting ready for the Autumn break - a few bulk bags going out of Agspand's Feedchar®️, feed-grade toxin binder and digestive aid for Dairies and Livestock.
Dairy Farming Tasmania

18/04/2024

Due to the rain and colder nights, ryegrass staggers is a concern. Ensure that animals' diets include a double dose of Feedchar, including magnesium.

At certain times of the year, particularly autumn and winter, elevated nitrate and carbohydrate levels and endophytes or fungi containing mycotoxins commonly appear on and in grasses. These can also linger for a number of years in hay and grain-based feeds harvested off high-nitrate and high-endophyte plants.

Mycotoxins are compounds in the fungi that interfere with an animal’s digestive wellbeing and condition. They can affect an animal’s nervous system and make them agitated, flighty, and sensitive around the abdomen. In severe cases, mycotoxicity can contribute towards laminitis, skin itch and allergies, weight loss, scours and reproductive disorders.

Ruminant animals such as cattle and sheep experiencing plant toxicity show signs of ill-thrift and scouring. This affects their weight gain and creates stress for the animals, with the possible knock-on effects of dark-cutting meat and poor growth rates.

Recent research on Finishing Steers by Matthew Reynolds and Kim Stanford et al. (2023) showed that the effects on the cattle of Ergot mycotoxin in their feed, was decreased DMI (dry matter intake) and ADG (average daily gain), decreased total shrunk body weight gain, final body weight and carcass weight, and decreased number of AAA graded carcasses (DOI:10.1093/jas/skad281.159).

Mycotoxins are found in endophytic fungi, which live in the plants, as well as saprophytic fungi, living on the plants. Endophytes are a plant’s means of self-protection against insect attack or animal overgrazing. Concentrations of endophytic fungi appear on the head of the plant when it is stressed from lack of moisture, or when the soil nitrogen is high.

Endophytes typically occur in phalaris, tall fescue grasses and perennial ryegrass. High-acid soils and overgrazing can lead to excess flatweeds, high nitrate accumulators. Horse paddocks can be covered in all these plants because often they have been overgrazed for years and receive little attention. In their battle for survival the remaining plants’ defence is to contain high levels of endophytes at the base-sheath of the plant in its new stages of growth (early spring and autumn), and also on the seed-heads in summer.

Supplementing Agspand’s Feedchar®, along with a quality diverse diet and movement, might assist animals with plant toxins and pathogens. Animals may show less physical discomfort and stress from plant potency and toxicity. Testimonials from clients describe how Agspand’s Feedchar has supported their animals’ gut health, behaviour, body condition and immunity, as well as long-term healthy soil and pasture outcomes, which also benefits animal health.

Agspand’s Feedchar® is Australian feed-quality plant charcoal with a percentage of certified mineral clay, which contains a range of safe trace elements in small amounts such as magnesium, calcium, silicon, potassium, and sodium. Both feed-safe organic charcoal and natural mineral clay are gut balancers and toxin binders that animals source for themselves in the wild to assist with plant potencies and plant-toxin effects. The elemental breakdowns of charcoal and clay are freely available online.

Agspand’s Feedchar is a Registered Trademark product in Australia and a Certified Allowed Input for Organic Farming, number SXC 19091.

18/04/2024

BIOCHAR Tasmanian Forum with National Expert Group ANZ Biochar Industry Group - ANZBIG Launceston Tramsheds 7 May, Program Out Now!
Learn about local non-fossil-fuel biochar-carbon sequestration and regenerative farming benefits.
REGISTRATION Virtual or Live 7 May Launceston: https://anzbig.org/events/

Regenerative Agriculture Network of Tasmania NRM North Tamar NRM Landcare Tasmania Farmers for Climate Action ABC Northern Tasmania The Examiner Newspaper, Launceston TasFarmers Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture City of Launceston Official

13/04/2024

The Equestrian Sport requires dedicated team work! So proud of our OTT Feedchar Sponsored Riders and their well deserved, excellent results!

8 Years FEEDCHAR®️ Aussie Quality Digestive Aid & Toxin Binder 💚 From local stockists.

Photo M. Goodson Elegant Exposures - EE.

07/04/2024

CATTLE Producers - looking to get the best out of your Genetics and give your young stock the best possible start? Talk to Agspand about our bulk supplies of FEEDCHAR®️. The best, economical Aussie toxin binder and digestive aid for your livestock. Triple Aussie Health Benefits for stock, soils & pastures FEEDCHAR. www.agspand.com.au

06/04/2024

Fantastic results for long-term Feedchar user, Nervous Neddy's Breathe, Relax, Ride THANK YOU

Love looking back at photos 🥰 This is my boy Ville 😍 I have been feeding him Feedchar all these years which has so many benefits with anxiety, allergies, laminitis, overheating, ulcers, nervous tension, this is just to name a few with digestion related issues. With grasses changing all the time with our seasons. Feedchar is a certified mineral - charcoal gut balancer. I highly recommend and is very affordable. All my horses will continue to have this fantastic supplement in their daily feeds 😍❤️🥰

01/04/2024

AUTUMN RAIN's Short Green Grass after Dry Season May be high in Mycotoxins & Nitrates.
Horses and ruminants can do with More Feedchar and magnesium this time of the year.

https://agspand.com.au/mycotoxin-effects-on-horses-and-livestock/

28/03/2024

Off The Track QLD Queensland Off The Track RISING PRINCE MEMORIAL EX- RACEHORSE REHOMING AND TRAINING Equestrian Events SE Qld
QLD Horse owners, with all the wet weather you are having, are your horses doing as well as they could? Have a look into Feedchar, you might just be surprised how well it works in dealing with toxins and supporting the digestive system of your horse.
At just $0.42 cents a day, it's affordable.
https://agspand.com.au/mycotoxin-effects-on-horses-and-livestock/
6 weeks between pictures Deirdre Stein, well-known horse retrainer Beenleigh Qld.

27/03/2024

Horse owners, The Feedchar Challenge (Same Horse) - first picture before starting on Feedchar, second picture - what a difference Feedchar makes! $0.42 cents a day.
The best Toxin Binder and Digestive Aid for your horse and it's affordable. Good for your horse AND good for your soil. Feedchar®️.
www.agspand.com.au

19/03/2024

All these horses are on Feedchar.
Look at the condition of them!
Only $0.43 cents a day to add Feedchar to your horse's diet.
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