Mansfield Produce & Pet Supplies

14/11/2024

We will be closing early at 12:30 on Saturday 16/11/24 so we can attend an event. Thanks for understanding

03/11/2024

Saturday 9th November we will be closing EARLY at 12 o’clock.

Thanks for understanding

29/10/2024

Only two days until Halloween.
Get your limited edition Kong pumpkin bear before they disappear
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18/10/2024

Apologies for the early closure.
We are attending a trade night and can’t wait to bring back new and exciting toys!

23/09/2024

WE WILL BE CLOSED FRIDAY 27TH SEPTEMBER. See you on Saturday

30/08/2024

🌱At Johnson’s, we’re dedicated to providing totally safe feeds to our customers…both horse and human!

🌱We only chose top quality ingredients to go through our Feedsafe accredited Equine safe mill with multiple stages of testing in our state of the art laboratories, before, during and after production to ensure we are providing your horse safety, quality and premium nutrition in every bag.

🌱Alongside our premium horse feed range, we also produce top quality feeds for some of our other four legged friends, but unlike other mills, we have no harmful antibiotics (like ionophores such as Rumensin and Bovatec) or antiprotozoal agents (like Coccidiostats, also found in poultry feeds) that can be toxic to horses.

🌱Sticking with our environmental values and undertaking research and development we include all natural probiotics instead!
Safe feeds for all our animals and safe for our environment

To learn more about our range & what feed is most suitable for your horse or pony head to naturalformula.com.au

05/07/2024

Clucky chooks? Try this

05/06/2024

We will be closed for the King’s B’day holiday Monday

18/05/2024

Winter hours are coming.
from 27th May until early August we will be closing early at 5pm
Monday - Friday 0830-5pm
Saturday 0830-1:30pm

09/05/2024

We have this in store. Just brilliant for wound healing

Shop in-store and online

08/05/2024

24/04/2024

The Zilco Woolguard combo's have just arrived.

Made for Australasian conditions, this unique 1200D waterproof/breathable ripstop polyester combo is lined with KERSEY WOOL. The kersey wool being fully breathable helps regulate your horse's body temperature, wicking away sweat when necessary whilst keeping the horse warm and dry.

Shoulder Gussets
Double Front straps
Satin lined shoulders
Plain Tail flap
Rump darts for a contoured fit
Removable leg straps
Fleece poll protector
Low set cross-over surcingles
Fully Bound
1-year Warranty

24/04/2024

Out of respect - we will be closed on ANZAC day

13/04/2024

Price reduction
Supershine Black $49.99 ( out of date)

08/04/2024

Sshhhhh! The blue has arrived 🤫

03/04/2024

To Chaff or Not to Chaff? That is the question!

Many horse owners in Australia often ask:
“Do I need to feed chaff to my horse?” Especially in instances where there is an abundance of pasture or ad-lib hay.

In North America, the UK and Europe chaff is generally only fed to horses who are sick or old and unable to chew hay efficiently. The need for making chaff from hay (‘chaffing’) in Australia was initially due to the poor quality dry and fibrous hays which were often wasted and poorly accepted. This trend of feeding chaff was then adopted by other countries who have followed our feeding methods such as New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia and the Middle East.

Types of Chaff🌾
Oaten and wheaten chaff are often referred to as ‘white’ chaff due to their light colour. Oaten hay is grown specially for chaff production and is cut during the milk seed head stage before the plant has reached full maturity. This produces a sweeter and more palatable chaff as the sugars are higher in the leaf and stem during this time.
Alternatively, wheaten chaff tends to consist of more lignified mature fibre (more stalky) due to it typically being made from wheat stubble or a failed wheat crop (for example, due to drought).

Lucerne chaff also referred to as ‘green chaff’ and has a higher protein and natural calcium content than cereal chaff, making it a preferable choice for performance horses as well as aged or growing horses. Lucerne chaff is made from lucerne hay which has been harvested to produce a prime quality chaff with a high leaf content. Many chaff manufacturers also offer mixed chaff consisting of both lucerne and oaten or a combination of lucerne, oaten and wheaten chaff.

Pros and Cons of Feeding Chaff🐴
According to Dr John Kohnke, feeding an equal volume of long chop chaff with your horse’s concentrates (grain feeds) can increase the chewing time and optimise digestive attack and energy uptake from the small intestine. However, feeding more than 1.5 times the volume of chaff (especially short chop) to concentrates can reduce digestive efficiency as the chaff is not chewed properly and smothers the starch, protein and fat digestive enzyme attack. This moves the feed bulk through the small intestine more rapidly (up to 45 cm per minute), reducing the ‘dwell time’ and overall digestive processes.

Chaff can also make a relatively simple and low energy carrier for giving overweight horses and ponies their required supplements. Many horses will happily consume their daily supplements in as little as 200 grams of lucerne chaff which adds very minimal energy to the overall ration.

Furthermore, lucerne chaff can be used in a pre-exercise feed to aid in the prevention of gastric ulcers. Feeding 1 litre per 100 kg of body weight of lucerne hay 30 minutes before exercise was found to reduce the incidence of gastric acid irritation and gastric ulceration in exercising horses by up to 50%, compared to grass hay.

For even better benefit to this pre-exercise ‘snack’, we recommend mixing in 2 scoops of Kohnke’s Own Gastro-Coat into the lucerne chaff. Gastro-Coat helps to increase chewing and saliva production to naturally improve alkaline buffering capacity of stomach acid and also provides a sticky, coating layer to the stomach lining which can resist acid splash and help your horse feel more comfortable during training, travelling and competition.

28/03/2024

Have a happy and safe Easter.
We’ll see you on Tuesday