Dogs and kids pick the most opportune moments to contribute to filming 🤣😂
Constant chewing of fibre in the form of hay keeps horses happy in this gut, mind and body. 🥰
Keep your horses happy this summer by always having hay available.
Nikki here! Over the last 6 weeks, we have been sending out regular emails to remind you about the many things there are to consider at this time of year, particularly if you have a laminitic, IR/Cushings or any metabolic suffering horse or pony.
We have now made this into a Blog, so if you have missed any of these emails, or you would like a summary all in one place, then please click here!
I have added a few snippets as a reminder of this valuable information below 😉
At GutzBusta, we’re committed to helping you keep your horse safe, so we’ve put together some news, tips, and advice to help you during Spring and into Summer.
When is your pasture safest?
Higher easily digestible carbohydrate content in your pasture is potentially dangerous to all horses while they’re transitioning from a low-grass/hay-based diet to the flush of feed in Spring. But animals that are IR, have Cushing’s disease or are overweight are even more susceptible to laminitis, so you need to work out when or even if your pasture is safe.
The general rules of assessing whether your pasture is ‘safe’ or not are determined by both temperature and sunlight on the plant:
• When the night temperatures are below 41°F, the grass is too high in sugar and starch due to the stress on the grass.
• Once it gets above 41°F at night, the lowest plant sugar and starch level is before sunrise
• Anything that stresses a plant will raise the sugar levels eg: drought or frost or importantly - overgrazing!
• Sunny days: The NSC levels are highest in the afternoon/evening
• Overcast or cloudy days: Grass produces less sugar and starch due to less photosynthesis taking place, so pasture is a little safer.
Unfortunately, there are some horses and ponies that are never in a position to be put out to pasture for longer than an hour a day, if at all at certain times of the year.
It is important to seek veterinary/trimmer/farrier/equine nutritionist help when dealing wit
A rainy day here today, so happy to have a fresh round bale for the ponies 🥰
Here at GutzBusta, we have a large range of slow feeding options that help keep your horses happy, healthy and offer enrichment 🤩
Ponies enjoying some great nets for brunch 😍
just love this time of year... cool nights for better sleeping, warm sunny days for great photos ❤️😉🤣
Happy Ponies 🐴🐎
Our side loading larges are simply awesome and easy to fill. Available in a large range of hay net hole sizes to suit your individual needs.
Excellent for reducing feed times and making sure your horses, ponies or livestock have continual access to feed.
Thanks for your help Zoe 😅🤣😂
At GutzBusta, we have an enormous range of hay nets. 😀 we also have a huge range of hay net hole sizes starting at 2cm, 3cm, 4cm and 6cm. 🤩
Visit our store to see our range. Www.gutzbusta.com
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If your horses 🐎 are getting a bit fussy and leaving some of the hay in their hay net, then a great way to help this is to add a biscuit of something really palatable like Lucerne (alfalfa).
Here I just open up this medium 3cm knotted hay net, make a hole in the middle of the remaining hay, insert the more palatable biscuit, fluff up all hay inside and then re-hang the hay net back up.
If there is nothing wrong with the hay in the hay net, it's just not as yummy anymore as they have eaten the best bits, this can be an excellent way to get them to eat ALL of the hay.
Love our hay nets, even if I do say so myself... LOL 😂
With a good few days of rain coming, I was able to fill everything up and now I only have to feed hard feeds each day and not worry about putting hay out in the rain.
So thankful for my shelter ❤️
Cherry 🍒 eating from a 4cm large knotless GutzBusta Hay Net ❤️
Thank goodness for the 2cm hole sized hay nets. 😅 We made some some really palatable hay this year, and for the first time ever, I needed to use the 2cm nets with our ponies. 🐎🐎
Hay nets and Hay Savers... they sure make continual slow feeding and 24/7 access to fibre easy!
Happy and healthy ponies 😍🐎🐎
Our 2cm (3/4") hey nets are great for those REALLY gutzy 🐎 or if you have really palatable hay like we do this year ❤️
Until this season, I haven't had to go to the 2cm (3/4") hole size nets. However, our current Hay, although low in sugar, is really palatable 💞
Don't waste your hay, order a GutzBusta today!
💕A quick shoot of our very popular Medium sized hay nets.
This is a 3cm knotted net.
Our Mediums are very popular due to their wonderful wide mouths which make them super easy to fill. 🥰 They also hold half a small bale of hay which is a great quantity to hold in so many situations 💖
Tonight is the first time I've ever had to use a 2cm (3/4") round bale hay net on a bale of hay.
This hay season, we made some lovely soft, low sugar hay (<7%) that is very palatable. In 13 years of using the nets, I've never needed to go to such a small hole size... until now!
If it wasn't so yummy, I would expect this bale to last around a month with these 2 ponies, however I don't hold that much hope for this hay... LOL 😆 🤣
Fingers crossed 🤞 Thank goodness for the hay net or they would obliterate the bale in no time 🤪
