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19/12/2024

Epol Equine have certainly had a busy year. 2024 was a year full of amazing shows, meeting wonderful new clients and horses stable yards in yards.
We sadly lost after 3 jam packed years of service to our brand. Leigh is following her love of teaching.
And we welcomed to our family. The knowledgeable lady with the biggest smile.
Thank you to all our amazing clients, we hope we can continue to add value to you and your horses in 2025.

18/12/2024

PRICE INCREASE ALERT! 💲🐴
Due to the reality of rising raw material prices, we are having to pass through price increases on our horse feed. The lack of rain throughout South Africa has impacted the availability and price of most raw materials. Energy sources in the diets and roughage have been impacted the most.
We passed an increase on the 4 December and will have another effective 30 December.

We know this is not what you want to hear but we want to reassure you as our valuable client, that we will ALWAYS procure only the best raw materials and we will NOT compromise on the quality of our diets.
Our formulations and ingredients stay the same to provide your horse ONLY the best nutrition at all times.
This results in us having to pass on the increases to keep the same quality you are used to in your rations.

17/12/2024

Hope you all had a fabulous long weekend?🐴❤️
Because we missed Motivational Monday we have some inspiration for Tuesday.

Travel safely if you are traveling this week for holidays.

11/12/2024

🎅🐴🎄🎅🐴🎄
Yikes!! It is 14 days to Christmas.
Don't forget to make sure your horse's diet has been adjusted if you are going away or too busy to ride.
Hope you have done all your Christmas shopping and have managed to get your beloved horse a small token of appreciation for their hard work during the year.🥕🍏🥕🍏

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10/12/2024

HOW DO I KNOW WHICH RATION IN THE LEISURE RANGE TO CHOOSE??
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On a scale of digestible energy (DE) our rations in the Leisure range are shown lowest to highest:
➡ Nice n Easy cubes 11MJ/KG- lower protein and starch. Lowest in our range for heating.
➡ Cool Rider cubes 11 MJ/KG- higher protein and slightly more starch but still a great one for hotter horses.
➡ Super Rider meal 11.3 MJ/KG- similar to Rider pellets for those preferring a meal form. Great to put on weight for medium to harder working horses.
➡ Rider pellets 11.5 MJ/KG - great all rounder ration for horses in medium to high workloads. Super for putting on weight when you want to try pick up condition.
➡️ Train n Leisure cubes 12.3 MJ/KG - For medium to harder working horses with a higher protein of 13% and higher roughage. Lower starch than Rider pellets but higher DE. Delivers a very different effect on horses as the Rider pellets.

If you want to learn more about which ration to choose for your horse, please contact our specialist equine advisors.
Dorianne Over - 083 998 6824
Debbie Dick - 076 755 5164

09/12/2024

Another week has come up on us and we are that much closer to Christmas.
This time of the year can be stressful and emotions might run high. Remember what this time of year symbolizes. Time with loved ones and reflection on the year that has been.
On the roads and in the shops, remember to treat each other with kindness and consideration.
🐴❤🐴❤🐴❤

06/12/2024

Meet Freyja.❤🐴
Given a second chance at life!
24 year old rescued Broodmare. Thank you to Coastal Horse Care Unit for your amazing work for rescuing her and to Sheri Wilson for adopting her and giving her a second chance.
One month on our fabulous Stud pellets and High Performance Balancer you can see the remarkable transformation in weight gain and coat health.
Cannot wait to see how she progresses further.

05/12/2024

Can you believe it, 20 days to Christmas?!😲
The year has certainly been a fast one.

So how do I feed my horse as my social commitments increase and my holiday plans start?

Your horse will always need 3% of its body mass in dry matter to maintain body condition. The proportion of concentrates to roughage will vary according to workload. While your horse is working hard it can consume up to 50% of that 3% in concentrates to sustain its work load and still maintain muscle mass.

But as you ride less your horse will need less energy, but still the 3% of the horse's body mass to keep body condition. So you will need to decrease concentrates and increase roughage. This ensures they receive their necessary daily calories but it will be delivered in a different way. This will also ensure that your horse stays in the pristine condition you had it in BEFORE you slowed down or stopped riding.

This can be given with our amazing hay/forage extender cubes. They are packed with A grade roughage.

So, for example, if you were feeding 4kg concentrates plus grazing and hay. You can drop to 2kg concentrates and add 2kg roughage cube to your horse. This will ensure your horse does not drop off over this period when we are often a little distracted from our horse's work and feeding programme.

Give us a call so we can assist you with your horse's diet over this period so in January when you start up again for another busy year of competition, your horse is in the condition you want it. Nothing worse than being all motivated to go and your horse has fallen off in condition and you now have to build body condition AND fitness which is very hard.

Debbie Dick - 076 755 5164
Dorianne Over - 083 998 6824

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03/12/2024

ROUGHAGE 🐴ROUGHAGE 🐴ROUGHAGE!

Do not ever under estimate the power of quality roughage in your horse's diet.

Roughage is the easiest way to put on weight without blowing the mind.

You can use our 3 roughage cubes for:
➡As a forage extender when hay quality is dubious.
➡ Post colic surgery, the cube is pure A grade roughage and chaffed, no pokey edges when the gut needs to heal.
➡ Box confinement to safely maintain body condition and help eliminate colic.
➡ Horses that are prone to ulcers can eat before working to eliminate acid splash in the stomach.
➡ With a balancer can be fed alone to hot horses. This way of feeding keeps horses sensitive to grain, sensible.
➡ With a balancer can be fed to horses that are prone to being overweight. Eliminating high calorie grain based feeds from their diet can assist with obesity.

Remember to always feed lots of small meals throughout the day mimicking the horse's natural feeding patterns.

You will never look back once you have incorporated these forage extenders into your horse's diet.

Contact us for more info.

Debbie Dick - 076 755 5164
Dorianne Over - 083 998 6824

02/12/2024

Good morning 🐴❤

Keep believing and working towards the life YOU choose.

29/11/2024

Meet Debbie, our national equine sales manager and specialist equine advisor.
Debbie is responsible for all horse sales nationally and internationally.
Debbie has been riding horses since she could walk and has a deep passion for horses, their welfare, health and performance.
Born and bred in KZN there is not a road or area she does not know and now most of the country after 15 years of traveling the length and breadth of South Africa and abroad.
Debbie started working as a racehorse assistant trainer riding work and competing in amateur races. She gained vast practical knowledge on feeding and conditioning performance horses.
She went on to work for a specialist equine veterinary practise, gaining further valuable knowledge of the horse.
Moving into nutrition where she has worked in this space for the last 15 years.
Having played polocrosse all of her adult life she has personally honed her skill and specialized in feeding and conditioning her equine athletes.
Debbie is passionate about her customers and passing on her knowledge to ensure each horse she meets finds the best nutritional match for optimal performance and condition.
Covering KZN, WC, EC, Swaziland and Namibia (and other export countries.)
Give her a call for a free yard visit so she can assist you tailor make your horse's diet.

27/11/2024

We all know that loving and riding horses is a passion that runs strongly in our veins. Something so hard to ever contemplate giving up due to the ever increasing cost of living.
Most of us have a budget that we have to live to and this means we have to make decisions on what and how much to feed our horses with what means we have.

Remember it costs more to keep a horse in underweight condition.
How can we say this?🧐
Often times we feed JUST enough for the horse to survive in an underweight condition and we cannot figure out why?
Remember that your horse's energy requirements change all the time due to:
➡️ weather and change of season
➡️ workload
➡️ loss of nutritional value in the grazing in winter
➡️ pregnancy and lactation
➡️ seasonal stallion work

We need to ADJUST their feed every time their current energy requirement situation changes.

Sometimes if your horse is underweight you have to push intake which is costly for a while, to then be able to reduce comfortably and they will maintain at a much reduced daily cost.

Another common mistake is forfeiting quality for a cheaper feed or brand. REMEMBER although the bag and R/KG might be higher in a quality feed, your total intake will be lower with a higher quality feed. "Less is more" 💲
Run a spreadsheet on each horse with total daily intakes and see for yourself that the horses eating better quality feed and hay will do better with less.🐴

Feeding a better quality feed might cost more but you do not need to feed supplements. This has all been taken care of by the experts. Carefully balanced vitamins and minerals along with the correct amino acid profile, leaving you peace of mind that your horse has it all!

Your horse deserves the best and we at Epol can help you with this delicate calculation of cost per horse in your yard. Ensuring that you give your horse the best with the budget you have.❤💲

We are here to help you. Give us a call for a visit and discussion around this matter. We can find the best feeding programme to fit your budget.

Debbie Dick - 076 755 5164
Dorianne Over - 083 998 6824

26/11/2024

Just look for the blue bag that says 'Leisure'. 🧐

Remember to see what is in YOUR bag by the bag tag stitched on the bag. All the relevant date of manufacture and batch numbers are on your bag tag.

Inside the Leisure bag we have the following rations:
➡️ Rider pellets
➡️ Super Rider meal
➡️ Cool Rider cubes
➡️ Nice n Easy cubes
➡️ Train n Leisure cubes

This range will cover your needs from a leisure rider riding once or twice a week to a highly competitive equine athlete in hard work.

With specifically formulated protein, energy, fibre, starch and fat to suite each individual requirement you or your horse need.

All our rations are fully fortified with a comprehensive vitamin and mineral pack specifically designed to ensure your horse's health is covered at a cellular level. Aimed at optimal recovery and daily health.

Give us a call to find out which ration will suite you and your horse's needs.📲
Dorianne Over - 083 998 6824
Debbie Dick - 076 755 5164

25/11/2024

There is a saying, 'The harder you work, the luckier you get.' 😉
Hard work and dedication always pay off.
You will get the results and rewards you aim for with your consistent work and focus.
Stay focused at the beginning of another week as we gallop towards Christmas!🫣
Happy Monday.
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22/11/2024

Meet Dorianne Over, our specialist equine technical advisor!
Dori has lived in Gauteng her whole life so there is not a corner of the province and northern region she does not know.
Dori has been riding since the age of 6 and has a lifelong knowledge and passion for the beloved horse.
Dori has worked in livery and stud yards from Australia to America and back home in South Africa.🇿🇦
Also working for a large feed supplier for over 9 years, where she gained valuable knowledge on sales and logistics.
Dori's wealth of knowledge has ensured that the equine Epol team stay ahead of the pack with customer obsession adding value to each horse and yard.
Dori has a sunny disposition and wears her personality smile wherever she goes.
Dori looks after Gauteng, Free State, NW and Limpopo.
For a free yard visit to assist tailor make your equine diets please give her call.

20/11/2024

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Feeding your performance horse so that they have enough energy to perform well for you, and juggling too much energy that makes them difficult at the beginning of an event is like walking a tight rope. A fine balancing act!

Normally in the weeks preceding an event we start increasing work for optimal fitness levels and we might back off a few days before to 'freshen' our horse up so they have 'fresh legs' for the event. So you normally increase concentrate intake and then reduce, to increase again during the competition event.

Will my horse be over the top fresh?
Will my horse tie up if I back off too much into the event and feed the same?
If I don't feed enough energy will my horse become too flat during the duration of the competition?

The answer is simple... Provide energy when your horse needs it and is using it.

If you have a 'cold' breed that is needing more spark and energy, introduce the higher energy diet into their normal feed at least the Tuesday before the event in a 20% inclusion and increase to at least a 50% inclusion on the 1st day of the event. During the duration of the event you can be on as much as 100% of their concentrate feed in a higher energy diet to give them the energy their require to perform and recover. If we start too soon the risk is you have way too much energy on the 1st day and your first class starts in 'kart wheel' mode!🫣😂

If you want to 'freshen' a hotter breed horse up before and event feed normally and even reduce higher energy diets the day/s you decide not to work so they do not tie up when you start the event. These breeds carry their own energy and if you back off and carry on feeding the same quantity you will end up with a case of azoturia.

Remember the golden rule, glycogen replenishment is more important than glycogen loading. Horses store energy in their muscles and you do not want to store too much.

Feed as soon as you can after hard work session for optimal muscle recovery and glycogen replenishment. Rather feed a high energy ration in smaller quantities after each class during a show so your athlete recovers and is able to perform in the next class with optimal energy.

19/11/2024

Feeding your competition horse depends on a number of things.
➡ Do you or your horse preferred a textured feed?
➡ Does your horse tend to be on the hot side?
➡ Does your horse need quick release energy to liven him up?
➡ Do you need a higher fat diet for multi day or endurance type sports?
➡ Do you only need more energy into and during shows?

At Epol we have it all for you.

With a wealth of knowledge, contact our specialist equine technical advisors and set up a one on one appointment to discuss what you are looking for in your equine athlete.📲

Dori Over - Gauteng, Free State, Limpopo and NW - 083 998 6824
Debbie Dick - KZN, EC, WC, Namibia and Swaziland - 076 755 5164
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18/11/2024

You know that saying.....
'Head up and heels down' ??
Basically the same in life.
Don't dwell on decisions or mistakes made in the past as it is a futile waste of energy.
Keep looking forward and only periodically look back from the places and person you were and congratulate yourself on what you have achieved in your lifetime. The hard work and effort that has got you to this point today.❤
Celebrate yourself.

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Epol Equine have certainly had a busy year. 2024 was a year full of amazing shows, meeting wonderful new clients and horses stable yards in yards. We sadly lost @leezieadams after 3 jam packed years of service to our brand. Leigh is following her love of teaching. And we welcomed @dorianneover to our family. The knowledgeable lady with the biggest smile. Thank you to all our amazing clients, we hope we can continue to add value to you and your horses in 2025. #epolequine #theirperformanceyoursuccess

PRICE INCREASE ALERT! 💲🐴 Due to the reality of rising raw material prices, we are having to pass through price increases on our horse feed. The lack of rain throughout South Africa has impacted the availability and price of most raw materials. Energy sources in the diets and roughage have been impacted the most. We passed an increase on the 4 December and will have another effective 30 December. We know this is not what you want to hear but we want to reassure you as our valuable client, that we will ALWAYS procure only the best raw materials and we will NOT compromise on the quality of our diets. Our formulations and ingredients stay the same to provide your horse ONLY the best nutrition at all times. This results in us having to pass on the increases to keep the same quality you are used to in your rations. #prayforrain #epolequine #consistentquality

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