What people feed, and what they say about it

“Running a 40-stall boarding barn means I am buying hay the way other people buy fuel. Having the protein and moisture published up front means I can set my feed charges honestly and not get caught out mid-winter.”

“We go through a lot of forage and the consistency lot to lot is what keeps me here. Twelve deliveries this year and the analysis has barely moved half a point.”

“First horse, and I had no idea what I was buying. I emailed asking a fairly stupid question about cuts and got a proper two-paragraph answer back the same day. Nobody tried to upsell me.”

“My event horses were dropping weight through the autumn season no matter what hard feed I threw at them. Switched the forage base to the alfalfa and the condition came back in about five weeks without me adding a single scoop of grain.”

“Miniature horses get fat looking at a field. The low-sugar teff in small squares means I can weigh out exactly what they get and nothing more.”

“I have bought timothy from four suppliers in six years and this is the first time the second cut has actually looked like second cut. Fine stem, leaf still on it, and green right through the middle of the bale rather than just on the outside.”

“Reining horses are fussy and mine will leave anything stemmy. The brome goes down to the floor of the stall every night. That is the whole review.”

“My mare foundered in 2023 and finding hay I trusted became the whole problem. The teff comes with an actual NSC number on the lot, not a shrug. My vet asked where I was getting it.”

“We take in horses that arrive at a body score of two and have to be brought back slowly. Clean, low-sugar forage is the entire programme and the teff has let us do it without colic in two years.”

“Nobody else would give me paperwork on endophyte status. These people sent the lab result before I had even asked. With in-foal mares that is the only answer I will accept.”

“Donkeys need poor forage, which sounds easy until you try to buy it deliberately. The first-cut fescue is exactly the low-energy, high-fibre feed they are built for.”

“Ordered for our pony club camp with about nine days' notice and it arrived two days early, stacked on pallets and shrink-wrapped. Forty children, zero hay drama.”

“Endurance horses live on forage and electrolytes. I want fibre, not sugar, and I want to know what I am feeding. Both boxes ticked, every lot.”

“My gelding is 29 and has four teeth that still work. The orchard grass is soft enough that he can actually manage it, and he finishes his pile now instead of leaving half of it in quids on the floor.”

“Honest hay at an honest price. Not the cheapest on the page but the meadow mix has no mould, no dust and no surprises, and that is what I am actually paying for.”

“Our riders are children with disabilities and the ponies have to be calm and sound. Switching to a consistent grass hay took the week-to-week behaviour swings out of the herd almost immediately.”

“Took a star off because the first pallet turned up a day later than the window I was given. The hay itself was faultless and they called me before I called them, which counts for something.”

“Four Welsh cobs in harness work. The orchard grass keeps them fit without the fizz I get off anything richer.”