Equiblox Veteran – 12kg Soft Timothy Hay Blocks for Older Horses

Equiblox Veteran – 12kg

Finely chopped soft timothy hay, compressed into 1kg blocks, twelve to the bag. The chop length is the whole reason the product exists: diastema, the gaps that open between an old horse's molars, trap long-stem forage and cause painful periodontal disease, and a short, soft chop is far less likely to pack into them.

It also asks very little of teeth that are worn down or missing. Fed dry it behaves like a normal forage block and lets a horse forage naturally; soaked in around five litres of water a block breaks into a wet chop that a horse with almost no grinding surface left can still manage. Nothing is added — no molasses, no coating.

Performance & Benefits

• Finely chopped soft timothy hay, easy to digest and needing minimal chewing.
• Short chop reduces the risk of forage packing into gappy teeth.
• Naturally low in sugar, with no added molasses or additives.
• Compressed 1kg blocks store at home and travel to shows or livery easily.
• Feed dry from the bag, or soak to make a soft, hydrating wet chop.
• Alfalfa-free, for a veteran that does not tolerate alfalfa.

Suitable For

• Veteran horses and ponies needing an easy-to-digest forage.
• Horses with diastema or other dental problems that struggle with long-stem hay.
• Senior horses needing a gentle, low-sugar forage as part of a balanced diet.
• Horses that need to avoid alfalfa.
• Low in calories by design. A veteran that is losing weight also needs a conditioning feed alongside it.

Feeding

• Feed 1–2kg dry weight per 100kg bodyweight per day.
• Feed straight from the bag in the stable or outdoors.
• To make a wet chop, soak a block in a bucket with around 5 litres of water.
• Feeding a block whole rather than pre-soaked replicates natural foraging, where the teeth allow it.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: 100% soft timothy hay, finely chopped. No added molasses or other additives.
• Pack: 12 x 1kg blocks.
• Equiblox publish no crude protein, fibre or energy analysis for this block, so none is stated here.