Baileys Fibre Plus Nuggets – 20kg

Baileys Fibre Plus Nuggets – 20kg

Fibre Plus Nuggets are chunky high-fibre cubes that Baileys sell as a forage alternative — something to put in front of a horse when hay is short, when the teeth no longer cope with long fibre, or when a stabled horse needs occupying. Fed dry they take real chewing; dropped into water they soften within minutes into something an old horse can manage.

They carry no added vitamins or minerals, which makes them a fibre source rather than a complete feed: a balancer or compound feed goes alongside to finish the diet off. Protein is 8.5%, about what grass hay provides, and digestible energy is 8.5 MJ/kg, so replacing forage with nuggets changes the format without changing the nutrition much.

Performance & Benefits

• 22.5% fibre at 8.5 MJ/kg digestible energy — forage-level nutrition rather than a hard feed.
• Softens in water within minutes, which makes them a practical hay replacer for a horse with poor teeth.
• Chunky enough to slow a horse down, fed on the floor, in a bucket or in a boredom ball.
• Flavoured with essential oil extracts, which helps with fussy feeders and horses off their food.
• Protein at 8.5%, comparable with grass hay, so the protein picture stays the same when you swap.
• No added vitamins or minerals, so they will not double up on anything a balancer already supplies.

Suitable For

• Horses and ponies needing a partial forage replacer when hay or haylage runs short.
• Older or dentally challenged horses that can no longer chew long fibre.
• Stabled horses and those on box rest that need something to occupy them.
• Fussy feeders, and horses coming back into work after illness.
• Not a low sugar and starch feed: at 10% starch and 8% sugar they are the wrong choice for a laminitic or EMS pony, where Baileys Light Chaff at 2.5% starch suits far better.

Feeding

• Baileys recommend feeding them alongside additional forage and a balancer or compound feed.
• One level Stubbs round bowl scoop holds approximately 1.8kg.
• Used as a hay replacer, split the daily amount into small, frequent meals rather than one large one.
• Soak in water for any horse with dental problems, or one that bolts its feed.
• Introduce gradually over a week or so, as with any change of forage.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: oatfeed (a by-product of the oat milling industry), alfalfa meal, micronised unmolassed sugarbeet, molasses, distillers' grains, extracted linseed meal.
• Typical analysis: protein 8.5%, oil 2.75%, fibre 22.5%, ash 6%.
• Starch 10% and sugar 8%. Digestible energy 8.5 MJ/kg.
• 20kg sack. No vitamins or minerals are added.

Care & Caution

• Starch at 10% and sugar at 8% mean these are not a low sugar and starch feed, low in energy though they are. Take veterinary advice before feeding them to a laminitic, EMS or PPID horse.
• Fed dry the cubes are hard and need good teeth. Soak them for any horse with dental problems or one that eats too quickly.
• No vitamins or minerals are added. Fed as the bulk of the ration with nothing else, the diet will be short of both.