Marriage's Wheat Middlings (Wheatfeed) – Horse & Livestock Feed 25kg

Marriage's Wheat Middlings – 25kg

Wheat middlings, or wheatfeed, is the fraction left between the flour and the bran when wheat is milled. Marriage's produce theirs as a co-product of their own flour mill and sell it as a simple traditional straight feed for maintaining condition in horses.

It is a straight, not a compound. Nothing is added, nothing is fortified and there is no vitamin or mineral premix, which is both the appeal and the limitation — it is plain bulk feed that has to be balanced by whatever else is in the bucket.

Performance & Benefits

• A single-ingredient straight from Marriage's own flour milling.
• Marriage's describe it as a simple traditional straight feed to maintain condition in horses.
• 25kg sack, an economical way to buy in bulk.
• Mixes readily with chaff, beet pulp or a compound feed.
• Also used on smallholdings in cattle, pig and poultry rations.

Suitable For

• Horses kept in condition on a traditional straight-fed ration.
• Smallholders mixing their own rations.
• Feeding alongside a balancer that covers the vitamins and minerals.
• Anyone wanting a plain, unfortified bulk feed.
• Not a complete or balanced feed — a horse fed on straights needs a balancer or broad-spectrum supplement alongside.

Feeding

• Feed as part of a mixed ration, not on its own.
• Damp it before feeding, particularly to a fast eater.
• Introduce gradually over a week or more.
• Weigh what you feed rather than measuring by the scoop; density varies.
• Fresh, clean water at all times.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: 100% wheat middlings (wheatfeed), a co-product of Marriage's flour mill.
• Marriage's publish no typical analysis for this product — no protein, fibre, oil or ash figure — so none is stated here. Their listing invites customers to contact them for further nutritional analysis.
• Earlier copy on this page gave crude protein 15%, crude fibre 9%, oil 4% and ash 5%. None of those is a Marriage's figure and all have been removed.
• Bag size 25kg, which matches Marriage's own listing.

Care & Caution

• Wheatfeed is high in phosphorus relative to calcium. A ration built on it needs the calcium balancing.
• Feed it damp and in modest amounts per meal. A starchy straight eaten dry and fast is a choke and colic risk.
• Not suitable as the sole feed for any animal. Balance it, or feed it alongside a compound.