TopSpec FibrePlus Cubes – 20kg Complementary High Fibre Horse Feed

TopSpec FibrePlus Cubes – 20kg

TopSpec class FibrePlus Cubes as a blend rather than a complete feed, and the distinction is not marketing. They carry no added vitamins or trace elements at all, because they are meant to be fed with a TopSpec balancer or the All-in-One supplement, which supply those. What they do add over plain straights is the major minerals — calcium at 1.2%, magnesium at 0.3% and salt.

Read as a hay replacer they are straightforward: TopSpec state that 1kg of FibrePlus Cubes replaces roughly 2kg of meadow hay, and the cube soaks down in about twenty minutes. The declared analysis is 20% fibre, 12% protein and 9.0 MJ/kg. Starch is declared at 9.0%, which is worth knowing before assuming a cereal-grain-free cube is automatically very low in starch.

Performance & Benefits

• 20% declared fibre at 9.0 MJ/kg — a genuinely low-calorie way to add bulk to a bucket.
• The declared composition contains no straw, which is what most low-calorie fibre cubes are built on.
• Soaks in cold or warm water in about twenty minutes, to whatever consistency the horse needs.
• 1kg of cubes replaces around 2kg of meadow hay, so it works as a partial or full forage replacement.
• Supplemented with calcium, magnesium and salt, which plain straights are not.
• Starch declared at 9.0%: low for a conditioning-type cube, but not the sub-5% figure some low-starch claims imply.

Suitable For

• Good doers needing bulk in the bucket without the calories.
• Elderly horses that can no longer chew long forage — soaked cubes with TopSpec Senior Feed Balancer make a workable complete diet.
• Horses on box rest or restricted grazing that need chew time.
• Filling snack balls and slow feeders.
• Not a standalone feed: fed on its own it leaves a horse short of every vitamin and trace element, so it must go with a TopSpec balancer or the All-in-One supplement.

Feeding

• Feed dry, or soaked in cold or warm water for about twenty minutes to the consistency you want.
• Soaking suits elderly horses, horses with poor teeth and horses that bolt their feed.
• As a forage replacer, allow roughly 1kg of cubes for every 2kg of meadow hay replaced.
• Always feed alongside a TopSpec balancer or the All-in-One supplement — these cubes contain no added vitamins or trace elements.
• TopSpec publish no maximum daily quantity for FibrePlus Cubes, so none is stated here. Feed to condition and appetite.
• Ensure clean, fresh water is always available.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: high fibre oat by-product, wheatfeed, grass, dried beet pulp, linseed expeller, soya bean meal (GM), molasses, calcium carbonate, soya hulls (GM), sodium chloride, dicalcium phosphate, magnesium oxide.
• Typical analysis: protein 12.0%, oil 3.5%, fibre 20.0%, starch 9.0%.
• Digestible energy 9.0 MJ/kg. Calcium 1.2%, magnesium 0.3%.
• No added vitamins or trace elements — TopSpec declare none, because the product is designed to be fed with a balancer.
• TopSpec publish no sugar percentage, so none is stated here.
• 20kg bag.