The words roughage and forage are used interchangeably to describe the grasses and plants that horses graze in fresh or preserved forms. This includes fresh pasture, hay, chaff, chaff cubes, haylage, baleage an… See more

Roughage usually contains at least 18% fibre, most of which is indigestible to the horse without the aid of the gut microbiome. The most common forms of roughage fed to horses in Australia are pasture, hay or chaff. Don’… See more

As a good rule of thumb, horses need to consume between 1.5% and 2.5% of their body weight in total feed per day (that’s the feed’s dry matter content, not counting the moisture present). The minimum amount of roughage f… See more

Hay contains most of the minerals, protein and calories that were present in the pasture from which it was made. But the process of drying grass to make hay means that it loses much of the original vitamin and health… See more