Why Ease & Excel is ideal for Stressy or Excitable Types

​Horses may be naturally excitable, while some also find it difficult to cope with the stresses of a busy competition lifestyle.  Reducing the overall starch intake for horses like this will keep levels of dietary “quick release” energy to a minimum which can help avoid exacerbating excitability.

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How a low starch diet can help

• Ease & Excel provides high levels of slow release and minimal levels of quicker release energy so is ideal for those horses who can be “fizzy” or “sharp” on traditional competition feeds containing moderate levels of cereals, like oats.
• Stressy horses are more likely to experience digestive upsets and discomfort, including gastric ulcers, so Ease & Excel is ideal fed as part of an overall management and feeding regime to reduce stress and discomfort.
• Stressy horses often have limited appetites so Ease & Excel is formulated to be fed in reduced quantities compared to a traditional competition feed.  This means that meal sizes can be kept manageable, for optimum digestive efficiency, and the horse is unlikely to be “overfaced”.  Ensuring a horse receives all the nutrients he needs is important to support well-being and performance which in turn should help to maintain a healthy appetite.

"My horse is stress and goes off feed easily, especially when away at competitions. Now I feed Ease & Excel, I can keep him eating and drinking so he’s able to perform as I want and recover well." Carrie Byrom - Eventer

For more advice on feeding excitable horses, visit Feeding Answers on our main web site.