Every horse owner knows the worry. The trailer is loaded for a show, the temperature has dropped below freezing, or the old gelding in the back stall just isn't himself, and the water bucket keeps coming up full. A horse that stops drinking is a horse headed for trouble, and you can lead him to water all day without making him drink. Hydration Hay was built for exactly that moment: it puts the water inside the feed, so the horse takes it in without ever deciding to.
Hydration Hay Original is a premium blend of quality grass and alfalfa hay compressed into a convenient, lightweight block. You drop one block into a bucket of water and it quickly absorbs the water to become palatable, moist hay that horses dive into. Each block soaks up roughly five times its own weight in water, which means a feed your horse already wants to eat becomes the delivery system for the water he needs. It is recommended for all horses, at all life stages.
The principle is simple and it is why Forage Solutions can say Hydration Hay is proven to deliver more water than other approaches: horses are far more reliable about eating than about drinking. When a block expands into a soft, fragrant mash, the horse eats the hay and swallows the soak water along with it. Offer it cold on a sweltering show day, or make it with hot water on a bitter winter night when a steaming treat is exactly what tempts a horse to the bucket. Either way, the water goes down with the feed instead of sitting untouched.
The hardest cases are where Hydration Hay earns its keep. Show and travel horses face strange water at every facility and often refuse it; a block fed the morning of a haul means the horse leaves the barn already topped off. Seniors who have slowed down, chew poorly, or have grown picky take to the soft mash when they turn up their noses at dry hay. Hard-to-manage drinkers, sick horses, and any animal whose vet is watching for colic benefit from the steady water intake. And in winter, when horses naturally cut back on cold water, a warm bucket of Hydration Hay keeps them drinking through the season.
Feeding is quick and forgiving. Place one two-pound Hydration Hay Original block in a large bucket and add at least five quarts of water, hot or cold. Let it absorb for about ten minutes. To soak it more evenly, flip the block halfway through, and a little mixing by hand will speed the absorption along. What you are left with is moist, ready-to-eat hay rather than a dry flake that sits in the corner. There is no dust to drift into eyes and noses on the trailer, and no loose hay flying around a moving rig, which is part of why owners reach for it on the road.
The block is a compressed blend of premium grass and alfalfa hay and nothing exotic: sun-cured chopped grass hay (timothy and orchardgrass), sun-cured chopped alfalfa, and vegetable oil. The guaranteed analysis runs a minimum 10% crude protein, a minimum 1.5% crude fat, a maximum 37% crude fiber, and a maximum 9% ash. The bales are manufactured by Heidel Hollow Farms under stringent harvesting and drying processes, the same family-farm standards Forage Solutions was founded on to give the horse and livestock community high-quality forage for even the toughest cases.
Hydration Hay Original is a premium blend of quality grass and alfalfa hay compressed into a convenient, lightweight block. Dropped into a bucket of water, it quickly absorbs the water to become palatable, moist hay. It is recommended for all horses at all life stages.
Horses are more reliable about eating than drinking. Because the block absorbs about five times its weight in water, the horse swallows the soak water along with the hay it already wants. The water goes in with the feed instead of sitting untouched in the bucket.
Show and travel horses facing strange water, seniors that chew poorly or have grown picky, sick or colic-prone horses, poor drinkers, and any horse in cold weather that naturally cuts back on water all benefit from the steady, reliable water intake Hydration Hay provides.
Place one two-pound block in a large bucket and add at least five quarts of water, hot or cold. Let it absorb for about ten minutes. Flip the block halfway through for more even soaking, and mix it by hand to speed absorption. It becomes moist, ready-to-eat hay.
Yes. Many owners make Hydration Hay with hot water on cold nights so horses get a warm treat they look forward to. In winter, when horses drink less cold water, a warm bucket of soaked hay keeps them taking in the water they need through the season.
The ingredients are sun-cured chopped grass hay (timothy and orchardgrass), sun-cured chopped alfalfa, and vegetable oil. The guaranteed analysis is a minimum 10% crude protein, minimum 1.5% crude fat, maximum 37% crude fiber, and maximum 9% ash.
Very. The blocks are lightweight and easy to transport, so owners keep them in the trailer. The soaked hay produces no dust and no loose flying pieces to get into a horse's eyes and nose during travel, which makes it a clean option for hauling.
Hydration Hay is a product of Forage Solutions, LLC, which was created to provide the horse and livestock community with high-quality forage. The blocks are manufactured by Heidel Hollow Farms under stringent harvesting and drying processes.
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