Our Mission ….
Is to provide you and your horse with the best possible natural diet and advice so that your horse receives optimum nutrition to build a strong foundation of health, strength and immunity will enables him to reach his full potential in every field and discipline throughout his life – from foal to veteran.
These days, with the vast ranges of feeds and supplements on the market, it is hard to imagine and understand how just one complete feed can meet the nutritional demands of all horses, regardless of their life stage, work load/type, breed, temperament or environment. Underneath the array of glossy adverts and marketing, it is important to remember how the horse evolved as a free roaming herbivore, continually browsing and selecting foliage and herbs throughout the day. As a species, the horse has a limited digestive capacity for non fibrous feed ingredients and his digestive system has not evolved to cope with cereal based meals. This is evident by the increasing array of ’man made’ diseases that are commonplace such; as Colic, Laminitis, Gastric Ulceration Syndrome, Metabolic Syndrome/Diabetes, Poor Performance Syndrome etc. Most, if not all of these problems can be prevented if we were able to mimic our horse’s natural life style and provide him with the type of feed that he was designed to eat.
HOW
As professional Equine Physiologists we understand that the digestive system of the horse is very limited in its compatibility and digestibility of feed ingredients. Unlike ourselves, who can enjoy fish & chips one night, curry the next, the horse evolved on a limited diet of grasses, plants and herbs which are digested in the ‘hind gut’ (ceacum and large intestine), a large fermentation site, housing billions of fibre digesting microbes. With this in mind, physiologists at Primero Equine formulated TOTAL Holistic Horse Feed ~ a high (digestible) fibre, low starch/sugar, nutrient dense, bespoke feed, which is highly digestible and suited to the horse’s sensitive and unique digestive system.
TOTAL Holistic Horse Feed is now celebrating 10 years of simple, successful equine nutrition, proving over and over again that our feed benefits all horses from post operative, through to elite competition horses in all disciplines, and all those in between of course. We even boast donkeys, ponies and ancient Przewalski horses as part of the TOTAL family.
PRIMERO EQUINE….KEEPING THE HORSE AT HEART
