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2010-04-26 GOLDENGRASS to World Equestrian Games 2010 GOLDENGRASS is proud to support WEG Kentucky 2010 in partnership with KER company. Worldwide participants will have the ability to use our products during the games. 2009.04.06 GOLDENBED - the new innovative, straw and grass based eco-bedding by GOLDENGRASS coming soon. This product will finally solve the problem of getting rid of bedding waste that has become an expensive issue after the recent EU environmental regulations. Differently from the wood - shavings, straw or grass based bedding is OK to send back to farming, arable land. To get rid of wood based waste is a problem as it is polluting the soil by dropping pH levels. The new granulated fiber bedding will be free from dust, highly absorbent, less bulky to store and most importantly - will make a very high quality bedding to it's easy - break down granule technology. Please enquire This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it should you need the info urgently. 2009.03.27  The World famous Norwegian Geir Guliksen qualifies for FEI WORLD CUP FINAL in Las Veigas 2009. Congratulations Mr. Geir!  2009.03.10 Please visit our stand in Equitana 2009:
Fresh, the most hygienic ever, 2008 harvest is being supplied to the market from today. Goldengrass has had a very successful harvesting season weather-wise with top quality product in store. 2008.09.01 A brand new website www.goldengrass.eu starts functioning.Â
GOLDENGRASS congratulates the outstanding performance of 2008.08.30 New harvest "easy feed" technology packed Goldengrass June 11, 2008 -- Partner for Sweden
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November 12, 2007 -- How to feed your horse ? Why, when and how to feed supplements and balancers by Nicola Tyler B.Sc. (Hons) TopSpec Equine Limited The need to supplement the diets of most horses and ponies living in the UK with minerals and micronutrients for at least part of the year is now established beyond doubt. Whether that supplementation is in the form of a single substance like salt or limestone, a specialised supplement, a broad-spectrum supplement, a balancer or a compound feed depends on a wide variety of circumstances. Supplementation is needed to balance horses diets and by so doing to keep them healthy and able to undertake the work requested of them. This article describes those situations where that need is best met by supplements or balancers. Horses in perfect condition, either at rest or in light to medium work, should not need their diets supplementing if they are turned out in ideal grazing conditions. In the UK these conditions will exist for less than half the year. Unfortunately fewer and fewer horses have the benefit of ideal pastures nowadays, the combination of modern agricultural methods and over grazed pastures alone often severely reducing the amount and variety of micronutrients that were available to horses as little as twenty five years ago. In addition there has been a huge increase in the use of the horse for leisure and the expectations of modern owners, in terms of travel and competition for example, and therefore the requirements of their horses, are much greater. Equally horses in perfect condition, either at rest or in light to medium work, that are fed forage and the full recommended amount of a good quality compound feed should not need their diets supplementing except in some of the circumstances referred to below. In my experience however, very few owners feed the full recommended amount of compound feed for a wide variety of reasons. These include wishing to take advantage of feedstuffs that are not only good for horses but also excellent value for money, like shredded beet pulp; owning a good-doer; or, particularly in the case of those of us who are female, the enjoyment of ‘creating a good meal’ for the horses in our care. I think that the most important reasons for the swing away from using high levels of compound feed are: -Haylage is rapidly replacing hay as the most common forage fed to horses and its generally superior nutritional quality means that less compound feed needs to be fed to meet the energy requirements of the horse. -The availability of good quality chopped forages, for example alfalfa, has revolutionized the way many horses are fed and again reduced the requirement for traditional compound feeds. -An increase in understanding amongst horse owners that large feeds of cereal-based compounds do not suit the horse’s digestive system, which is designed for trickle feeding of forage. When Circumstances when it would be advisable to supplement horses diets with micronutrients include: When only stored forage (hay or haylage) is fed, in order to balance it. Many horses are kept very successfully on just haylage plus either a balancer or a broad-spectrum supplement mixed with a little chopped forage. It is a very natural way of feeding which suits horses very well and reduces the risks of many problems, for example colic, azoturia and laminitis. When grazing conditions are less than ideal, in order to optimise micronutrient supply. When high demands are placed on a horse, for example when racing, eventing or competing in endurance events. A horse tuned for peak performance may well have a limited appetite and be stressed and therefore he may not eat, or properly utilise, sufficient nutrients unless his diet is expertly supplemented. Many problems can arise from insufficient micronutrient supply. Even minor deficiencies in micronutrient supply can result in reduced performance, and in a close finish, the difference between success and failure. When optimum condition is required for showing, in order to add the finishing touch by improving e.g. topline and coat quality. When there are specific problems, for example poor hoof quality or impaired muscle function. When there are specific needs, for example to improve muscle development, bone development or fertility. Broodmares and youngstock on good pasture would be a classic example. Or when horses are kept in areas where there is a known soil deficiency, for example many pastures in Somerset, Gloucestershire and the Welsh borders are deficient in copper and selenium. Another example of a specific need is that when horses are worked hard enough to sweat, their diet must be supplemented with salt or mixed electrolytes to replace what has been lost. When a horse is injured or unwell, it is very important to maintain micronutrient supply for tissue repair and maintenance at a time when intake of hard feed may be severely restricted. Vitamins A, C and E will also help to maintain a healthy immune system and so fight disease. When a significant amount of oil is added to the diet, it is vitally important to add extra anti-oxidants in order to remove the free radicals released when oil is metabolized. The most important anti-oxidants for this purpose are vitamin E and selenium. When a horse is stressed, anti-oxidants such as vitamins A, C and E, and also selenium and manganese will help it to combat the damaging effects of that stress. Many supplements and balancers contain probiotics as well and when a horse is stressed hormonal changes affect the gut lining, upsetting the microbial balance. Probiotics help to restore this balance. Sources of stress include travelling, competing, showing, moving to a strange environment, changes in feeding or management routine, less than ideal turn-out time, foaling, illness, convalescence etc. Probiotics are particularly beneficial during convalescence if a course of antibiotics have been given during illness. When hind gut efficiency is impaired, for example on low-fibre diets, it is important to supplement the diet with the B vitamins that are usually manufactured in it. Probiotics will help to restore hindgut efficiency. To use more specific terms, yeasts will help the beneficial (cellulolytic) bacteria to multiply whilst mannan oligosaccharides (sometimes called pre-biotics) will bond with undesirable (pathogenic) bacteria in the gut and escort them out in the faeces. How Supplements and balancers, like all feeds, should be introduced to the diet gradually, ideally over four days. The total amount should be divided between the daily feeds. Supplements should be mixed with the normal feed, if none is given then powdered supplements must be mixed with a little damp chop or a handful of soaked shredded beet-pulp or soaked pasture/hi-fibre nuts. A pelleted balancer can be more palatable than a powdered supplement and can be fed entirely on its own which is very convenient for owners. Whether you feed a supplement or a balancer is often a matter of personal choice, but bear in mind that balancers are feeds that provide very important major nutrients e.g. protein, which provides the building blocks for muscle and is important for bone formation. Where a diet is deficient in protein a balancer will probably be more suitable than a supplement. A prime example would be youngstock. Balancers will build more condition than a supplement containing the equivalent minerals, micronutrients and probiotics alone, but they can be fed to good-doers providing energy intake can be reduced (for example by substituting balancer for a larger amount of hard feed). In my opinion supplements are more suitable than balancers for horses that are already carrying enough weight and are not receiving any hard feed. I would also recommend an appropriate supplement rather than a balancer for laminitic horses and ponies, and for well furnished native ponies and other ‘very good-doers’ in light work. An appropriate supplement mixed with a little chopped forage is the ideal way to ensure micronutrient intake is not compromised for those horses and ponies that convert feed so efficiently that any concentrate feed would make them overweight. Conversely, horses that need to gain weight, or are working very hard, need their supplements or balancers as a ‘top-up’ to their existing feed. Where very high levels of compound feed are already being fed it would be advisable to consult a nutritionist before adding further micronutrients. I am concerned about the dangers of unbalancing or over supplementing with micronutrients, which commonly happens when owners buy two or three different products (these can include specialized supplements, broad spectrum supplements and balancers) and then feed them all together. With certain exceptions, for example salt (or electrolytes) I believe that specialized supplements, for example for hoof quality or muscle function are more efficient, and safer, when combined with a broad-spectrum base. These combination or fully comprehensive supplements are the ones I would strongly urge you to use because they virtually eliminate the risk of unbalancing or over supplementing your horse’s diet with micronutrients. October 10, 2007 -- Visit us!
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June 29, 2007 -- Optimising Results in Arabian Performance Horses with Haylage. Interview with Sarah Kelleway, a champion endurance horse trainer Sarah spent her early career in horseracing, but moved into endurance racing twelve years ago. Since then, she has since spent much time abroad training high-stamina Arabian horses in their native Middle East, particularly Dubai. She has represented Great Britain for the last four seasons on the same horse, Ibn Aswana, competing in the World Equestrian Games in Jerez, Spain. Despite her passion for disciplines, horseracing and endurance racing, present different challenges, which require Sarah to be flexible in her approach to training. As she explains: "A horse being prepared for an endurance race over 160km would be required to train for a gruelling 20km a day, with a training ride of 50km every fortnight. Whilst endurance horses need to maintain a focused and consistent speed over long distances, racehorses, by comparison, are trained at higher speeds for shorter time periods." Metabolic Stability Although these two individual sports have contrasting exercise methods, Sarah has always believed that ensuring the metabolic stability of horses is the key to delivering fitness and success in both endurance and horseracing. She stresses that feed needs to be used intelligently, in response to the horse's performance goals. "I always use haylage as the staple feed for both my racehorses and endurance horses, primarily because it guarantees a consistently excellent nutritional value, quality and weight. Haylage is great for a balanced diet as it is very high in protein, providing a streamlined, steady release of energy." When her endurance horses are competing, Sarah also offers them hay additionally, to maximise their consumption: "On race days, they must arrive with a full tank of fuel. I give them haylage prior to performance in order to supply a stream of slow-release energy and then offer a supplement of long-stemmed hay nearer to the ride, to ensure they get a high level of fat to convert into energy during the race". An aid to travel For Sarah, haylage is particularly invaluable when her horses are travelling internationally, for instance when she is moving horses to Spain or Dubai for training purposes. Not only does haylage limit the damaging effects of dust, it allows trainers to regulate the amount of forage that their horses consume. This nutritional stability is especially important in times of transit, which can be very destabilising for animals. When Sarah's horses travel to Dubai, it can take up to a year for them to acclimatise which is manifested by a visible change to hoof and coat growth. Haylage is also far preferable to the forage that is available in desert terrain. When horses are sent out to paddock in this type of habitat, many have to be routinely treated by vets, for ingesting large quantities of sand. When asked her top tip for keeping horses fit and successful, Sarah's answer is simple: "It is important to remember to take out what you put in. The more you feed a horse, the more you need to exercise them. Haylage is a better feed than hay in this respect; it has a higher and more consistent nutritional quality, which is concentrated over a smaller area, so trainers are able regulate and control a horse's consumption levels in a much more precise way." Sarah's Career to Date Sarah was born with horseracing in her blood; her father won the prestigious Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1969 and her mother was a champion point-to-point jockey. It was only natural that Sarah would follow in their footsteps - she rode her first winner at 16 and has since ridden over 500 winning horses in Europe. Sarah started training Arabians in 1986 with her first Arabian horse, Madrid, and went on to become a champion Arabian racehorse trainer and jockey ten times, breeding over twenty winners worldwide. In 1995, she turned her attention to endurance racing, travelling abroad to compete in many international competitions in the Middle East, Europe and South Africa. Key successes to date have included her participation in the World Endurance Championships in Dubai and finishing 12th in the Qatar Marathon in 1996. Sarah has also had many good placings in the United Arab Emirates, including 7th in the Presidents Cup. Sarah is currently training in Spain, preparing her horse, Takhar, for European Championship Endurance in September. June 18, 2007 - IT IS OUR 5th BIRTHDAY! THANK YOU! 5 years way into the top of the best forage manufacturers in the world. With a population just over 10.000 horses globally GGF JSC GOLDENGRASS supplies fresh forage around the globe every day. It took us five years to research and develop a product that beats all traditional hay producers and artificial hard feed manufacturers everyday in every country. THANK YOU!!! all the customers of Goldengrass who opened minds to the new technology and now the product changes history in horse nutrition and will save lives of hundreds at risk of respiratory diseases in the future. THANK YOU!!! all representatives in more than 20 countries for all those years of support and partnership. We wish you another 5 great years of even faster growth and satisfaction of our common passion – horses. Thank you everybody! Goldengrass team Lithuania February 27, 2007 -- Equitana Expo in Essen, Germany
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October 1, 2006 -- Indonesia representative appointed GADING EQUESTRIAN PT. PERKASA PRIMA PERDASA GEDUNG PACUAN KUDA PULO MAS JAKARTA 13210 INDONESIA PHONE: +62 21 4788 2885 September 1, 2006 -- Singapore representative appointed One of the leading Singapore's feeds and health stuffs trading company C MANO Ltd. will represent Goldengrass products in the region. C MANO Mano Equestrian Services Blk 20, Woodlands Link # 06-32 Woodlands East Industrial Estate Singapore 738733 E-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it June 1, 2006 -- Goldengrass network expansion to Dubai, UAE 2006 - another year of Goldengrass expansion. New branch office opening in Dubai, UAE. Director - Dr. Ajmal Shah appointed to lead Goldengrass operations expansion in mid East and Asian markets. GOLDEN GRASS FARMING MIDEAST LTD. P O BOX 231320 Dubai, United Arab Emirates Phone +971 4 2582 898 Fax +971 4 2582 376 E-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Internet: www.goldengrass.eu July 21, 2005 -- New bailing system We have changed big bale wrapping systems (to Mc Hale – No1 in the world) that ensures best compaction and quality inside big bale after wrapping. March 23, 2005 -- New 20% stronger packaging for Goldengrass
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