Description
Horses are trickle feeders, which mean they would naturally spend 75% of their time eating. This ensures that their digestive system works at its best but sometimes daily routine or weight issues may result in their diet being restricted, and your horse not getting to snack as much as they would like!
Vitamunch Heavenly Hedgerow is a high quality, 1kg formed block of slow dried Timothy grass so to maintain a fresh and succulent flavour. The blocks are then enriched with essential vitamins and minerals together with added horse-favourite herbs which they will naturally seek out when in the field – rosehips, hawthorns and cleavers. Vitamunch blocks are a fantastic way of keeping your horse occupied, happy and quiet in a number of scenarios:
- In stressful times such as loading, travelling, separation from companions and clipping
- A snack between meals if your horse’s grazing has to be restricted
The low sugar content of Vitamunch makes them an ideal snack or boredom breaker for horses or ponies prone to laminitis or obesity, and the airtight packaging not only means that they last for a year, but also maintains that ‘just harvested’ smell and freshness. In fact, Nine out of ten horses prefer a Vitamunch block to their usual hay and haylage!
Ways to feed Vitamunch
Vitamunch blocks are a great way of helping your horse with their daily fibre intake, and can be fed in a number of ways to both extend your horse’s eating time, and keep them entertained:
- Can be fed wet or dry
- Can be fed in the stable, field or when travelling
- Feed in our specially designed Munch Net
- Place Vitamunch in the middle of a full haynet for an added surprise for your horse!
The Science
Vitamunch has been developed to provide a healthy snack for your horse, that’s low calorie, high fibre, low sugar and cereal free, making it suitable for all horses and ponies. The Timothy grass has been slow dried at a low temperature, allowing the hay to maintain a fresh, succulent flavour, as well as nutrient levels.
For more information about Vitamunch, how they’re made and for more nutrition information, visit our Wellbeing Centre and Munch FAQs, as well as our Nutrition Quality Policy for all of our nutrition products.
Alice Goring –
My horses are all absolutely OBSESSED with Munch! The blocks are small and portable meaning that they are always a lorry essential when we go to stay aways or abroad as they take up minimal space but the horses love them. Our miniature Shetland @teddytheshetland would definitely count it as one of his all time favourite snacks!!
Louise –
“Lenny tucking into a delicious Hay Block by Equilibrium Products! Great for any Horse on box rest like my man because it is low calorie, low sugar and cereal free, which leaves me worry free about him putting on weight with a damaged tendon.”
Ella Bubb –
“My horse adores them, meaning they are a great, healthy way to reward him, which he loves. I have also found Vitamunch a good way to keep Sky occupied whilst we are away from home. I first bought Vitamunch when we were staying away at a show and Sky was getting quite stressed with everything going on. I was looking for something to keep Sky occupied and the Vitamunch worked perfectly. I fed it from a munchnet hung from the middle of his stable, meaning he spent many hours playing with it which he loved and it stopped him worrying.
I believe that Vitamunch cubes are definitely the best stable toy/snack available due to their high fibre and low sugar content. They are also enriched with many vitamins and minerals. This means that unlike traditional stable licks and toys that are loaded with sugar, the Vitamunch cubes provide a direct nutritional benefit to the horse. For this reason, I think that the Vitamunch cubes are a great product as they provide the horse with entertainment, whilst providing a nutritional benefit and not loading unnecessary sugar into horses.”
Mrs Jeni Hayes –
Just wanted to say – my horse totally loves these, especially the hedgerow flavour!
Being a larger than average chap – likits tend to only last less than a minute or two. I hung it up in the morning and he was still vitamunching in the afternoon!
Though I think he was a little concerned that he had been put on a diet when he saw the mini haynet!
Sue Mitchell –
My horse likes the Vitamunch. It took her three days to eat it so I am pleased with that as if she had scoffed it down in one session, it would be expensive to buy. But to have 2-3 per week is acceptable!
Stephanie Batty –
“I would like to state how FANTASTIC your new product vitamunch is! It is packed full of nutrients and goodness your horse needs! My B.E. Eventing horse (paddy) loves the meadow vitamunch for a bit of relaxation after being exercised and groomed.”
Jenni Surgeon –
“I am writing to to firstly congratulate you on this amazing product. My horse is currently on box rest after just under going colic surgery and gets bored easily so I thought I would try the Vitamunch blocks and he loves them!!”
Hilary Boughton –
“It was the ultimate test as they have access to a field of lush green grass but chose the Vitamunch! I also had to put my 2 year old, Shower, on the other side of the fence as he and Twinkle were fighting over it! My horses are quite fussy and won’t touch certain makes of licks and treats. However, they enjoyed the Vitamunch and it has passed their test :)”
Lesley Peyton Gilbert –
“I love it because my stallion can’t be turned out and when I hand graze him I notice how he picks certain things, dandelion and cleavers being some if the things it gives him some natural variation in his diet especially when the carrots finish. I particularly like it for travelling when we go abroad as I feed it soaked and I think thus helps keep him healthy !
Ursula –
“I would just like to say how grateful I am that you have designed the new munch net treat!
My young dressage horse sadly had to have an operation last week and these treat are the only thing that keeps him settled and occupied long enough to keep himself out of trouble with his rather stressed mummy.
Trying to keep a 5yro quiet is nearly impossible lol.
He absolutely adores them and I have never seen him tuck into anything like this before, he will choose to eat his munch net over hard feed and hay.
Once again thank you so much for a job well done.”
Mrs Suzanne Weaver –
“I felt I had to email you to say thank you for a fab product !
I have tried other products of a similar type but nothing compares to yours. I have a quarter horse and a hairy cob who have to stay in some days due to my quarter horse having sarcoid treatments . They used to get bored with hay until I came across your vitamunch ! I was at my local feed shop and the owner suggested it, so I bought the 2 pack with munch net x2. Well i can say the boys nearly bit my arm off to get them! I have tried the Moreish Meadow and the Healthy Hedgerow and both have been devoured with relished. Now, when the boys have to stay in they watch me get the green munch nets out and they start banging the doors ! I can do anything with them, except take the nets away, when they are engrossed in munching .
Thank you again for your fab product.”
Claire Enticott –
“I have a horse on boxrest (tore a hole in his stifle) but he hasn’t been very settled, so I ordered some vitamuch from viovet. Now this is a very fussy thoroughbred who doesn’t normally entertain any fibre blocks and I wasn’t sure if he would touch them and therefore were they worth the money. However, he loves these (both flavours), they keep him settled whilst the other horses are turned out!”
Lucy Griffiths –
“I would like to give you a 10 million* review on your feeding blocks, my horse Konnie has to have 2 weeks box rest and as soon as I opened the packet she immediately cheered up and was desperate to get to it! We still have 12 days to go and I think your products are going to be the only thing to get us through, thank you!”
Romy Fryer –
‘The Vitamunch we got from Your Horse Live was great when clipping Sprout! Having been clipped only once under sedation, he stood like a lamb this year nibbling on his Vitamunch. Fabulous product”
Horse Owner, UK –
“I bought a few of these for my horse who is on box rest and he really loved it. Even ignored his carrots and treat ball (yes, he is a bit spoilt) to play with his vitamunch. The net is great too”