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Hartog Essential

Price range: € 17,15 through € 35,85

By adding Hartog Essential to your horse’s diet, you ensure that all essential vitamins, minerals, and trace elements are provided. This balancer distinguishes itself by using optimal, not minimal, values for nutrients. The levels of vitamin E and biotin have been increased to supplement levels to maximize their effectiveness.

Hartog Essential vitamine en mineralen balancer voor paarden

By adding Hartog Essential to your horse’s ration, you can be sure that you are providing your horse with all the necessary vitamins, minerals, and trace elements (organically bound). What sets Hartog Essential apart from other balancers is that the levels of vitamins, minerals, and trace elements are based not on minimum but on optimal values for your horse. For instance, the levels of vitamin E and biotin are elevated to supplement levels to ensure effectiveness.

Vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant and can support recovering, stressed, or performing horses. The levels of vitamin E in hay and pre-dried forage can be very low, which is why adding Hartog Essential is the best option to ensure optimal vitamin E levels in the ration. With Hartog Essential, there is no need to add separate vitamin or mineral supplements to your horse’s ration.

Furthermore, the biotin content has been increased to optimally support hoof health. In addition to individual nutrients, the ratios between vitamins, minerals, and trace elements have been optimized, eliminating the need to combine different feeds and/or vitamin supplements.

Extra attention has been paid to palatability in the development to make it not only healthy for your horse but also a real treat! The added flaxseed provides healthy omega-3 fatty acids. As you would expect from Hartog, Hartog Essential is not only packed with vitamins, minerals, and trace elements but also loaded with healthy fibers.

Who is this product suitable for?

Leisure horses
Nervous horses
Optimizing the fiber ration
Rehabilitating horses
Sensitive gastric system
Sober breeds
Sporthorses
Sugar sensitive horses

Product Features

Packaging

Available in a recyclable 12 kg paper bag or a 3.5 kg recyclable plastic bucket

Expiry date

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Store Hartog products ideally in a dedicated feed bin to protect them from moisture and contamination. If this is not possible, ensure the product is kept in a dry place, preferably off the ground. This helps prevent moisture from entering the packaging and causing mold. Proper storage preserves the quality of the feed.
Product explanation

By adding Hartog Essential to your horse’s ration, you can be sure that you are providing your horse with all the necessary vitamins, minerals, and trace elements (organically bound). What sets Hartog Essential apart from other balancers is that the levels of vitamins, minerals, and trace elements are based not on minimum but on optimal values for your horse. For instance, the levels of vitamin E and biotin are elevated to supplement levels to ensure effectiveness.

Vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant and can support recovering, stressed, or performing horses. The levels of vitamin E in hay and pre-dried forage can be very low, which is why adding Hartog Essential is the best option to ensure optimal vitamin E levels in the ration. With Hartog Essential, there is no need to add separate vitamin or mineral supplements to your horse’s ration.

Furthermore, the biotin content has been increased to optimally support hoof health. In addition to individual nutrients, the ratios between vitamins, minerals, and trace elements have been optimized, eliminating the need to combine different feeds and/or vitamin supplements.

Extra attention has been paid to palatability in the development to make it not only healthy for your horse but also a real treat! The added flaxseed provides healthy omega-3 fatty acids. As you would expect from Hartog, Hartog Essential is not only packed with vitamins, minerals, and trace elements but also loaded with healthy fibers.

Leisure horses
Nervous horses
Optimizing the fiber ration
Rehabilitating horses
Sensitive gastric system
Sober breeds
Sporthorses
Sugar sensitive horses

We recommend 60 grams of Hartog Essential per 100 kg of body weight per day, in addition to sufficient water and roughage.

As Hartog Essential is a highly concentrated feed, it comes with its own measuring cup.

One full measuring cup contains 175 grams of Hartog Essential. The measuring spoon is in the 3.5 kg bucket of Hartog Essential.

 

Horse weight Amount of Hartog Essential per day (grams) Amount of Hartog Essential per day (Hartog Essential scoops)
Paard (600 kg) 360 gram 2 Hartog Essential scoops
D/E Pony (450 kg) 270 gram 1,5 Hartog Essential scoop
C pony (300 kg) 180 gram 1 Hartog Essential scoop
B pony (200- 250 kg) 120 – 150 gram 0,75 Hartog Essential scoop
A pony/shetlander (150kg) 90 gram 0,5  Hartog Essential scoop

Packaging

Available in a recyclable 12 kg paper bag or a 3.5 kg recyclable plastic bucket

Shelf life

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Store Hartog products ideally in a dedicated feed bin to protect them from moisture and contamination. If this is not possible, ensure the product is kept in a dry place, preferably off the ground. This helps prevent moisture from entering the packaging and causing mold. Proper storage preserves the quality of the feed.

Ingredients

Dehydrated grass (70%), Linseed (10%), Calcium carbonate, Glycerin, Monocalcium phosphate, Magnesium oxide, Natrium chloride

Product analyse

VREp 95 /kg
EWPa 0,7 /kg
DE 9,5 MJ/kg
UFC (HFU) 0,6 /kg
MADC (DCPH) 75 /kg
Dry matter 90,8 %
Crude protein 11,5 %
Crude fat 5,2 %
Crude fiber 18,3 %
Crude ash 22,0 %
Starch 0,1 %
Sugar 9,0 %

Minerals

Calcium 31,8 g/kg
Phosphorus 11,8 g/kg
Magnesium 13,8 g/kg
Potassium 14,9 g/kg
Sodium 5,5 g/kg
Chloride 12,7 g/kg

Amino acids

Lysine 4,5 g/kg
Methionine 1,8 g/kg
Methionine + Cysteine 3,2 g/kg
Threonine 4,7 g/kg
Tryptophan 1,7 g/kg
Valine 6,0 g/kg

Vitamins

Vitamin A 57142,9 IE/kg
Vitamin D3 11428,6 IE/kg
Vitamin E 4285,7 mg/kg
itamin B1 Thiamin Mononitrate 114,3 mg/kg
itamin B2 Riboflavin 114,3 mg/kg
itamin PP Niacinamide 171,4 mg/kg
Vitamin B5 Pantothenic acid, (Calcium-Dpantothenate) 77,1 mg/kg
Vitamin B6 Pyridoxine 51,4 mg/kg
Vitamin B12 Cyanocobalamin 228,6 mcg/kg
Biotin 57142,9 mcg/kg
Vitamin B4 Choline Chloride 1714,3 mg/kg
Choline 1491,4 mg/kg
Vitamin B9 Folic acid 142,9 mg/kg

Trace elements

Iodine (Calcium iodate anhydrous) 8,6 mg/kg
Copper (Dicopper chloride trihydroxide) 214,3 mg/kg
Copper (Copper chelate of glycine hydrate) 100,0 mg/kg
Manganese (Manganese (II) oxide) 114,3 mg/kg
Manganese (Manganese chelate
of glycine hydrate)
57,1 mg/kg
Zinc (Zinc chloride hydroxide monohydrate) 757,1 mg/kg
Zinc (Zinc chelate of glycine hydrate 385,7 mg/kg
Selenium (Selenised yeast S. Cerevisiae ) 1,1 mg/kg
Selenium (Sodium selenite) 2,3 mg/kg

Benefits

Covers daily needs for vitamins, minerals, and trace elements.
Recipe free from molasses, grains, alfalfa, and soy.
Low in sugar and starch.
Highly palatable.

Product FAQ's

What makes the Hartog Essential so special?
Hartog Essential stands out because the levels of vitamins, minerals, and trace elements are based not on minimum but on optimal values. The levels of vitamin E and biotin have been elevated to supplement levels to ensure their effectiveness. Additionally, Hartog Essential contains organically bound trace elements.
Why is extra vitamin E added to the Hartog Essential?
Vitamin E is a potent antioxidant that can support horses during recovery, stress, or training. Vitamin E levels in hay and pre-dried forage can fluctuate and be very low, as the vitamin E content quickly decreases after harvesting. Vitamin E is added to Hartog Essential to guarantee the content, ensuring that your horse is not dependent on uncertain values and has no deficiencies in its ration. The vitamin E content in Hartog Essential is adjusted not to the minimum but to the optimal daily amount. Therefore, when feeding Hartog Essential, there is no need for additional vitamin E supplements.
What is a balancer?
Hartog Essential is a balancer, meaning it is highly concentrated in vitamins, minerals, and trace elements without providing a large amount of energy. In contrast, concentrate feed, such as "krachtvoer," is intended to supply extra energy (and in some cases, proteins). Consequently, concentrate feed is much less concentrated in vitamins, minerals, and trace elements than a balancer. On average, concentrate feed is calculated for a minimum intake of 2 kg per day (for a 600 kg horse). Many horses receive less than the recommended amount of concentrate feed because it may make them too excitable or overweight. In such cases, these horses often do not receive sufficient vitamins, minerals, and trace elements. A balancer ensures that horses meet their requirements for these nutrients without the need for concentrate feed.
Is the Hartog Essential a complete addition to roughage?
Yes! Hartog Essential provides your horse with all the daily necessary vitamins, minerals, and trace elements, along with extra vitamin E and biotin. You don't need to feed any additional concentrate alongside Hartog Essential. Even supplementing with vitamin E or biotin is unnecessary! If your horse has increased energy and/or protein requirements, perhaps due to heavy work, it may be necessary to combine Hartog Essential with another feed, such as Hartog Lucerne Mix. Feel free to contact us if you would like more information about Hartog Essential for your horse.
What is the difference between Hartog Essential and Hartog Comfort?
Hartog Essential is the balancer added to Hartog Comfort. Hartog Comfort incorporates all the benefits of Hartog Essential and additionally provides extra structure through chopped grass with various additions such as peas and lupine for additional amino acids. If you are looking for a balancer in pellet form, allowing for reduced volume feeding, then Hartog Essential is the one for you!

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