24/08/2026
Do You Actually Know What's In That Scoop?
Here's a question that trips up even seasoned horse owners: how much does your horse's feed actually weigh?
If you're measuring by the scoop, the honest answer is usually “no idea” — and that's a problem. A scoop measures volume, not weight. Two feeds that fill the same scoop can weigh completely differently depending on how dense they are, how they're packed, and how moist they are. So the “one scoop” you think you're feeding could be well under, or well over, what your horse actually needs.
Why weighing matters:
Your horse's diet is built on numbers — energy, protein, and most importantly, fibre. Get the weights wrong and the whole ration is off. Underfeed and you risk a horse that drops condition and misses out on the forage its gut is designed to run on. Overfeed and you're wasting feed (and money) and potentially tipping the balance toward digestive upset.
Weighing takes the guesswork out. Suddenly you know exactly what your horse is getting.
How much fibre does your horse need?
Horses are trickle-feeders — their digestive systems are built to have fibre moving through, all day, every day. As a rule of thumb, a horse needs a minimum of 1.5% of its bodyweight in forage/fibre daily, and ideally forage should make up at least half of total daily intake.
For a 500kg horse, that's at least 7.5kg of forage a day — and many need more. That's a lot of ground to make up if your scoop is quietly short-changing them.
The easy fix:
Grab a set of scales. Weigh a scoop of each feed once, write it on the bin, and you'll never have to guess again. With Fiber Fresh, a good starting point is roughly 0.5kg per 100kg of bodyweight — but always feed by weight, not volume.
Your scales might be the cheapest piece of gear in the feed room. They're also one of the most important.
