Benchmark Invest®
Benchmark Invest® is an excellent feed choice for mares, young stock and spellers, for several reasons:
Highly Digestible
Fully steam extruded for optimal digestibility and nutrient retention. Better feed conversion means lower feeding rates.
Wholefood Formula
The Invest formulation uses only whole food ingredients, with no fillers or milling by-products. Barley is selected as the carbohydrate because of its lower starch and higher fibre levels — about 40% more fibre than wheat and 140% more than corn.
Invest provides energy from both carbohydrates and Volatile Fatty Acids (VFAs)
Highly fermentable dietary super fibres, such as the lupin hulls in Benchmark Invest®, offer a valuable and natural, low starch source of energy for horses. These fibres digest quickly, producing Volatile Fatty Acids (VFAs), which provide fat-based energy. Being very low in starch and sugar, Lupin hulls also help to reduce the overall starch content in the ration, lowering the risk of Developmental Orthopaedic Disease (DODs) in young horses.
Supports better feed conversion and overall health and wellbeing
Benchmark Invest® contains Agrimos® prebiotic and Yea Sacc® probiotic. The combination of highly fermentable fibre and quality prebiotics and probiotics is, we believe, a real a driver to improving gut health and the measurable benefits that flow from this. Typical benefits are weight gain, improved coat condition and increased vitality, particularly noticeable in growing horses or horses under stress.
“We made the switch to Benchmark Invest® on our Thoroughbred stud the minute we could get our hands on it. We needed the peace of mind that what we were feeding our mares and young horses was exactly the same every feed, every bag.
What we have been most impressed with is the reduction of x-ray issues with our weanlings and yearlings for sales, we rarely get epiphysitis now and our mares look fantastic all year round.
The transparency and integrity with which the Benchmark brand prides itself is something that every horse breeder should be looking for when we choose a feed for our horses.”
Jo Duncan, Forest View Farm, Western Australia