LONGfibe™ Forage Cubes

all around the world

1,000s

of horses are fed less than the ideal nutritional feed stuff.

Horses have evolved over the years but one thing has remained the same.  They are a non-ruminant herbivore, therefore it is essential that they have correct and balanced nutrition which is a critical component of proper horse care. 

You can consider prospective options and additions to your horse's  diet when issues such as these arise.

However, ensuring adequate fiber and roughage is the most challenging task with a forage replacement. A good digestive system requires fiber. It offers energy, fills the intestine, and soaks up the water in the gut. There are many significant issues with the lack of fiber, including boredom, colic, dehydration, diarrhea, gastric ulcers, energy deficiency, and starvation.

Give your equine athlete the chance to be the best they can be, the most natural way they know how.

For their sustenance, horses need a constant source of forage. Due to various problems such as poor quality pasture/hay or difficulty obtaining hay (transport, availability), it can be difficult to provide your horses with adequate quality forage and pasture.

MAAAX LONGfibe

Minimum Length: 1.77"

Because cubes have a reduced moisture content, less mold and spores, remain better longer, retain their dietary profile, are simpler to store and can produce less waste than traditional hay, it is well recognized that forage cubes are the #1 forage substitute.

Remembering that fiber length is the most significant element when searching for cubes will guarantee the horse will recieve its daily recommended fiber intake to maintain its mental and gastroitestinal health.

Fiber Length

To promote digestive and mental health, MAAAX forage particles are at least 1.77 inches in length. Traditional cubes max out at approx. 1-1 1/4 inches which may not have sufficient fiber to fulfill the daily demands of your horse.

Increased Energy

Up to 50% more digestible power is produced by MAAAX. Even performance horses supplied with a 100% forage diet will have better health than those fed with elevated concentrate quantities.

Longer Chewing  Abilities

MAAAX enables longer chewing times and more saliva output to improve the fermentation process and help the horse's delicate and complicated digestive system to improve general health. Saliva flow enables the gastrointestinal tract to maintain stable pH concentrations and helps to buffer gastric acid.

Better Re-hydration

MAAAX allows for better re-hydration and longer performance abilities in horses.

Hay Re-placement

MAAAX lengthy fibers create an optimal substitute for hay and sometimes even concentrates.

Every field is inspected and certified by a third party agronomists. Inspections are mandatory at every step of production including site selection, seed establishment and throughout growth stages. This is where our trade mark iTrack™ Agra system initializes making the forage products electronically traceable for each individual bag back to the field.  

Why does MAAAX outclass the 

competition?

Ever wonder where your cubes

come from?

Understanding why horses require excellent quality forage as their foundation is the first phase in ensuring that your horse remains happy and healthy for the rest of its years. To do this, we need to understand how horses are digesting certain foods such as forage and carbohydrates. 

In order to understand the significance of fermentation in animal digestion, a brief explanation of carbohydrate digestion is needed. The digestion of starch occurs primarily through the work of enzymes in the small intestine.

The final product of starch digestion is chiefly glucose. Though most starch digestion occurs in the small intestine through enzymatic action, minimal fermentation of starch occurs in the stomach and portions of the large intestine (the cecum and the colon). The end products of starch fermentation in the large intestine are volatile fatty acids (VFAs) and lactic acid.

In contrast to starch, plant fiber is digested entirely by fermentation, which results in the production of VFAs. Fermentation of plant fiber occurs in the hindgut of the horse. 

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