The world herbal market now is quite busy with oat straw extract products in the form of capsules, tinctures, or practical powders. This capsule, which contains extract from the immature avena sativa plant, has many benefits for humans. One of which is reducing inflammation, then raising mood and improving brain function.
People in Northern Europe and North America grow it and then process it in various ways to become the main ingredient in a number of industries such as the pharmaceutical industry. One way to preserve it so that it can continue to be the main ingredient for this industry is to wrap it in bales. Humans only use oat straw extract to maintain body fitness.
So, what about the animals on the farm? Horses, cows, and goats really need the nutrients in oat straw and several other types of straw. For horses, oat straw is a feed that will help them gain energy.
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Oat Straw for Horses
Horses are running animals that should not have excess fat and carbohydrates. For this reason, feeding oat straw is the best thing to keep horses fit. So, you need to check the use of plastic film as the main material for wrapping the bales. This material is very important considering that the quality of the oat straw in the bales can remain good as long as the wrapping also uses quality materials.
The use of a baler wrapper machine should also be the main focus in preparing oat straw bales. As long as the machine can work well and blend with the plastic wrapping film, no matter how many layers of wrapper there are. It will maintain the quality of the bale.
Feeding Oat Straw to Horses
Maybe many people don’t know that not all breeders really understand how to feed horses. This time we will discuss oat straw as a nutritious feed for horses, which are runners with bodies that you have to maintain in proportion. When you are ready to give straw feed to horses, you also have to pay attention to the following things:
Easy to Digest Feed
Domestic horses have different body conditions. Sometimes there are horses with bad teeth who will find oat straw more difficult for them to digest than other feeds. Meanwhile, other horses did not encounter the same problem so they were still able to digest it smoothly. So, do you have to provide different feed because of this condition?
Well, you should first consult with the veterinarian nearby before changing to another feed because oat straw and several other straws are the best recommendation feeds for horses to maintain their fitness. Make sure you don’t use chemicals on the feed so that the nutrition remains good.
Calculate the Amount of Feed
Fill your horses’ feed that day with oat straw as much as 30 percent of the total amount of feed for one meal. Straw can help horses reduce calories in their feed that day. Don’t forget to feed it to your horses gradually. Especially if this is the horse’s first time recognizing oat straw feed.
They need to adjust first so that their digestive tract has a break to accept the new menu. This also greatly affects the overall health of the body.
Hydration is Important
Clean drinking water should always be available near your horse. When they eat or rest on bedding straw, they will easily find access to clean water. You don’t have to always check whether your horse needs water or not.
Then just before feeding oat straw, you don’t need to soak the straw. There may be concerns that horses may choke. However, this straw is safe and on average straw does have high levels of water soluble carbohydrates.
Feeding Adult Horses Oat Straw This Winter
The extreme winter made breeders act quickly in adjusting animal feed. Especially the horses they keep where you can only feed adult horses with oat straw in winter. You may have prepared the bales 4 to 6 months before winter comes. Harvesting the straw actually occurs when the stems and leaves are still green. This is a suitable nutrient for horse feed because the forage and seeds are still abundant with high energy and protein content.
The baler wrapper machine will help bales of dense oat straw so that the plastic film can wrap them perfectly from all sides. About 4 to 6 layers of plastic wrap the round or rectangular bales for easy storage for the next 6 to 12 months.
When you do oat straw bale removal on the day of feeding, you will only give it directly to adult horses that are in a certain maintenance period, as well as pregnant mares. Adult horses will love it because of the delicious taste of the straw. Sometimes adult horses also leave the stems after eating all the leaves and seeds.
Measure Nitrate Level
Next, don’t forget to measure the nitrate level in your horse’s total diet for the day in winter so that the level does not exceed 0.5 percent. We know that if the nitrate level is high in a bale of oat straw, it will make the feed dry. Horses won’t like the taste.
Silage Film and Net Wrap
So, to overcome many problems with oat straw bales for your horse’s feed, Silopak provides a variety of plastic silage films and net wrap. Proper and high-quality plastic wrap will keep the nutritional content in the bales longer. Our customers have proven for themselves that their bales last a very long time, even reaching 18 months since the wrapping process on the first day. You don’t need to hesitate even if you have a baler wrapper machine that previously didn’t use our plastic film.
You can contact us for the best products to wrap your animal feed or others as the vivid and safe bales. We will give you the product recommendation as what we always do to all customers abroad.