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Why Mountain Sunrise?
Forage pellets give your horse a consistent, clean, easy-to-digest diet, and make feeding simpler for you.
The benefits
Why horse owners switch to pellets
The same diet at every feeding
Every pellet carries guaranteed levels of protein, fat, fiber, vitamins and minerals. With hay, horses sort leaves from stems and eat unevenly through the day. With pellets, every meal is the same.
Top-quality hay, no binders or fillers
We inspect every load of hay, and often the fields before they’re cut. We never add bentonite or any other binder or filler. Our motto is “Quality above all else.”
Easy to handle, store and haul
Pellets are quicker and cleaner to weigh and feed, so anyone can feed the right amount. They take up less than half the space of baled hay, and because of our process they can go into National Forests and Parks and across state lines.
No waste
Fed in a proper container, pellets get eaten completely. Hay gets scattered, trampled and blown away.
Easy to chew and digest
Pellets are easy on horses with poor teeth, which can quid hay and are at higher risk of choke. Smaller particles give digestive enzymes and microbes more surface to work on, so horses digest more and pass less manure.
Find the right forage for your horse
Browse all our pellets, then find a store near you. Carried by 270+ feed stores across the West. Stock varies, so call ahead, and if it isn’t on the shelf, ask the store to order it in.
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