Horse & Alpaca pasture mixes.
Generator Horse and Alpaca Pasture Seed Mixes:
Specialty Seeds offer a specialist range of Horse and Alpaca Seed Mixes:
Horses require completely different pastoral requirements from other stock types and our mixes reflect these horse specific requirements. The cultivars used in this mix contain no harmful endophytes or clovers making it safe for your horses.
Please feel free to browse through these and when you’ve found the one that most suits your needs you can contact us. Also remember that we also custom blend to your individual requirements.
We offer:
- Generator ‘Non Rye’ Horse Pasture Seed Mix
- Generator General Purpose Horse Pasture Mix
- Generator Alpaca Pasture Seed Mix
- Extras for the Generator Horse and Alpaca Pasture Seed Mixes
| Generator ‘Non Rye’ Horse Pasture Seed Mix | ||
| The Mix: | Cultivar Description | Use for: |
| Atom Brome Grass | A standout high quality and persistent brome / prairie grass. Can be either set stocked or rotationally grazed | A horse specific pasture seed blend. Contains no ryegrass or clovers. The grasses used have no harmful endophyte within them. Suitable as a new pasture or to renovate existing poor performing pastures. (We recommend the use of Poncho Seed Treatment for seedling Insect protection) |
| Savvy Cocksfoot | When compared to older cultivars, has a finer leaves and is less clumpy. | |
| Redefine Cocksfoot | High dry matter yield, increased palatability and is less invasive | |
| Yorkshire Fog | Containing high levels of condensed tannins which improves animal health | |
| Timothy | High summer feed value | |
| NZ Browntop | A slow growing and dense cultivar. | |
| Recommended sowing @ 25 kgs per hectare / or more with options | ||
| Click here to download the Generator Non Rye Horse Pasture Seed Mix brochure | ||
| Click here if you would you like to add some more? Clovers / Herbs / Grasses? | ||
Generator General Purpose Horse Pasture Mix |
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| The Mix: | Cultivar Description | Use for: |
| Nouga tall Fescue | Tall Fescue is a perennial grass more tolerant of hot summer, poorly drained soils than perennial ryegrass. | This seed mix is having been created for as a Horse pasture mix but it also has been created to include other stock types that could include both Sheep and Cattle. (We recommend the use of Poncho Seed Treatment for seedling Insect protection) |
| AR1 / Low endophyte Governor Perennial Ryegrass | Governor perennial ryegrass is a new release densely tillered, late flowering diploid ryegrass suitable for all farm systems. | |
| Italian Ryegrass | Excellent dry matter production, very strong winter growth and Nil Endophyte. | |
| Savvy Cocksfoot | High dry matter yield, increased palatability and is less invasive | |
| Timothy | High summer feed value | |
Generator Alpaca Pasture Seed Mix |
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| The Mix: | Cultivar Description | Use for: |
| Atom Brome Grass | A standout high quality and persistent brome grass. Can be either set stocked or rotationally grazed. | An Alpaca specific pasture seed mix as it contains no ryegrasses. Suitable as a new pasture or to renovate existing poor performing pastures. (We recommend the use of Poncho Seed Treatment for seedling Insect protection) |
| Nouga Tall Fescue | Tall Fescue is a perennial grass more tolerant of hot summer, poorly drained soils than perennial ryegrass. | |
| Savvy Cocksfoot | When compared to older cultivars Ella has a finer leaves and is less clumpy. | |
| Redefine Cocksfoot | High dry matter yield, increased palatability and is less invasive | |
| Demand White Clover | Highly stoloniferous, high yielding and persistent white clover | |
| Recommended sowing @ 25 kgs per hectare / or or more with options | ||
| Click here if you would you like to add some more? Clovers / Herbs / Grasses? | ||
| Generator Extras for the Horse and Alpaca Pasture Seed Mixes | ||
| The Seed: | Seed Description: | Recommended use rate: |
| Cocksfoot | Cocksfoot is a very persistent perennial grass that tolerates summer dry conditions, moderate soil fertility, insect attack and continual set stocking. | 2 to 4 kgs per hectare |
| Chicory | Chicory has a deep, tap like, rooting system, and provides excellent stock health attributes and summer performance. | 1 to 2 kgs per hectare |
| Plantain | A fibrous broadleaf mineral rich pasture herb. | 500 grams to 1 kg per hectare |
| Red Clover | A tap rooted clover with very high feed value, with excellent summer production. | 2 to 5 kgs per hectare |
| Timothy | Very palatable to all stock types care must be taken to avoid over grazing. Has very high herbage quality features. | 2 to 3 kgs per hectare |
| Phalaris | Phalaris grows with vigour during the Autumn, Winter and Spring but is semi – dormant during the Summer. | 1 to 2 kgs per hectare |
Downloads: If you require more information on how to best manage your horse pasture please click here to download a Horse Pasture Management Guide