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Generator Horse and Alpaca 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
The Seed: Seed Information: Use for:
Bareno Brome Grass A standout high quality and persistent brome 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)
Ella Cocksfoot When compared to older cultivars Ella has a finer leaves and is less clumpy.
Vision Cocksfoot High dry matter yield, increased palatability and is less invasive
Massey Basyn
Yorkshire Fog
Containing high levels of condensed tannins which improves animal health
Kahu Timothy High summer feed value
NZ Browntop A slow growing and dense cultivar.

Recommended sowing @ 25 kgs per hectare / or or more with options

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Generator General Purpose Horse Pasture Mix
The Seed: Seed Information: Use for:
Advance Max P Tall Fescue Tall Fescue is a perennial grass more tolerant of hot summer, poorly drained soils than perennial ryegrass. This seed mix is has 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 Alto Perennial Ryegrass Alto is a high performance late flowering perennial ryegrass suitable for all farm systems.
Kano Italian Ryegrass Excellent dry matter production, very strong winter growth and Nil Endophyte.
Vision Cocksfoot High dry matter yield, increased palatability and is less invasive
Kahu Timothy High summer feed value

Recommended sowing @ 25 kgs per hectare / or more with options

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Generator Alpaca Pasture Seed Mix
The Seed: Seed Information: Use for:
Bareno 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)
Advance Max P Tall Fescue Tall Fescue is a perennial grass more tolerant of hot summer, poorly drained soils than perennial ryegrass.
Ella Cocksfoot When compared to older cultivars Ella has a finer leaves and is less clumpy.
Vision 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

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Generator Extras for the Horse and Alpaca Pasture Seed Mixes
The Seed: Seed Description: Recommended use rate:
Chicory Deep tap like rooting system with excellent stock health attributes and summer performance. Recommended cultivars: Punter, Choice or Chico 1 to 2 kgs per hectare
Plantain A fibrous broadleaf mineral pasture herb. Recommended cultivars: Boston or Tonic 500 grams to 1 kg per hectare
White Clover A base legume for most pastures in New Zealand. Persistent and leafy cultivar that fixes atmospheric nitrogen.
Recommended cultivars: Weka, Tribute or Demand
2 to 4 kgs per hectare
Red Clover A tap rooted clover with very high feed value, with excellent summer production.
Recommended cultivars: Tuscan, Sensation or Hamua
2 to 5 kgs per hectare
Kentucky Blue Grass Added to our both our Horse mixes for high fiber. Recommended cultivar: Conni 1.5 to 2 kgs per hectare



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