Australian Feed Co Pty Ltd
Food in Gosford

No matter the horse, Mitavite have the perfect balance of nutrition for your everyday feed and supplement needs. In conjunction with leading equine professionals, Mitavite have created numerous resources to assist with your every day and exceptional needs care of your horse. Already heavily involved within the food industry, Lapointe put together a plan to produce specialist equine feeds, building the beginning Mitavite feed mill on his own property, Muskoka Farms at Gunderman, close to Smart man's Ferry in MSW. They wanted to take the guesswork out of horse feeding by providing trainers and horse owners with a range of horse feeds that were scientifically formulated and in their words provided everything in the bag. They worn radical fresh techniques to formulate whole feeds, including the development of horse specific amigo acid profiles, the analysis of energy pathways and the accepting of the interaction and metabolism of vitamins and minerals through the horse's digestive system. Many of the original, groundbreaking manufacturing processes are still in use at Mitavite today. Ray Baffin was appointed to further the development of the Mitavite product range. Ray is still closely involved with Mitavite today, providing veterinary and nutritional consultancy services and helping to retain Mitavite at the forefront of equine nutrition. Although research has resulted in countless new innovations over the decades, many of the creative formulations have not been bettered and still form piece of each Mitavite feed today. The quick acceptance of our Mitavite product range was aspiring by the victory our customers were enjoying on the race track, on studs and agistment properties throughout Australia, Fresh Zealand, Asia and the Middle East. At this time a new steam extrusion process was commissioned to enhance the digestibility of grain starches, a process that tranquil plays an integral part in many of our give day feeds. Sadly Sam Rutherford passed away in 1997 but the passion and enthusiasm that drove Sam Rutherford and his partners to triumph in the 1980's is quiet very apparent today. Our staff take vast pride in every bag of Mitavite that leaves the plant and they eagerly follow the win of loyal customers in the pursuits throughout the equine world.