Anyone still feeding Simple Systems?

[PurplePickle]

I fed this to a skinny TB a year or two ago, but they went off it and I went off it being horrible to make up.

However having a big horse who loses weight over winter drastically I thought Id give it anouther go. I noticed they have some new products aswell.

Are you still using it, if so which products?

One of ours cant have dusty food or eat dry pencils he has to have it moist.

 

[Jane_Lou]

Friend uses it but the only way she can get her horse to eat the stuff is to pour loads of molasses over it - she goes through a 5 litre bottle a week

- she swears that it is better for hor horse than as she calls them other "sugary" mixes and nuts

 

[foo]

I use it, have done for a few years now, i think its great

 

[CBAnglo]

SWame with me - complete faff to mix up and soak various things for different periods. I know you can chuck everything into a bowl and soak it all together but my boy wouldnt eat that at all. He was ok with it for about 3 weeks or so, then spent more time flinging the stuff round his stable than anything else. In the end I managed to get him to eat the nuts and beet but he hated the lucie box so I ended up throwing out 2 bags of the stuff as no-one I knew used it. Complete disaster!

Horse now just on ordinary dengie hi-fi lite, spillers fibre cubes and speedibeet and licks bowl clean every day and has kept to a really good weight (he actually gets quite fat in summer and needs to go on a diet).

Maybe try one of the conditioning cubes or mixes and sugar beet for keeping weight on?

 

[barrymeningen]

I feed it to my event horses and have done for years, in fact I'd be loathed to use anything else. I don't have any trouble at all with horses not eating it but I feed lucie nuts rather than bix. As for pouring molasses over it; doesn't that rather defeat the whole point of feeding it?

 

[Bosworth]

I have fed it to my own horse for about 12 years, and my liveries for about 5 years all love it, have no problem on it and find it really easy to use. No wasteage at all and all bowls licked clean. Pouring mollasses on it is really stupid. Why on earth does she think that is better for her horse. And to be honest the reason most horses don't dash to eat it is because it is not full of sugar unlike most other food. As a child which would you have preferred - salad and fruit or crisps and sweets. By putting mollasses on it she is giving her horse just lots of sweets and crisps - and if she did that with a child she would have it removed from her care.

 

[sleepingdragon10]

Okaayyyay........so why does she feed the SS feeds given their whole philosophy is based upon cereal and sugar free diets?