Baileys Lo-Cal Balancer - anyone feed this?

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ladyearl

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Feel a bit nervous as I've just fed horse with Baileys Low Cal for first time. She's on part loan and is a very VERY good doer. However, I am a bit OTT about making sure animals get the right nutrients and have pursuaded her owner that this should not put any weight on her. Yikes!

Does anyone have experience with this feed? I've used the kitchen scales to weigh out the right amount and only added a carrot and and apple to bulk it out..

She gets no other hard feed, haylage twice per day and lives out.
 
I fed Mousey this - he didn't gain any weight on it, but his coat looked better and seemed happier and healthier in himself. I would try it for 6 weeks or so and see how it goes. You can always stop feeding it if yours does suddenly get fatter etc.
 
I feed it with Hifi-lite chaff. If you are concerned about weight I would lose the apple/carrot. They are high in sugar and therefore not good for fatties! My current horse is a good doer and my previous horse had an episode of laminitis and so I am very careful about what I feed.
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I did feed it to my TB but he went loopy on it, have no idea why cause theres nothing in it
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Have now switched to Top Spec lite which he has bloomed on
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it is perfect to feed for a fattie
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he will get everything he needs from it!! and its good you have weighed it out to
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I have feed this before to my old boys but found I needed more as they dropped weight from time to time, but I will be feeding it to my NF x this spring as I think its a brilliant product.

I don't think it puts weight on and means my little guy gets everything he needs even when his is on very restricted grazing in the summer...
 
I feed it to my warmblood - its low in molasses which goes to her head! She is also a good does. She ahs built up topline muscle where she needed it but not got fat. Give us enough energy too
 
i feed this to my mums irish chap and our shetland. mums horse does very little as she's quite nervous so mainly walk and trot and maybe one canter, 3 or 4 times a week and the shetland does bog all!!!

its fab-gives them all the nutrients and a *proper rattly bucket feed* which keeps them happy.
coats look fab (even hairy shetland gleams like a mirror) and feet are also great (the horse works barefoot).

cant reccomend it enough, IMHO better than topspec, which sent everything loopy,coats went dull and feet went really flat and flared.
 
George is really good doer and he just has a mug of lo-cal mixed with 3/4 scoop of hi-fi lite per feed. It certainly didn't make him put on any weight but it made a tremendous difference to his coat and feet - great stuff!
 
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