Baileys no. 14, low cal balancer

She wanted my sisters lami prone welsh mare on a stubbs scoop of alfa a twice a day. Umm... no i think really she should be on a handful of plain chaff to keep her quiet at breakfast time!

And my weanling who was growing like a weed and needed nothing but a balancer apparently needed 2 stubbs scoops of conditioning cubes and also 2 stubbs scoops of alfalfa a day as he was lean. Of course he was lean he was a growing baby and i didnt want his young joints overloaded with excess weight! I just stood there open mouthed and said id carry on feeding a cup of balancer as i had been previously.

Then, a year after i saw her again when i took my foal to be evaluated at a futurity. She decided to tell me that he was under muscled and bum high.. sort of what you'd expect a 4 month old foal to be. But she thought maybe i should think about giving him some supplementary feed to build him up a bit. He was an enormous foal..i wouldnt've dreamt of feeding him extra as he was getting enough from my mare! Why on earth would i want to build up an already very big foal?!!

Spoke to some other people who were there who didn't value her advice either.
 
Fii said:
Thinking of feeding my 19 yr old mare this balancer.
She is NF and is on rough grazing through the winter but on restricted grazing in the summer as she is prone to laminitis, she is a good do-er, i dont want to feed her huge buckets of feed, she doesnt need it, but i think she may be at the age she needs a little more help in winter!
Can any body recommend this or maybe something else?
Thank you!
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Definitely. I use it on its own with Hi-Fi in the summer and as a balancer with the usual (small)feed of nuts and Hi-Fi when Horse needs it in winter. Great stuff and not as expensive as other balancers. Have used it for many years and Horse is a 20 yr old who looks half his age.
 
Fii said:
How much training in nutrition do these people get? Or is it more the case of how much money they get paid for selling the product?/ ;)
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When I first started using it 12 years ago it was on the advice of a Bailey's rep who was a qualified equine nutritionist - whatever one of those is.
 
Ive always been a huge Baileys fan,find there products work wonderfully and mine always enjoy them. This winter i was going to invest in No. 14, but being £30 near enough,i glanced around for a cheaper option and stumbled upon Horse and pony direct's low cal balancer. My two chubbie's are doing well on it - Dartmoor x is developing more shine to her coat and generally far more energetic. Both are maintaining a good weight,and have much healthier looking skin/coats then before,so am pleased with it so far! I feed it along with Mollichaff Original and additional seaweed.
I always panic there not getting all of what they need from there not so nutritious roughage - im hopeful this is just the nutritious boost they need to stay as happy and healthy as possible. :3
 
Toast said:
She wanted my sisters lami prone welsh mare on a stubbs scoop of alfa a twice a day. Umm... no i think really she should be on a handful of plain chaff to keep her quiet at breakfast time!

And my weanling who was growing like a weed and needed nothing but a balancer apparently needed 2 stubbs scoops of conditioning cubes and also 2 stubbs scoops of alfalfa a day as he was lean. Of course he was lean he was a growing baby and i didnt want his young joints overloaded with excess weight! I just stood there open mouthed and said id carry on feeding a cup of balancer as i had been previously.

Then, a year after i saw her again when i took my foal to be evaluated at a futurity. She decided to tell me that he was under muscled and bum high.. sort of what you'd expect a 4 month old foal to be. But she thought maybe i should think about giving him some supplementary feed to build him up a bit. He was an enormous foal..i wouldnt've dreamt of feeding him extra as he was getting enough from my mare! Why on earth would i want to build up an already very big foal?!!

Spoke to some other people who were there who didn't value her advice either.
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:eek::eek::eek: Dread to think of the novice horse owners who actually take her advice!
 
Definitely recommend it - have fed it to five very different horses and ponies and been very happy with it. They all had lovely shiny coats, looked and felt very healthy and had good hoof horn quality.
 
I give my young Sec D Baileys no.14 with a small amount of Dengies hi-fi lite and micronised linseed. The Bailey's lasts well over a month and the hi-fi is so densely packed it goes on forever. Also now put the 2 Sec A's on the same diet.

So far so good. Laid back ponies with super glossy shiny healthy coats. Thumbs up from me :)
 
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