Blue Chip super concentrated balancer

[awelshandawarmblood]

Does anyone on here use it?

I have one older sugar sensitive boy & a growing youngster.

I have been reading up on the super concentrated balancers & they sound fab (on paper) including most of what I usually add individually to their feeds such as mag ox, glucosamine, breathing supplement, probiotics etc. Most importantly its molasses free! I cant find anything else which includes all this in pellet form, as I'm find it difficult with all the powders I add

I've found old reviews saying Blue Chip has fizzed their horses up etc but it was back in 2010! So I was woindering if the formulas have changed & this is no longer case, or if anyone on here uses them at all?

I was thinking of putting my older horse on the senior & youngster on joint.

 

[sbloom]

I would go for a formula from a barefoot friendly brand such as Forageplus or Progressive Earth, iron free and ultra low starch or starch free, unlike most big company balancers. If you post the figures then you could get more feedback.

 

[awelshandawarmblood]

Thank you for replying

Its a combination of Progressive earth & various other straights I use at the moment, but adding them in individually I'm find difficult to mix into the feed to the point of making it pallatable without either feeding hidden in a huge amount of mash or without adding mollases! So then it becomes counter productive. The blue chip is pellets which I know both of mine would wolf down, its just whether its any good or not

This is what is listed as in the Blue chip super concentrated senior . . . . .

Composition: Wheatfeed, Extracted sunflower, Dehulled soya bean meal, Full fat soya, Glucosamine, Chaste tree berries (3.0%), Full fat linseed, Calcium carbonate, Sodium chloride, Mannan oligosaccharides, Yeast nucleotides, Rosa canina, Garlic granules, Eucalyptus, Menthol. Analytical Constituents: Crude Protein 20.0%, Crude Oils & Fats 4.5%, Crude Fibre 8.5%, Crude Ash 17.5%, Sodium 0.95%, Omega 3 Fatty Acids 0.5%, Omega 6 Fatty Acids 1.8%. Nutritional Additives; Vitamin A/E672 325,000iu/kg, Vitamin D/E671 40,000iu/kg, Vitamin E/3a700 1,000mg/kg, Vitamin C/E300 100mg/kg, Ferrous sulphate monohydrate/E1 3,500mg/kg, Calcium iodate hexahydrate/E2 11.8mg/kg, Cupric sulphate pentahydrate/E4 4,000mg/kg, Cupric chelate of glycine hydrate/E4 210mg/kg, Manganous oxide/E5 2,100mg/kg, Zinc oxide/E6 4,80mg/kg, Zinc chelate of glycine hydrate/E6 190mg/kg, Sodium selenite/E8 33mg/kg, Selenium enriched yeast/3b8.10 450mg/kg, L-lysine 1g/kg. Zootechnical Additives; Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae NCYC Sc47/4b1702) 2.5 x 10¹¹ cfu/kg.

 

[I'm Dun]

I wouldnt waste my money. The spec isnt great, assuming that you dont feed a couple of kgs a day.

What extras are you adding to the PE one?

 

[awelshandawarmblood]

Currently both are on Dengine Hi Fi Molasses free & Spiller Speedy Fibre mash just as a carrier, the wont eat the powder without the mash & wont eat the mash without the chaff!

Extras they both have are PE mag ox, protexin gut balancer, salt & think mud (think mud only over winter). Older horse also has glucosamine.

They also both have a liquid breathing supplement.

I did have them on PE Pro Hoof with just the mash & chaff, but they ended up wasting most of it whatever I did, hence going down the road of adding things bit by bit myself.

 

[gregory123]

I feed the calming version, it lasts well for a big ID boy and he looks fab on it. I feed it with healthy herbal chaff nothing else as he doesn’t need calories. He is quite fussy and loves this combo too! Would recommend.

 

[I'm Dun]

Currently both are on Dengine Hi Fi Molasses free & Spiller Speedy Fibre mash just as a carrier, the wont eat the powder without the mash & wont eat the mash without the chaff!

Extras they both have are PE mag ox, protexin gut balancer, salt & think mud (think mud only over winter). Older horse also has glucosamine.

They also both have a liquid breathing supplement.

I did have them on PE Pro Hoof with just the mash & chaff, but they ended up wasting most of it whatever I did, hence going down the road of adding things bit by bit myself.

Your doubling uo and feeding some things not necessary. Drop the think mud, the PE and protexin has this covered gut wise and the only other addition is zinc and MSM. The zinc will mess with the ratios in the PE, and MSM is very cheap bought on its own. You can get it from ebay. Its tasteless so generally they dont object

Whats the thought process behind the mag ox?

Glucosamine is entirely personal preference. Might be worth reading up on and and seeing how you feel.

Whats in the breathing supplement?

The issue with feeding minerals is that they do taste bad which means you have to feed something to hide it. I use pink mash or sugar beet, add them before the water to soak then mix it in. They still need some alfaa or similar or they get fussy!

 

[I'm Dun]

The best pelleted supplement is spillers lite, so you could drop the PE and feed that, then just add the protexin and msm on top. Would be worth checking the ingredients first, I've not looked for ages so cant remember if they have gut support or MSM already added

 

[SO1]

My native veteran is on the blue chip native. It is pellets and I mix it with water no problem with palatabilty and it does not make him fizzy.