Complete feed or balancer?

[RHM]

Following on from some of the other threads. Does it work out cheaper to feed a complete feed or balancer?

Red mills feed seems to be fairly reasonable and considering moving away from straights and balancer.

 

[maya2008]

You have to feed the recommended amount of complete feed in order to get all the vits/mins. Great if you have a poor doer, awful if you have a good doer! My TB did fine on a complete feed as she needed the full amount, but it's always been more practical to give the ponies a bit of beet/chaff and a vitamin/mineral powder. I like the NAF one, but the Codlivine tub does give a good shine to the coat!

 

[Griffin]

I agree with @maya2008 complete feeds have to fed in the recommended amounts (which I find a lot of people don't do, they just give a scoop which could be too much or not enough).

Personally, I tend to stick with a balancer and chaff because I have a very good doer and I find it easier to feed the correct amount of balancer.