Cost of Baileys lo-cal

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I use 1 bag of lo-cal a month and George looks great on it, but the last bag i bought cost £18.50 and the one I bought yesterday was £22.75
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that's quite a hike, but somewhere else I looked it was £23.50 - it's getting to the point that I can't really afford to feed it
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so I was wondering if a vit/min supplement would have the same benefits (George is only fed hi-fi and a few handfuls of baileys working horse and pony cubes)? I was specifically thinking of the Dengie leisure supplement - thanks.
 
Never questioned the price last time I bought any but when doing the sums did think it must have gone up. Agree that is quite a price increase, will be interesting to see the response. My train of thought for my horses is to drop the balancer and replace with a broadspectrum mulitpurpose vitamin along the lines of Benevit.
 
It went up a while ago from my supplier, I believe it was £18 this time last year and somewhere between then and about October it went up to £19.50. Maiden only gets two cups though so it lasts absolutely forever!
I used to feed Equivite and would still be if I could feed powdered supplements (they have a nasty habit of blowing away in the wind when I empty the food from the carrier bag into the feed bucket in the field
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- it got to the point where I was paying lots of money on a general supp and a joint supp only for them to be powdering the ground!) A good general purpose powdered supplement isn't any different to a pelleted balancer other than the obvious, one is powder and one is pelleted. Oh, and powders tend to be cheaper!
 
It was about £19 when I started to feed it in the summer. Is now about £22. It is brill stuff though, it is all my fatties get, 1 bag lasts my 2 about a month.
 
Does anyone else have their competition horses on LoCal? My dressage horse who is in moderate work (i.e. c. 40 mins a day dressage schooling and competing) gets three mugs a day, along with HiFi Lite and sugar beet. He has never looked better and has plenty of energy. But when I mentioned his feed to my trainer, she was surprised and seemed to imply that this was a feed for horses in very light work or super fat cobs!
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It's only the name
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in fact it's very, very similar to TopSpec and the like - it's just concentrated vits and mins. It's marketed for good doers as those are the types that generally should be on balancers and nothing else.
My instructor has her two medium-level dressage horses on Lo-Cal and they look great, and my out-of-work overweight beastie also looks ok on it (only ok as she's still fat, but it can't help her lose it only not to put more on!)
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I'm curently researching the pros and cons of feeding either a vit and min supplement or a balancer such as lo - cal, at the moment the choice for me is between Naf pink powder, NAF Oilvite, or the lo cal. I have looked at the dengie vits and mins supplements but i will get the same pretty much from the NAF ones for a little less money.
 
When we developed our liquid feed balancer I looked into all the other supplements to compare daily costs and contents - If you would like a copy of the information, I'm more than happy to either post it or pm it to you?
It makes for interesting reading!
Kate x
 
I feed this too, and the reason I changed from a powdered vit and mineral supplement is because the feed balancer has a significant protein content in it, which, (I may be wrong) I dont think there is in a general vit and mineral supplement. My boy only gets a weeny bit of Safe & Sound so I wanted to be sure he was getting essential proteins. Dont know if the fact that George gets pony nuts means this isnt as important a factor for you?
 
i used to feed lo-cal- not sure how much effect it had as horse was new to me so I had changed and upped all her feed. I'm now trying pink powder as peeps on here seem to recommend it, and it takes up much less room which is important as I'm limited on feed space at livery- but it does smell horrible!
 
I was toying with the idea of trying Lo Cal after finding this winter that Ultimate Balancer was costing me £30 every two weeks for 3 horses
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I now use H Bradshaws MultiVit PRO after discussing with Hs Mum the expenses.

This now lasts me a month and costs me only a few quid more.

My horses all look fabulous on it - I only feed Sugar Beet, Hi Fi Lite a small amount of pasture mix along with the liquid MultiVit Pro
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I would highly recommend trying it. It will last you 12 wks with one horse.
 
We use LoCal to add to a forage based diet of grazing and ad lib hay, wiht a token feed of HiFi
When in full work and in competition season one horse will have small amount competion mix added, that will be adjusted according to work levels, but we keep the baseline feeding constant.
All feedsuffs will have gone up or be going up.
 
All the horses at the yard where I am are on lo-cal and look great on it - from cobs in light work & youngsters to warmbloods working medium level and above, so yes I think it is suitable for competition horses. I think a lot depends on your attitude to feeding though - I prefer to feed ad lib hay and lots of fibre but little to no cereal mixes so the lo cal provides my horse wth the nutrients he needs. However, he doesn't look very competition fit in winter I don't think as he is unclipped & has a bit of a hay belly. He does have great top line & muscle though and has lots of energy for his work so his slightly unsophsticated appearance can be quite deceptive as when you see him working he looks a different horse.
 
Before my mare went out on loan i fed her Lo Cal,she still is on it.I paid £18.99 when she was first on it and the last time i got her a bag it was £23.75,the lady in the shop said all the Baileys stuff had gone up in price. My mare looks fab on it and has it all year round,she always gets comments on how shiny she is. I love the stuff and will put my new youngster on it in summer.
 
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