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I like to treat my ponies as laminitics wondering since the above comes in way under the 10% sugar and starch rating wether anyone had any good experience of it?

We have A LOT of grass here so mine are both restricted already so thinking this could be a good addition Rather than the balancer that they are both on.
 
Ranyhyn said:
I like to treat my ponies as laminitics wondering since the above comes in way under the 10% sugar and starch rating wether anyone had any good experience of it?

We have A LOT of grass here so mine are both restricted already so thinking this could be a good addition Rather than the balancer that they are both on.
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I feed this to my PSSM type 1 good-doer, it's the lowest sugar/starch feed which he will eat! The 'recommended' amount for it to count at a complete feed is quite a lot though, so mine gets equimins advance complete powder with it along with his other supplements. I've tried so many other chaffs and feeds but do keep coming back to this one.
 
How much are you feeding them? Their site recommends I feed 2.5kg/day to my good doer to get the right amount of minerals in him from their feed. I think he'd explode on that.

Personally I go for a small amount of soaked grass nuts/speedibeet and mix in a good quality powder balancer - mine's forageplus, but others are available.
 
The little (11.2) just gets her recommended dosage of balancer (pellets form) she’s bang on where I want her weight wise and my daughter is riding her 4x30mins a week light work.
Maybe no need to change in that case but this is lower sugar/starch than my balancer so I was tempted!
 
I tried it a while back and it sent my mare absolutely loopy! It may have been the alfa content, or soy, who knows.

I now feed her (a good doer with history of ulcers) Pure Feeds Fibre Balance - it's a complete feed with all the right vits/mins, low sugar/starch, no alfa, no soy, added pre/pro biotics. In fact, I feed all 3 of mine with it, and they are all happy and healthy, and eat every last morsel.

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The little (11.2) just gets her recommended dosage of balancer (pellets form) she’s bang on where I want her weight wise and my daughter is riding her 4x30mins a week light work.
Maybe no need to change in that case but this is lower sugar/starch than my balancer so I was tempted!
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I think it's advertised as lower in sugar/starch per 100g or similar - unfortunately, you have to feed absolutely mahoosive feeds (over 2kg per day!) to get the right quantities of the balancer in them, the total sugar/starch would be incredible. I'd stick with the balancer and a low cal chaff, or go to something truly low cal, as in my comment above.

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It might be a lower percentage sugar and starch, but you'll have to feed a lot more so the chances are the total sugar and starch she eats will be higher. If what you're doing is working I'd stick with that.
 
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