EMS safe paddock licks

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Hi, can anyone recommend a paddock/pasture lick safe for an EMS laminitic Shetland please - they all seems to be molasses heavy.

I’m looking for something ‘natural’ to provide vitamin and minerals.


Dallas Keith seems to come up on Google searches, has anybody tried these?
 
I got a herby one. I can't think of the brand but can check later. It was about £20 and has lasted forever as no one likes it! I imagine some horses must though or they wouldn't be made! It smells nice or did at first and I thought they would love it.
 
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I got a herby one. I can't think of the brand but can check later. It was about £20 and has lasted forever as no one likes it! I imagine some horses must though or they wouldn't be made! It smells nice or did at first and I thought they would love it.
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Thank you, I’m concerned they’ll either love it and demolish it (herd includes very fat cob who eats anything) or they won’t touch it like yours! I’d be interested to find out your brand when you get chance
 
It’s a really poor way to try to feed fits and mins as intake varies so much and is generally way too low to get any benefit anyway. Would be better to feed a pelleted balancer or a small handful of chaff with a powdered balancer
 
These things are full of molasses & sugar to make them palatable. The only lick the horses I've had like are Himalayan rock salt licks, some go mad for them but a couple wouldn't touch them.
 
Simple Systems do a field lick which is salt and magnesium and is safe for laminitics. It is the only one I’ve ever found not to be molasses based. I do think the larger supplement manufacturers are missing a niche in the market and I did ask Science Supplements if they would make one which contained all the trace elements, vitamins and minerals and they said no.
 
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Someone else on here uses the Dallas Keith ones, is it Paddy555?
Tried to get a couple of people locally to stock them with no joy, you can get them from 3rd party sellers on Ebay.
 
Be careful with the Dallas Keith tubs.

My mare had one and she loved it so much, my dentist said she was showing very early signs of tooth decay 😳! Needless to say, she no longer has access to any form of molasses bound lick!
 
The Rockys Red one does seem to last the weather more than Himalayan ones if out uncovered in the field.

The issue is that minerals taste grim - that is a fact. So anything really good for them with no added nasties is only eaten by the really greedy - then in unknow quantities so they wee it out if they eat too much.

Most won't eat enough because it tastes grim.

You have to experiment with each individual how much of something tasty (and how tasty it has to be!) to get the right amount in each day.

One of mine is a pig and eats the pelleted balances from my hand like a treat - two others think I'm trying to kill them with the same pellets

One is so picky that I have to rotate what form of horrible sugar coated rubbish I mix with his to keep him eating it. He'll pick at something, eventually eating it for say 3 weeks, then give up and I have to swap to something else. He only has a handful so I consider it OK to get the minerals in.
 
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