Ergh! What's the point in a balancer if

[HBB]

Are you on FB ycbm? Both have pages and write regular posts which are quite interesting. I think what you are feeding is the way ahead, zinc, copper, salt and magnesium.

https://www.facebook.com/DRRameyDVM

https://www.facebook.com/DrDavidMarlin/

 

[ycbm]

Thanks. I would really recommend yeast, too. I got a batch the boys wouldn't eat once and one went footie within a couple of days and came right a couple of days after a new supply.

I do it cos I'm mean, I can't take credit for being clever

 

[HBB]

I do it cos I'm mean, I can't take credit for being clever

Smarty pants :biggrin3::biggrin3:

 

[Ellietotz]

The progressive earth balancer seems pretty good as it's based on UK grazing but like you say, you don't know what is deficient unless tested. I've sorted my life out now with straight feeds and all that malarkey to add it to. As I have so much of it at one scoop a day, it needs to go somewhere and I don't want it going in the bin! Some say it helps hooves a lot and some say different. Horse feeds/supplements are always a hit and miss really! I'll probably go back to my Dodson and Horrell Placid supplement and mag ox after this. Turns out the chaff I am using anyway doesn't push off balance the other stuff in the 'balancer'. Going to have copious amount of wine now!

 

[Leo Walker]

Are you on FB ycbm? Both have pages and write regular posts which are quite interesting. I think what you are feeding is the way ahead, zinc, copper, salt and magnesium.

That pretty much is the progressive earth supplement though, well apart from salt.

 

[HBB]

That pretty much is the progressive earth supplement though, well apart from salt.

No, not really, there's a huge difference with the Pro Laminae.

10 grams Magnesium (Magnesium Oxide)
5 grams Phosphorous (Monosodium Phosphate
333 mg Copper (Bioplex)
999 mg Zinc (Bioplex)
10 grams Lysine
10 grams Mycosorb A+
1g Yea-sacc TS
5g Bio Mos
1 mg Selenium (yeast)
2000 iu Vitamin E oil
3mg Iodine (Calcium Iodate)
20,000 iu Vitamin A
30 mg Biotin
3 grams Methionine
200 mg Pyridoxine (B6)
20 mg Folic Acid
100mg Hyaluronic Acid
300mg Niacin (B3)
100mg B5 (Calcium Pantothenate)
3000mg Taurine
1000mg L Tyrosine
250mg Thiamine (B1)
2000mg Acetyl – l Carnitine
2500mg Grape Seed Extract

 

[Mike007]

The point of a balancer is to balance the whole diet. Generally the horse will obtain sufficient of the least readily available nutrients if it eats enough quantity . The problem lies in the fact that in doing so ,it will probably take in too much energy and become fat.Our UK grass is not a natural feed for horses ,neither is hay or haylage.

 

[lrw0250]

Our barefoot trimmer recommended we put our pony on Pro Earth Pro Hoof when we first started using her a few years ago as her hooves were not horrendous, but not great either, with white line separation, flares and cracks. We had not given her any hard feed previously so I had to do some research into what I could feed that would not include extra vits/minerals or be too conditioning or heating (fat prone native lead rein pony!). After some trial and error she now gets:

Equus Health Winter Glow Summer Shine (basically linseed with some added garlic, fenugreek, mint and seaweed to add taste ) and she gets a small scoop in summer, 2 in winter.
Agrobs Aspero chaff - a handful
Salt
Pro Hoof
Half a stubbs scoop of soaked speedibeet in winter only
A carrot or apple chopped up for texture

Works for us as her hooves have improved hugely and she crunches over the gravel around the yard no problem - except for this summer when she broke through the electric fencing to get to the winter grazing and ended up footy but that's a different problem!