fatty-balancer of powder supp best?

I really don't think the 40g of Slim Aid my mare gets contains more calories than has been lost by the soaking of her hay. I chose this balancer because she will happily eat it without it having to be mixed with anything tasty, unlike a powder supplement.
 
tallyho! said:
Not being funny but.... why are you all feeding your fatties?

They will get everything they need just from hay and if you feel it's not enough, get a mineral lick so they can have free choice plus a helping of salt to make them drink more and stop eating so much therefore staying slim.

I get that some may need to have joint supplements but you can soak that in a cupful of low calorie beet/alfalfa. Soaking vit n min pellets to add joint/bute/cough stuff to.

It just doesn't make sense to feed fatties any form of balancer.
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It depends upon your grazing and forage and your ponies.
We have known mineral deficiencies in our grazing and forage, we have to manage their diets as our ponies are not turned out on the hundreds of acres of mountains that they are bred for, it's our choice to keep them where we do so I feel it is only fair and ethical to make their diet as good as we possibly can. (Ours get a powdered supplement which appears to help)
 
I started my horse on equine answers 365, and noticed the difference in coat shine in about a week of her starting on it.

It's cheap to!
 
Fjord said:
I really don't think the 40g of Slim Aid my mare gets contains more calories than has been lost by the soaking of her hay. I chose this balancer because she will happily eat it without it having to be mixed with anything tasty, unlike a powder supplement.
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No it doesnt and thats why I said pellets are ideal.
 
wench said:
I started my horse on equine answers 365, and noticed the difference in coat shine in about a week of her starting on it.

It's cheap to!
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I actually really rate this product. It has a higher level of essential stuff and uses high quality protein and is granular. Actually has good levels of mag chro and zinc which I think helps fatties.
 
tallyho! said:
Like I said, powders make sense but not balancers.
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Some of the products people have recommended on this thread which call themselves balancers are powders which slightly confuses the issue.

My advice would always be read the full ingredients list and ask yourself would you choose to feed the individual ingredients if they were presented to you on its own.

And on the subject, what is the complete ingredients of the lick you feed. Just curious as copper and zinc by themselves aren't very palatable.

A lick wouldn't necessarily be my first choice as you have no control over the intake.

The OP was thinking that a pellet might work as it could go in a treatball and take longer to eat so he didn't get jealous of the others which seems a fair enough thing to want to do. However in terms of ingredients the powders contain less extras than the pellets and they wouldn't work in a ball.
 
criso said:
Some of the products people have recommended on this thread which call themselves balancers are powders which slightly confuses the issue.

My advice would always be read the full ingredients list and ask yourself would you choose to feed the individual ingredients if they were presented to you on its own.

And on the subject, what is the complete ingredients of the lick you feed. Just curious as copper and zinc by themselves aren't very palatable.

A lick wouldn't necessarily be my first choice as you have no control over the intake.

The OP was thinking that a pellet might work as it could go in a treatball and take longer to eat so he didn't get jealous of the others which seems a fair enough thing to want to do. However in terms of ingredients the powders contain less extras than the pellets and they wouldn't work in a ball.
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Like.

I'd agree with criso. It is confusing and I'm also sorry for being rude. Balancers in my eyes are those bagged things and come in 20kg sacks and are usually for conditioning sports horses.

The licks I use are from Rockies: Laminshield and Five Star (expensive but keeps all our barefoot herd sound in 24/7 pasture with cows including the IR horse). They also have a cheap pure salt lick especially in spring. Our herd love these and they have one in stable for winter and then several outside for summer. My youngster is the only one who has a pelletised mineral supplement and a higher oil diet.
 
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