Feed advice please!

[Cheekycob2]

I have recently purchased a 15.2 cob good doer currently only on grass and quality hay, however i would like to add a vitamin and mineral feed into her diet as her hooves are starting to crack, and i would like to give her coat a nice shine.
I would like something thats good quality i dont really want to be filling her with sugar and unnecessary things. I also dont really want her to gain weight.
Am looking at balancers and chaff, was thinking blue chip but have been reading negative reviews so unsure. Should i go with spillers lite balancer and some happy hoof? Or should i go for another balancer like dodson and horrell etc.
Ive tried googling to compare ingredients but it seems to be a minefield, so was looking for some recommendations on what people have used that has worked and not made your horse fizzy etc. thankyou!

 

[Lady Jane]

I'm in your position and would go for Science Supplements Wellhorse Leisure (contains recommended Biotin level and the recommended amounts of 'other stuff') mixed in Dengie Hi-Fi lite (low sugar/starch). If you use a powder balancer you are unlikely to be feeding too much sugar (think about the actual quantity you need to feed). Anything that needs cups or Stubbs scoops quantities per day will almost always be more 'fattening' (if you feed under the recommended amount you are defeating the object of a balancer). I think you will get lots of opinions here!

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

Thing is I find the good powdered balancers don't taste good my 2 just won't eat them in the recommend amount so I now feed the spillers daily balancer and they love that.

They have been fine on it no silly behaviour.

 

[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

I would geta a fibre mash and a pelleted balancer. Powder ones taste naff so you have to feed more feed to get them to eat it I find, and the ones that are actual feeds will need too much of it feeding for a cob that may be prone to getting porky.

Something like one of these: https://rowenbarbary.co.uk/readyfibre-mash.html or https://www.allenandpage.com/product/fast-fibre/ - low digestible energy, low sugar, low starch so unlikely to make them hot or fat, and a balancer mug of it makes a decent enough feed to put a balancer in (it's what Dex has and he's a 17.1hh ID)

Pelleted balancer, 1 bag lasts a month or so: https://bluechipfeed.com/products/s...play&utm_source=Google&selling_plan=933757030

 

[Follysmum]

Have been using progressive earth balancer for 4 mths on a horse that had pulled his shoe off and made a complete mess. Farrier was amazed how well his feet have recovered they look amazing

 

[JenJ]

I have recently purchased a 15.2 cob good doer currently only on grass and quality hay, however i would like to add a vitamin and mineral feed into her diet as her hooves are starting to crack, and i would like to give her coat a nice shine.
I would like something thats good quality i dont really want to be filling her with sugar and unnecessary things. I also dont really want her to gain weight.
Am looking at balancers and chaff, was thinking blue chip but have been reading negative reviews so unsure. Should i go with spillers lite balancer and some happy hoof? Or should i go for another balancer like dodson and horrell etc.
Ive tried googling to compare ingredients but it seems to be a minefield, so was looking for some recommendations on what people have used that has worked and not made your horse fizzy etc. thankyou!

Equimins Advance Complete Pellets - can be fed by hand, or mixed in with chaff/speedibeet etc

 

[motherof2beasts!]

Personally I love thunderbrooks, I feed healthy herbal chaff , with daily essentials balancer and also use their skin and respiration supplement and marigold and cleavers. Cobs are surprisingly sensitive , I’d steer clear of molasses, alfalfa and garlic.

 

[PoppyAnderson]

Equimins, Thunderbrooks or Pro Earth.