Feed balancer for a 4yr old cob?

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My boy currently gets fed ad lib hay mixed with haylage, a hand full of alpha a oil and a handful of cool mix, supplemented with garlic and a multi vitamin.

He now has enough condition although he is still growing and I am considering putting him on a feed balancer instead of his hard feed. I believe this will give him all the v&m and prebiotics etc he needs and so in the long run will work out economical.

have other people done this? Which would you recomend?

 

[4x4]

Baileys Lo-Cal is quite good.

 

[TGM]

To be honest, if your horse is in good condition on what he gets now, then he probably doesn't need a balancer, and the general vit/min supplement that he is on now will do fine. Probiotics/prebiotics are useful if you think a horse's gut condition may be comprised in some way - ie after illness, antibiotic treatment, period of stress, high cereal/low fibre diet or just general poor condition. However, if your horse is in healthy condition on a good diet and has no recent illnesses, treatments or poor diet, then prebiotics/probiotics may make no difference at all!

You can probably cut out the cool mix and just give the Alfa A Oil and vit/min supplement - just increase the Alfa A Oil if he starts to lose condition.