Feeding Blue Chip to horse who is not good on starch

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Hi,

I'm planning to introduce Blue Chip Origional balancer to my horse's diet and emailed the BC nutritionalist about it first.

She told me that the starch content is 30% and sugar content 6%, but because it is nutrient dense and fed in small quantities, the starch doesn't eqaute to much.

My horse is not clinicly intollerent to starch, it just seems to bring out the worst in her.

She is a very chilled out horse and is really un flappable, but when she was on a feed mix containing a total of 16% starch she turned into a monster! She became very silly to handle and when ridden, so we took her off this feed and changed to Alfa A Oil, SpeediBeet and a GP supplement and she improved dramatically.

Has anyone had any experiences of feeding Blue Chip to horses who react badly to starch? Or can anyone recommend a *very* similar balancer with minimal starch?

Thank you
 
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What are you wanting the balancer to provide over and above the GP supplement that you were using? There are loads of different balancers with varying ingredients, and starch levels, but need to know what is important to you about the Blue Chip.
 
I'm feeding it to help her gain, and maintain, condition over the winter. She needs an extra something and everybody recommends Blue Chip. I've looked at the ingredience and it's got everything in it I want, bar the starch, and the nutritionalist said that the starch should not affect her.

So I was really just wondering if anyone else feeds Blue Chip to a horse who doesn't not react well to starch.

Thank you
 
I would always recommend Topspec over Bluechip. Generally I have found horses have better muscle tone and general "sheen" too them on Topspec than they have had on Bluechip...
 
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