Feeding Blue Chip to horse who is not good on starch

[Saxon_Jasmine]

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

 

[pip6]

Personally had very good results frm BlueChip, then found out how much cereal is in it & switched to TopSpec (I use the Lite version) as cereal free. I just don't think horses were designed to eat grains. If they are extreme competition horses, then it may be the only way to get enough starch/carbs into them, but lets be realistic, how many horses require feeding to that level? My endurance horse does very well on grass/haylage, grass nuts & TS Lite. Only the very high feeds from TS have cereals in them, even their standard balancer doesn't. Just a different perspective. I avoid advice from feed companies as at the end of the day their job is to sell you their product, even if there is a more suitable one on the market made by a rival.