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Hello everyone,

I have been having trouble getting any information about the ingredients in the new Frickers Feeds range.
I have a few friends who have been trialling it and are amazed at the results in their horses condition and their general behaviour.

Can anyone give me anymore information on it? And how much would you suggest i feed as part of a trial and which feed out of the range?

I have a 15.2hh 9yrs old poor doer trotter who is in light work over winter, he is currently about 420kg but goes up to 450kg in the summer when the grass is through and he's in medium to slightly heavy work. He is very fizzy!

I have a 15.1hh 4.5 yr old Welsh D mare - 560kg (looking very good just now) good doer, she is on hard feed at the moment as she is in more work than the trotter but she gets quite fizzy and ha a very marey attitude.

last but not least I have a rising 2 yr old Warmblood who is growing like a weed and im having to feed quite a lot of hard feed to to keep his condition. Hes standing at about 15hh just now but continually growing!

Thank you in advance Hopefully one of you out there has had more luck than me finding some information.
 
I compared it to top spec and you have to feed nearly twice the amount of the balancer for the same result making it not cost effective (300g a day). It worked out about a kilo of hard feed for my 14h2 to maintain condition. Didn't really rate it :(
 
I would love to find a complete feed that works as i'm feeding so much at the moment and there must be a more cost effective way of doing it thats better for the horses.
I currently feed Fast Fibre, Barley, Stud Mix for the 2yr old and Pasture mix for the others and soya meal. Its a huge bucket of feed in total
 
How much soya do you feed Britestar? I give the poor doers one cup a day at the moment. Can you go higher?
The Trotter doesnt like sugar beet hence switching to the fast fibre but he would probably eat alfa a instead is thats better for him?
 
It seems to be the latest craze and after eventually finding the ingrediants list which the company does not publish on their website, i googled all the ingredients and wasnt very impressed! It contains cereals, mollasses and zoo-ological additives ( on a par with beef bulking feed ie 'beef nuts' to do with the uptake of nutrients)
I have found grass nuts, linseed, speedibeet and grass chaff, with a broadspectrum mineral does all my five well, in varying quanities depending on size workload etc.
 
Frickers balancer is I believe a low cal balancer and would not do the same job as Top Spec comprehensive for instance , we have had feed off them since the 1990's so they have been trading at least 20years not a 'new craze' They do a full range of feed nuts and coarse mix I believe their nuts are produced at the same mill responsible for Top Spec and the coarse mixes milled at their own mill. They are a family run business and Peter Fricker himself would be the best person to speak too .We have a very difficult horse on their Tiny Tots and it transformed him I believe a comparable nut to the tiny tots is a red mills one .We have tested the Tiny Tots cube ourselves as my partner is in the agricultural feed business and the results where less than 4% starch & sugar .
Their website is a bit out of date and from what I was told when Peter delivered our last order they are looking at updating their info on the bags . What Frickers don't have at all is a marketing budget so they will never have a flashy blind you with science website or bags which when you actually look into tell you very little just try and blind the less experience with the technical language used.
 
Yeah this is made locally I believe (I recognise the venue in your profile pic!). I think it is simply a "craze" right now. I'm quite sad and enjoy researching feed, I really like Allen & Page feeds which is what I'm feeding (Calm & Condition and Fast Fibre). Fast fibre was one of the lowest starch feeds I could find, and the Calm & Condition doesn't contain barley which can heat up a lot of horses.

I guess if you want to try it then do so and see what happens. As with anything, some feeds suit certain horses.
 
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I've fed it to my current horse and last horse.

I feed a 16hh WB mare , 1/2 a small scoop . I stated on 1 scoop 2x a day and had to keep cutting it back as getting fat.

I must admit she looks amazing

I've gone from spending £50 a month on feed to 1 sack at £12.50 lasting me 2 months

This horse is in full work. 6 days a week, full clipped and lives in at night. No hay in field in day time but ad lib hay at nights.

I'm delighted if I'm honest. She seems to love it too, cleans her bucket. I'm happy and she appears happy.

I should of said that's the tiny tots I use.
 
They say start all horses on 1/2 Stubbs scoop 2 x a day give it a couple if weeks then work from there , either increasing or decreasing.

Call there free phone number and you will get all the info, that would be more accurate than people guessing on a forum, they are a helpful bunch

0800 1707064

Hope that helps :-)
 
Whatever you choose to feed, I'd ditch the pasture mix.... Awful stuff! And once the warmblood hits 2 ditch the stud mix too, after two their nutritional requirements are the same as an adult horse in terms of vitamins and minerals.

Personally, I'd go for linseed meal over soya, a fibre base (I like ultra grass or fast fibre), and some speedie beet, a tub of vitamin and mineral supplement that they can all have, and any additional energy requirements met with oats as and when needed.
 
MagicMelon said:
Yeah this is made locally I believe (I recognise the venue in your profile pic!). I think it is simply a "craze" right now. I'm quite sad and enjoy researching feed, I really like Allen & Page feeds which is what I'm feeding (Calm & Condition and Fast Fibre). Fast fibre was one of the lowest starch feeds I could find, and the Calm & Condition doesn't contain barley which can heat up a lot of horses.




I guess if you want to try it then do so and see what happens. As with anything, some feeds suit certain

Frickers feeds are based near Caerwys , Mold , North Wales .
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If Speedibeet is not an option as a fibre base, then maybe try Lucie Fibre Cubes or similar as a low-sugar fibre base for the mineral supplement. I mix those with Speedibeet for the Spooky Pony and friends, but they'd be fine on their own too. I add a bit of linseed and for weight gain/flavour, Coolstance Copra, which they all seem to like. It's really high in oil and protein, and I have a hunch the Ginger Trotter might find it attractive...I can give you a little to try out, if that would be of interest?
 
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