General consensus on Baileys feed?

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The small yard where I have my rising 2yo is thinking about switching to Baileys as the yard standard. It is going to be expensive as we are in France, so everything will need to be ordered in bulk and imported.

I read the pamphlet, and tbh I'm really not that impressed. There is a lot of wheatfeed/oatfeed and soya and EVERY mix has molasses in it - even the yearling/prep mix.

My "baby" does have a tendancy to show event lines in his feet quite easily, and as a consequence I would prefer to keep him as cereal/sugar free as possible.

Proprietary youngstock feed in France is absolutely extortionate (one brand I saw was 50€ for a 20kg bag, and you were meant to feed upto 3L (2 stubbs scoops) a day!)
 
I have been feeding Baileys Feeds for a number of years.

Anything from yearlings to Veterans, competition horses to brood mares and never had a problem.

I find the service very good and the staff very helpful. I recently had a pony (24 years old) diagnosed with Cushings and asked them about changing her feed from the Senior Mix. They advised using the Lo Cal Balancer and if she started to loose weight to add the Conditioning Cubes. She is still just on the Balancer with some Alfa Oil and Speedi beet.

They provide the food for many top British Teams.
 
I've always been pleased when my horses have been on them; they do what it says on the bag.
Their stud nuts are the only thing that will put weight on my TB mare after weaning and I've tried everything from straights to other suppliers.

You should find that either their stud balancer or their Lo Cal balancer should suit your youngster very well without piling on the calories as you don't need to feed a lot of it so a bag might last you nearly a month (not sure how big yours is) You can either feed it alone or with a chaff/sugar beet.
 
I used to use the lo-cal balancer on my TB and it is AMAZING. It transformed him from a weed into a beauty and it's very low in starch and sugar. The weatfeed amount is just a binding agent to make it into the little pellets, it's not enough to have any adverse effects. I only stopped feeding it because I felt he didn't need it anymore and it's quite expensive and i'm stingy so moved him onto a powder supplement instead. I had no issues with it whatsoever though, it's a fantastic product. I fed it just with a light chaff and it was enough to keep my TB oin fabulous condition all winter and he was competing most weekends.
 
Wouldn't pay good money for Baileys feeds. As you say, they are full of crap, and they don't publish their sugar and starch content - wonder why!

I also don't like their attitude as a company - it's almost as bad as their feeds.
 
Bailey's have always been excellent and both mine have lo-cal balancer as their only hard feed (TB and ISH)

Why is your YO importing feed? You say it's going to be really expensive but when I was in Belgium (20+ years), we only ever fed straights as were able to source good quality grain including such things as spelt really easily. Horses were foals to aged and all were fine whether leisure or competition horses.
 
Have used Lo Cal on various horses for years with excellent results. Periodically try another product but notice a difference in coat and feet so always return to Bailey's.
 
No mixed feed or commerical premix can be a precise as a man with common sense.

They should get their hay analized and then top up what is missing. The major part of a horse diet has to be hay anyway.
 
That is true, but there is still hope and I like the idea about common sense.

Also in this forum here there is a lot of critical (interested) voices. So may be the seed will grow.
 
We wouldn't touch with a barge pole, which being in Essex is hard as every stockist seems to prefer it! Spillers for us, tried others and always ended up with problems.

I think its armas who gets one of the horse transporters to take out Allan & page to France?
 
Crap crap crap. Overpriced rubbish bulked out with loads of fillers. The feed rep that covers my area is an absolute egg. The things i was advised to feed my lot would've had one in the grave with lami and the other with OCD.
In a nutshell, its up there with the likes of mollichop on the list of barge pole feeds.
 
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Crap crap crap. Overpriced rubbish bulked out with loads of fillers. The feed rep that covers my area is an absolute egg. The things i was advised to feed my lot would've had one in the grave with lami and the other with OCD.
In a nutshell, its up there with the likes of mollichop on the list of barge pole feeds.
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^^^^^ that! Equine equivalent of fast food. The reps I have spoken too have been useless, too. Avoid.
 
I have used very sucessfully in the past, and the advise given has been very helpful.

Horse is currently on a dose of outshine, which has given a lovely nice shiney coat.
 
The game was easier if the people where not looking for nice advertising and famous styled bags but for the contend and ingredients.

IN the end of the day there is only very few things that matters. Feed as clos to the nature as possible and for this figure out what the nature of the animal is.

You will end up with plenty of healthy forage, if you need a fiber source in top beetpulp, as little as possible starch and here the best source ever is oats, a bit of fat and if needed soybean meal for to top up protein if there is a need for.

If you do this you have the control about quality and supply.

The rest is all about a balancer that fits, and a balancer has to be plain, a pure concentrate without and extras like protein fiber and what ever.

A balancer has to balance and not to feed. The rest is only window dressing.
 
I feed Baileys feeds having tried my mare on a number of different feeds over the years and for her it is the only one that she seems to cope with. I have her on the Ultra Grass and Number 2. My old boy is on the number 15 & ULtra Grass and both seem have come through this winter very well. Personally I think it is a mater of which feed suits your horse. With my unpredictable mare Number 2 seems to be the only food that does not send her off her head she is TB/ID about 16.3hh and a bit of a stress head. My young chunky is on Ultra grass and a handful of Number 2 nuts
 
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