Milk Pellets - anyone else remember them ??

[Shysmum]

I was thinking about this last night, probably cos I was too hot, and my brain curdled - good old milk pellets, whatever happened to them ?? i suspect they are totally dietarily (is that a word?) incorrect, but omg, they were good for putting weight on my TB all those years ago.

Showing my age (again)

 

[rhino]

I think Spillers still has a milk pellet product - Equivite Body Builder

 

[Shysmum]

Really ?? Well I'm blowed !! So they have just renamed them, and I'm NOT that ancient ? HURRAH !!

 

[cefyl]

Oh how I loved the smell of milk pellets, and the powder

 

[rhino]

This is the Spillers one
http://www.triequestrian.ie/tri-equ...omla/1832-equivite-body-builder.html?sef=hcfp

I've never used a milk supplement for horses but imagine it would smell like the lamlac milk replacer for lambs/kids? If so I hate the smell!

 

[Shysmum]

mmmm they did smell fab if I remember rightly. Such a good weight padder, I'm not surprised they are still around.

 

[Patterdale]

Yes I remember! Can't believe they don't still do them!

 

[frozzy]

I remember them well ! My daughter (35 this year) used to sneak into the feed room and wander out with chubby cheeks bulging!!! She was 3 at the time.

 

[Janesomerset]

I remember buying these in 1990 when we had a youngster...he wouldn't touch them...

 

[mrhsaddler]

I used milk pellets for my youngster over winter - very expensive

 

[Double_choc_lab]

I remember using milk pellets in the 70s and 80s - loved the smell. Also used to feed the occasional half a pint of guiness as well. i think that was around the time that wormers used to come in screw top tins (Equizole???)

 

[Shysmum]

lol

 

[asommerville]

You can still get them. i nearly got my youngster them

 

[lannerch]

I used to love eating them they were as good as they looked . Funnily enough saw some in the shop on display at our local wynstay last week

 

[sallyg]

I had some for feeding up my skinny TB when I was a teenager but my mum refused to buy anymore after one of our labs got in the feed room and ate them, she was so bloated she literally looked like a barrel but fortunately didn't come to any harm.

 

[Goldenstar]

Oh how I loved the smell of milk pellets, and the powder

They had a fab smell

 

[hobo]

I fed them to my baby horse in 1981. I also gave my mare a guiness once a week when she was in foal! So yes I'm old.

 

[Doncella]

I used to love eating them they were as good as they looked . Funnily enough saw some in the shop on display at our local wynstay last week

Me too! That was a long time ago. Are Pat and Pickles still in Pony Magazine?

 

[chestnutmarelover]

I remember using them years ago to put weight on a youngster that didn't need extra energy, i'm sure they were cattle ones I bought from local feed store.......Probably half the price of horse ones too

 

[rara007]

My sister feeds them to her 2YO.
I tried to feed my 4YO them and he didn't like them