Simple Systems

I have used their lucene nuts a few times, but they tended to heat my mare up. There is a guy on my yard who uses their feed and his horse is very over weight and a bit of a fruit loop and when his previous owner had him he was quite normal. His horse is a warmblood.
 
I was feeding mine on SS, but recently she stopped eating it all as the feeds were quite big! She was hunting on it, and looked very well, but it was a waste when I kept throwing feeds away!

I have got them on Blue Chip now.
 
I event mine both off purabeet, linseed and lucinuts. I stuggle a bit with one of the boys weight but spoke to SS for their advice. I have upped his feed and he seems to be better now. However, with the one I am feeding up, I have to ensure he has some linseed in the feed otherwise he wont finish it.
 
I feed both a highly strung thoroughbred, and his total opposite, a lazy cob on it and they both do very well off their vaious types of feed. The low sugar / starch that it has naturally is great for both types and helps with stamina without the fizz

I swear by it (as you may find with me reccommending it a lot!!) and would never feed my horses any other way now!

Edited to add....the TB is now retired so I have him on Lucinuts and purabeet adding in seaweed and a little linseed, but if he was still eventing he would be on grass nuts for some extra oomph

The Cob is on a small amount of luci nuts and purabeet daily with Linseed & seaweed....but when competing I feed him more, and if competing over a few days I add blue grass nuts for some extra sparkle. I don't feed him grass nuts regularly as he has a sugar intolerance so he needs to 'use it' to be fed it...
 
I use to compete off it - really, really like it and has really turned my mare around. However we aren't able to get it any more without huge, huge haulage bills so are feeding on the same principles but feed we can actually source.
 
I really like it and my boy is doing really well on it
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I feed green gold, just grass, and linseed to our clydesdale and gypsy cob.

Both do very well - they are still growing and are an ideal weight on it.

My cob competes showing and dressage - has plenty of energy and sparkle. If I want a bit more omph I add speedibeet which they get in winter as a matter of course.
 
I feed it to all three of mine - a retired TB mare, a rising 4yo TBx and an ex-racer. They all do really well on it. I used to do fun rides on my mare and have done dressage competitions on my ex-racer, but am not really competitive so can't really comment on that. But it certainly suits them and saves me on feed bills!!
 
On my yard of 14 horses all but 4 are on Simple Systems feeds. We have a variety of types, 2 straight TB's, 3WB x TBs, 1 WB, 1xTBX, 2 ponies 1xcob. All do really well on it, calm, sane and good condition. We event, showjumps, hack etc on it with great success. All the horses eat it up, I have never had a problem getting any horse to eat it and price wise it works out far cheaper than most other makes of feed.
 
I think it's a great feeding concept, but it won't suit a VERY poor doer..... without loads of oil etc for calories. And cost wise I find Dengie alf alfa pellets, own brand grass nuts and speedi beet are cheaper.

I do really believe in their feeding program though, and competition wise I beleive there was a 4* eventer who went round Burghley on just Simple Systems
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I don't agree, one of my liveries - a 13 year old ex racer is a very poor doer. He had no muscle and no body fat. All his bones showed. He was on a diet recommended by the vet and had been for 2 years which included a well known feed balancer, barley rings and a well known pasture mix. We put him on to a purely simple system diet last Autumn. He is on Luci nuts, red nuts, pura beet, linseed and brewers yeast and for the first time ever he has put on weight, his saddle has been widened, he has started to get a top line and quarters. His ribs are slowly covering over. He has a hell of a shine to his coat and his eye has softened. 6 months ago he looked like a rescue case, now he has turned a corner and hopefully going into spring we will get a huge weight increase which the SImple Systems will maintain over winter
 
I tried SS a few winters ago as thought sounded ideal for my horse who is prone to weight loss,is very fussy & a bit of a hot head.
The only thing that concerned me was the huge amount he would have to eat(has a v small appetite). I decided to give it a bash but ended up throwing it all away as he didn't seem to like it & could never get him to eat any more than about a 20th of what he was supposed to have! Expensive experiment but i had heard very good things about it so thought worth a try but wasn't to be!
 
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I think it's a great feeding concept, but it won't suit a VERY poor doer..... without loads of oil etc for calories. And cost wise I find Dengie alf alfa pellets, own brand grass nuts and speedi beet are cheaper.

I do really believe in their feeding program though, and competition wise I beleive there was a 4* eventer who went round Burghley on just Simple Systems
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I also had problems with SS feeds & a poor doer, we did fine for the first year but then the second year he got quite poor. I did try everything but it just didnt suit at all. I did find it expensive & took a lot of storage space. Also it took time to do as i had to soak most things.

I also like the concept however ive fed Fibre diets for years, i think there's loads of options now from most feed companys as they have become aware we want low starch ,high fibre feeds. Oh & Mollasses free.
 
Not sure where you are in Essex, but if you are not far from Epping/Waltham Abbey, Yates Farm supply it so you can just go and buy a bag of what you want rather than having to get a big order delivered.

If you go the brewer yeast and linseed route, Charnwood Milling sell 25k bags of the stuff at far less of the cost of the SS version - I have checked out the analysis of both and there is little difference and mine do just as well on the Charnwood version.
 
Echo the Charnwood Milling, the cost variation is huge, and their products are excellent, I use the BY too. About £38 (don't quote me!) for 25kg.
 
I tried SS on my anglo when I got him about 2.5 yrs ago. He was in very poor condition, but anything "conditoning" turned him into a lunatic.

He was fine on SS for about 3 weeks and then he just played with his rather large feeds rather than eating anything. One day he decided to paint the walls of his stable green.

I ended up having to throw out 3 bags of lucerne cakes and just fed the grass nuts in his nut ball and the purabeet mixed with hi-fi lite and fibre cubes, switching that to speedi-beet when it was finished. And it did take up a lot of storage space and also time to soak everything.

The linseed is good but agree it is very expensive and you can buy it cheaper elsewhere.

There are lots of alternatives now, I agree the principle is correct but I think it either suits or it doesnt.
 
all mine are SS. not had any problems with any of them turning into fruit loops and they are all in good condition. one of them (my WB) has a wheat allergy and was the main reason they all got changed over onto SS.
mine have a mixture of red and blue bag grass nuts and lucie bix and it works out much cheaper than other feeds, plus its great for my laminitc pony. My big WB you ISH have extra linseed. I get it from my local SS agent, did look at Charnwoods but what with P&P its not much different for me.
 
i started feeding it just b4 xmas to my welsh sec d mare used for endurance, she has come out of winter looking better than ever much less itchy too am feeding lucie nuts lucie bix and red bag nuts also the total eclipse and linseed i do still supplement with a joint supplement though
 
The SS linseed was over £40 last time I priced it, plus delivery, that is for 20 (not 25)kg

Charnwood is £30 delivered for 25kg, so an extra 5 kg for what ?£15 less with the delivery from SS to add on to the £40.

No comparison in my view
 
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