Spillers Balancers

[TPO]

Thought I'd start a new thread instead of hijacking the current one.

Are the spoilers balancers "any good"? By that I mean how do their ingredients and nutritional aspects measure up against balancers like equimmins, pro earth, forage plus et al?

I am absolutely hopeless at knowing what quantities horses need of certain vit/mins and have heavily relied on other forumites who have done all the working out and spreadsheeting ?

I've seen spillers balancers recommended quite a lot on here and they are certainly more economical than some other powdered balancers.

The website lists the ingredients and it does appear that there are a lot of fillers in them.

Where/how do you find out the bench mark for a horse's RDA to compare the spillers nutritional analysis to it?

 

[ester]

NRC guidelines is what is usually used for RDA. Albeit you then have the complication of forage/other feed. The spillers not containing iron makes me think they have at least paid some attention though

 

[Littlewills]

Spillers is the best of the well known feed brands. I always steer people towards it if they wont consider mineral balancers like PE and equimins etc

 

[Scarlett]

I did a comparison before starting using Lite and Lean over a year ago now, and it was pretty good. No added iron or potassium, which suits our grazing, and decent levels of everything else. Horses have done well on it.

 

[dreamcometrue]

I had a good look at all the low sugar balances and decided on Spillers Lite and Lean. It has no added iron and the best balance of vitamins and minerals for my ems pony.