Suregrow

[BBP]

This seems to be the most recommended balancer on here for young stock. Any drawbacks from it? Starch and sugar levels?

Having thought a native yearling wouldn’t need much other than grass and hay, the little new guy is a bit of a rack of ribs at the moment. Obviously I don’t want to race to feed him up but I feel he needs a bit more nutritional support than the adult horses, especially as the grass isn’t amazing (we had a lot of clover out competing it this year). The adults get plain chaff and linseed and whatever supplements each needs. Little one so far hasn’t had any interest in chaff or linseed offerings.

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

You could feed the same and maybe add some sugar beet or a mash of some kind it might encourage him to eat it.

I personally would steer clear of youngstock feed and just add an all round supplement like progressive earth pro balance if you think his lacking in vitamins and minerals.

 

[milliepops]

Mine do well on suregrow. I've paused it at the mo as the grass has flushed and they were doing a bit too well but will restart later in the autumn. It has some additives that you don't generally see in other balancers like pro/prebiotics and mycosorb and extra vit E.

for me it's cost effective and convenient as they swap buckets so it suits me for them to eat the same stuff otherwise I'd put the 3yo on a normal adult balancer. My yearling will eat anything, she ate up her dam's minerals as soon as she figured out what bucket feeds were but the 3yo is a fusspot and needs topping up periodically.

 

[TPO]

When I got my horse as a 2 yr old I had the best laid plan of Pro Balance and miniscule amount of something as a carrier.

However he arrived a bag of bones and it was clear that he needed more than that.

I was fortunate that he arrived with me mid June and we had plenty of grass. The yard rules were in overnight year round so he also had ad-lib good hay. Basically he was either eating or asleep!

Long story short I fed the Spillers youngsters balancer. I think I fed it with grass nuts, chaff and linseed (all introduced gradually).

The spiller version was Gro n' Win
https://www.spillers-feeds.com/gro-n-win-stud-balancer

Work is quiet so I found my old threads about the spillers feed:

https://forums.horseandhound.co.uk/...ht-2yr-old-also-in-healthcare-feeding.668925/

https://forums.horseandhound.co.uk/threads/feeding-an-underweight-2yr-old-update.702331/

 

[BBP]

When I got my horse as a 2 yr old I had the best laid plan of Pro Balance and miniscule amount of something as a carrier.

However he arrived a bag of bones and it was clear that he needed more than that.

I was fortunate that he arrived with me mid June and we had plenty of grass. The yard rules were in overnight year round so he also had ad-lib good hay. Basically he was either eating or asleep!

Long story short I fed the Spillers youngsters balancer. I think I fed it with grass nuts, chaff and linseed (all introduced gradually).

The spiller version was Gro n' Win
https://www.spillers-feeds.com/gro-n-win-stud-balancer

Work is quiet so I found my old threads about the spillers feed:

https://forums.horseandhound.co.uk/...ht-2yr-old-also-in-healthcare-feeding.668925/

https://forums.horseandhound.co.uk/threads/feeding-an-underweight-2yr-old-update.702331/

Those are great thank you, and what a lovely horse! Mine looks a little like yours did. I’ll see what the local merchants has and then can reassess once he has picked up a bit as to if he can then go onto more what the others have.