Winergy Equilibrium Low Energy feed... your experiences?

[Empy&Treacle]

Hi All,

I am getting a new horse in a couple of weeks (4yo) and currently he is just fed on pony nuts and mollichaf. He is a good-doer and he is currently in light work being brought on. He has a very chilled out outlook on life.

I want to provide him with a balanced diet and feel that bog-standard pony nuts mightn't provide him with this balance as correctly as the likes of Equilibrium Low Energy.

The problem I have is that I do not know anyone who feeds it - hence the post. Please could you provide me with any experiences you have of it?

Many thanks

(Also posted in New Lounge)

 

[kazhar]

I tried it when it first came out...my horse is quite fussy and was not overly keen on it. its also quite expensive to feed at the reccomended rate..so if your wanting to just use that to give him all the vits and minerals required, you will be spending a fair bit...something like a balancer would prob be more cost effective. hope that helps.

 

[Empy&Treacle]

Thank you Kazhar. How much do you think it costs a month to feed it? Call me naive, but I thought it would be cheaper than a balancer if it isn't then i'll stick with the good old balancers

 

[TGM]

Personally, I would stick to the diet that he is on at the moment, if it suits him, although might be tempted to change the chaff if it is a highly molassed one.

There are no magic ingredients in the Winergy - here are the ingredients for their Low Energy feed:

Nutritionally improved straw, grass nuts, Oatfeed, dried lucerne,
molasses, sunflower ext, hipro soya, timothy, oat straw, soya oil,
di-calcium phosphate, calcium carbonate, vit and min premix, calcined
magnesite, salt, garlic, mint, vegetable oil.

Which isn't a lot different from the ingredients in Spiller's High Fibre Cubes:

Oatfeed, Wheatfeed, Nutritionally improved straw, Sunflower ext, Molasses, Calcium carbonate, Hipro soya, Vegetable oil, Salt, Vitamin mineral premix, Dicalcium phosphate

If you are feeding significantly less than the recommended amount of cubes, then you can always top up vit/mins with a vit/min supplement such as Benevit or Equivite.

 

[kazhar]

well I have a 15.3 AA. if he was on the winergy....he is supposed to have 3kg per day. from what I remember the bags are 15KG? so a bag would last me 5 days. so 6 bags per month at a tenner a pop = £60. my balancer costs £18 and lasts 40 days, a bag of grassnuts per month costs 6.50 and a half bag of speeedibeet per month costs 4.50.

so £60 per month for winergy or £24.50 per month for balancer, beet and grass nuts.

 

[TGM]

I agree, the Winergy does seem to work out very expensive, especially when you realise the ingredients aren't anything special or costly, and the bag sizes are smaller than many other commercial feeds!

 

[Empy&Treacle]

well I have a 15.3 AA. if he was on the winergy....he is supposed to have 3kg per day. from what I remember the bags are 15KG? so a bag would last me 5 days. so 6 bags per month at a tenner a pop = £60. my balancer costs £18 and lasts 40 days, a bag of grassnuts per month costs 6.50 and a half bag of speeedibeet per month costs 4.50.

so £60 per month for winergy or £24.50 per month for balancer, beet and grass nuts.

Hmm, I am so glad I posted on here to ask the question before looking in to it further - I really hadn't realised it would cost so much and last such a short time I am definitely going to stick with his current diet, but add a balancer to it - Bailey's or Top Spec which is what I used to use and mine thrived on it. I just want to give him everything he needs