Description
Topspec Lite Feed Balancer is designed for horses and ponies that are good-doers. It is ideal for horses that are overweight when fed as part of a calorie-controlled diet. These are the horses and ponies for whom every single calorie counts, and we do not believe you will find a lower calorie feed balancer anywhere. Lite Feed Balancer is a ‘Non-Heating’, cereal-grain-free formula with low levels of starch and sugar.
Designed For:
- Good-doers
- Horses and ponies in light to medium work
- Horses and ponies that have recovered from laminitis providing they are not obese
Features:
- Maintain muscle function
- Maintain excellent health
- Improving hoof quality
- Promoting a supple skin and shiny coat
- Palatable
- An expertly-balanced broad-spectrum supplement
- Improves quality of new hoof growth
- Maintains a healthy hindgut environment
- ‘Non-Heating,’ as it is very low in sugar/starch and high in fibre
Lite Feed Balancer is available in 15kg sacks, which last a 500kg horse for 30 days or a 250kg pony for 60 days.
How much to feed?
Comprehensive Feed Balancer is available in 20kg sacks, which last a 500kg horse for 40 days or a 250kg pony for 80 days
Quantities to be fed
Most TopSpec Feed Balancers should be fed at a rate of 100g balancer/100kg bodyweight daily. The following table will help you to decide how much to feed to your horses or ponies. (As a guide a half-pint mug holds approximately 200g of any TopSpec Feed Balancer). Please refer to the sack or to TopSpec’s Multiple Award Winning Helpline for feeding rates of TopSpec Stud Feed Balancer and TopSpec Racing Feed Balancer as they are fed at higher rates.
Horse/Pony Weight (kgs) |
Typical Height |
Type |
Recommended Daily Rate |
250 |
10-12hh Small pony |
Shetland, Dartmoor, Welsh Sec A |
250g |
375 |
12.2-14.2hh Pony |
Connemara, New Forest, Fell, Welsh Sec B & C, Show Hunter Pony |
375g |
500 |
15-16hh Horse |
Thoroughbred, Thoroughbred X, Arab, Arab X, Welsh Cob, Connemare X, Eventer |
500g |
625 |
16.2-17.2hh Large horse |
Thoroughbred X, Warmblood, Sportshorse |
625g |
Important points
- As with all new feeds TopSpec products should always be introduced gradually over a period of four days, starting with approximately one quarter of the amount you intend to feed by day four. TopSpec feed balancers can be fed with forage alone or with your choice of straights/blends and/or compound feeds
- The diet of sweating horses must be supplemented with additional salt, especially if feed intake is low. All horses should have access to a salt-lick 24/7 but common table salt should be added to the feed of sweating horses daily
- Keep an eye on the horse’s condition as feeding TopSpec Feed Balancers with other hard feeds means over a period of 4-6 weeks you may need to reduce the other hard feed
- In most cases do not add feed supplements within TopSpec Feed Balancers. Additives e.g. TopSpec Calmer, TopSpec 10:10 Joint Support, TopSpec Electrolytes can be added if required
- We are frequently asked if garlic can be fed with TopSpec, the answer is yes, for any herb
Lite Feed Balancer is available in 15kg sacks, which last a 500kg horse for 30 days or a 250kg pony for 60 days.
Analytical Constituents
Typical Nutritional analysis (%) ‘as fed’
Digestible Energy | 9.1MJ/kg |
Protein | 15.0 |
Oil | 4.0 |
Fibre | 19.0 |
Starch | 6.5 |
Calcium | 2.2 |
Magnesium | 0.6 |
Vitamin E (iu/kg) | 1,000 |
Biotin mg/kg | 30.0 |
Composition
The typical ingredients in TopSpec Lite Feed Balancer are high-fibre oat by-product, soya bean meal (GM), grass, unmolassed beet pulp, wheatfeed, linseed expeller, soya hulls (GM), vitamin and mineral premix, molasses, soya oil (GM), yeast.
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Product Features
- Feed Type: Balancer
- Feed Weight: 15kg
- Weight: 15000g
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