Description
TopSpec Stud feed Balancer is designed to meet the nutritional needs of broodmares, stallions and growing youngstock. A low starch, nutrient dense formula to support fertility, pregnancy, lactation and correct growth.
Designed For:
- Broodmares.
- Stallions.
- Youngstock.
- Sales Preparation.
- Breeze-Up.
Features:
- A fully comprehensive range of the micronutrients and functional ingredients needed to support pregnancy, lactation and growth
- Supports sperm health and conception rates
- Aids muscle and skeletal growth, development and function and can help prevent overtopping when fed with only forage
- Improves hoof quality
- Promotes coat condition
- Supports bone and cartilage development. Very low in starch to help limit post-prandial glycaemic response
- Maintains healthy joints
- Maintains colostrum quality
- Supports immune system
- Aids a healthy microbial balance in the hind-gut
- maintain appetite
This all means that breeding stock can receive optimum nutrition from reduced levels of hard feed, with many resulting benefits.
How much to feed?
Designed to be fed with an appropriate TopSpec Blend (cubes/flakes)or oats, when extra calories/energy are required.
Mares: 750g-1.2kg per 500kg horse/day.
Stallions: 750g-1kg per 500kg horse/day.
Youngstock: 100g-1.2kg per 500kg estimated mature weight horse/day.
Can be fed with any TopSpec Blend e.g.
- CoolCondition Cubes – for pregnant/lactating broodmares, stallions and youngstock.
- Super Conditioning Flakes – for sales preparation, fussy feeders, mares in late gestation and horses prone to weight loss.
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
Analytical Constituents
Typical Nutritional analysis (%) ‘as fed’
Digestible Energy | 12.5MJ/kg |
Protein | 27.0 |
Oil | 6.0 |
Fibre | 7.0 |
Starch | 8.0 |
Vitamin A (iu/kg) | 60,000 |
Vitamin D3 (iu/kg) | 6,000 |
Vitamin E (iu/kg) | 1,500 |
Calcium | 3.4 |
Phosphoros | 1.4 |
Copper (mg/kg) | 210 |
Selenium (mg/kg) | 2.5 |
Composition
The typical ingredients in TopSpec Stud Feed Balancer are soya bean meal (GM), wheatfeed, vitamin and mineral premix, linseed expeller, full fat soya (GM), grass, molasses, high fibre oat by-product, soya oil (GM), yeast, lysine, MOS, methionine.
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Standard Delivery via Parcelforce
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Product Features
- Feed Type: Balancer, Stud
- Feed Weight: 20kg
- Weight: 20000g
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