Preparing Your Horse for the Winter Routine
Many yards make adjustments to their daily routines when the clocks change at the end of October...
A comprehensive forage balancer with calming support, specifically developed to help settle reactive, tense or anxious horses.
- Low in sugar & starch
- Rich in B-group Vitamins
- Soothes digestive tract
Suitable For
- Natural vitamins & minerals
- Fussy eaters
- Long or short term use
Ideal for long term use or for providing targeted support during stressful situations.
p
12-16
f
20-25
s
<3
t
<5
Feeding Instructions
As with any new feed, introduce gradually over a week.
Quick soaking, use 2-2.5 parts water to 1 part feed. Use 100g a day per 100kg ideal (not actual) body weight, divided between two feeds. For example, 500g per day for a 500kg horse.
Please use the scale for Simple Balance +
Composition
Sainfoin, Cooked full fat linseed, Stabilised dried yeast, Seaweed meal, Magnesium sulphate, Sodium chloride, Spearmint.
Nutrients
All products are natural and seasonal variations can occur, the packaging of each product will detail the typical analysis which is relevant to the batch/cut within the bag. Below are this product's specification ranges to give an indication of the seasonal variations that can occur for this product.
Specification Ranges
| Crude Fat (Oil) % | 9-11 | % | |
| Crude Ash % | 7-10 | % | |
| Crude Protein % | 12-16 | % | |
| Crude Fibre % | 20-25 | % | |
| Sugar % | <3 | % | |
| Starch % | <5 | % | |
Vitamins & Minerals
We do not add vitamins as the forages themselves have them naturally occurring, often in their precursor form, so the packaging of each forage product details average vitamin & mineral figures produced by the British Association of Green Crop Driers to give an indication of the levels found within Lucerne or Grass. However, Simple System undertakes mineral analysis every two years or when/if the source of the product is changed. Below are the most up to date figures specific to this product.
Major Minerals
| Calcium % | 0.97 |
| Phosphorus % | 0.41 |
| Sodium % | 0.45 |
| Potassium % | 1.5 |
| Magnesium % | 0.28 |
| Chloride % | 0.99 |
| Sulphur % | 0.33 |
Minor Minerals
| Copper mg/kg | 17 |
| Manganese mg/kg | 70 |
| Zinc mg/kg | 72 |
| Iron mg/kg | 563 |
| Selenium mg/kg | 0.16 |
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