Topspec Cool Feed Balancer 15kg

Topspec Cool Feed Balancer 15kg

Topspec Cool Feed Balancer 15kg has been designed for horses and ponies in light to medium work. It is a moderately conditioning, ‘Non-Heating’ feed balancer.

Cool Feed Balancer is a safe and effective way to improve condition and topline, without promoting excitable behaviour. Using it is an ideal way to complement grass, hay or haylage intake for horses and ponies in light to medium work.

Cool Feed Balancer is an economical feed balancer for those horses that do not need a hoof supplement and are not working hard or showing or in any other demanding circumstances.

Further Key Nutritional Facts:-

• Cereal-grain-free, with low levels of sugar and starch, important for those horses needing controlled levels in their diet. Because it contains very low levels of sugar and starch, and is fed in very low amounts, the chance of excess sugars and starch overflowing from the foregut to the hindgut and causing a microbial imbalance leading to acidic conditions, is virtually eliminated. Therefore, the chances of a horse behaving badly due to ‘acid guts’ are minimised.
• Feeding Cool Feed Balancer improves the amount of nutrients that a horse can extract from his feed in similar ways to Comprehensive Feed Balancer. Because the horse can extract more nutrients from forage, the amount of concentrate that needs to be fed can be reduced. This benefits digestion and is a more natural way of feeding, leading to a more relaxed horse.
• The forage to concentrate ratio is also improved because Cool Feed Balancer is very nutrient-dense. It is fed in very small quantities, for example just 500g (approximately two TopSpec measures) a day for a typical 15.2hh middleweight weighing 500kg. A small amount of hard feed obviously leaves more space in the digestive system for forage than a large hard feed.
• Many factors, including yeast and B vitamins, to help relax behaviour in responsive horses.

Benefits

• Good quality protein to provide the building blocks for muscle development and topline.
• Maintenance levels of biotin, plus associated nutrients, to help preserve hoof quality.
• Magnesium is included at 0.6%, which will contribute 3g of magnesium per day to the diet of a 500kg horse. This may help some horses to concentrate better, particularly if anxious.
• Pure, protected yeast to aid fibre digestibility in the hindgut.
• Organic chelated minerals for improved availability.

TopSpec nutritionists recommend that horses and ponies with nutritionally related problems, such as poor performance or poor hoof/coat quality, should be fed higher levels of appropriate micronutrients from e.g. Comprehensive Feed Balancer.

Cool Feed Balancer is available in 15kg sacks, which last a 500kg horse for 30 days or a 250kg pony for 60 days.

Typical Feeding Regime

Typical feed regime for a 15.2hh (500kg) horse in light-medium work:-

• Grazing plus ad-lib meadow hay or haylage.

Plus two feeds per day - each containing:

• 250g TopSpec Cool Feed Balancer (for condition, muscle development, topline and general health).
• 300g TopChop Lite (‘Non-Heating’ unmolassed alfalfa/straw chop).
• Up to 1.5kg TopSpec UlsaKind Cubes (‘Non-Heating’* conditioning cubes, quantity adjusted according to condition which reflects workload).
• Access to a salt lick 24/7.
• Additives if required; Electrolytes, 10:10 Joint Support, Calmer or Digestive Aid.

Typical Nutritional Analysis:

Oil % 4.0

Protein % 22.0

Fibre % 10.0

DE MJ/kg 12.0

Starch % 7.5

Calcium % 2.4

Magnesium % 0.6

Vitamin E IU/kg 500

Biotin mg/kg 4.0

Typical Compostion

The typical ingredients in TopSpec Cool Feed Balancer are:

• Wheatfeed
• Soya bean meal (GM)
• High Fibre Oat By-Product
• Linseed Expeller
• Grass
• Molasses
• Calcium Carbonate
• Dried Beet Pulp
• Dicalcium Phosphate
• Vitamin Premix
• Sodium Chloride
• Magnesium Oxide
• Soya Oil (GM)