I was wondering if any body feeds this or can tell me about how the guaranteed analysis looks. It’s becoming pretty popular base nutrition balancer to replace other popular balancers and vitamin mineral in pssm group!
Contrary to their claims if majikalness about their products, they aren’t magic
Note that the GA is in terms of 1kg, while a scoop is 54gm, while most average horses (500-600kg, 1100-1320lb) would get 1 2/3scoop (88gm).
So, multiple everything in the GA by .0.088 to get the total for each nutrient in that serving
It’s no bad for the trace minerals and biotin, but very weak on the AA front.
EquiFeast makes a lot of unsubstantiated claims about their chelated Ca, and about magnesium, so from an association perspective, I wouldn’t ever use his products.
That said, there are some things in there, like choline which supports nerve health, B vitamins (which horses make pretty well on their own, but sometimes they need help, not sure if PSSM increases that need), so are 1 or more of those a reason some PSSM horses may do well on it? I have zero idea.
It is NOT a ration balancer - too low in amino acids. It’s closer to a forage balancers, with some extras.
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Nope, having seen the behaviour of ‘Equifeast’ on social media would be enough to put me off their products. Plus their response when complaints about 7 of their claims were taken to the ASA… all 7 were upheld.
https://www.asa.org.uk/rulings/calinnova-ltd-a14-259007.html
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you want a fun read on their stance on magnesium? It’s a wonder we haven’t killed our horses with “artificial magnesium supplementation”
Magnesium - our controversial but science supported view (equifeast-shop.com)
It is our view that horses sedated with artificial magnesium sources are less able to make safe decisions.
I am not great with nutrition, I merely read numbers off of the sites online and go off of that. With that being said:
It’s very low in Vitamin E. Not a big deal if you horse eats grass, but any horse being fed a hay based diet is going to need more than provided.
Unless your horse has a specific health condition, you don’t need to supplement any of the B vitamins.
It’s pretty high in calcium, which depending on what you feed for hay might throw your phosphorus/calcium levels off.
Depending on your location the selenium level might be too high. It depends on where your hay is grown or, if your horse eats mostly grass, where you live.
Overall it’s not terrible, but I think there’s a lot of stuff in there that you are paying for that’s not necessary.
There are a lot of supplements, and even feeds, that require additional supplementation of Vit E. That alone doesn’t bother me.
133gm/kg, in an 88gm serving for a 500-600kg horse, is 11gm. That’s not terribly high, and is probably a good addition to a lot of grass forages. Not ideal for high legume forages, or for grass hay that already has a high enough ratio of ca:phos
Se is the same - 21gm/kg is 1.14mg in an 88gm serving
All the numbers are listed per kg (1000gm), which is a terrible way to list things when a serving size starts at 53gm.
