Opinions and/or results, please?
My easy keepers have been on it for years. I’m satisfied.
My quarter horse and draft cross have been on it for about 2 years. Most of the horses at the facility are in it and they all look great. The majority are mixed breed foxhunters, all get tons of hay and good turnout.
I am a believer! We put our entire lesson herd on it in October. (Think everything from 20 y/o ponies to 10 y/o 1.30 warmbloods.) We did it as a trial, and I was very skeptical that one product would work for everyone.
It did. Our older horses filled out a bit without adding unnecessary weight. Our younger horses gained topline and lost some belly weight without getting hot and difficult. Everyone has beautiful coats with the questionable grooming they receive.
I liked it so much I even purchased it for my personal horse.
Had my older easy-keeper GP horse on it all summer, because the good grass this year got him too fat. Now that the grass is dead, he’s back on Ultium, but if he blimps out again next summer, he’ll go back on the Enrich. Had my older air fern Friesian on it a few years ago, and she did well,too. (Have lost her since then.)
Good way to get the right balance of vit/min with very little feed. If you just cut down their regular feed, they don’t get the right vit/min amts.
I use the Seminole equivalent to for my easy keeper fatty and give it to my old gal to increase the nutrients she gets since older horses dont absorb nutrients well. (she is 30)
IMHO there are no bad ration balancers, there’s only a gradient from “plenty good enough” to higher quality.
As a whole, RBs are perfect for many horses, whether they don’t need the calories from regular feed, or you’re trying to avoid cereal grains or their piece-parts as much as possible.
If using them as the base of nutrition and calories for the harder keepers, and you’re adding pounds of other things to get calories up, it’s typically more $$ to feed that way, so not ideal from that perspective. But it does give you a lot more flexibility if you have a horse whose needs either require zero grains, or whose calorie requirements vary with the season/work load and you don’t want to constantly change feeds.
