Blue Chip Feed Quiz
Feed Balancers VS. Powder Supplements
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Feed Balancers
Feed balancers provide a complete and balanced blend of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients in a convenient, palatable pellet form. They ensure consistent intake and absorption of key nutrients without adding extra calories.
By simplifying feeding routines, reducing waste, and delivering bioavailable nutrition, feed balancers are an ideal option for maintaining a horse's overall health and well-being.
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Powdered Supplements
Powdered supplements, on the other hand, are useful for targeting specific deficiencies but can be less stable and more difficult to feed. They often require careful management to ensure the horse’s diet remains balanced. Powders can also lead to waste if left behind in the feed bucket or spilled, and using multiple supplements to balance the diet can quickly become expensive.
Did you know every Blue Chip Feed Balancer incorporates a hoof, respiratory, digestive, skin, and coat supplement, alongside added immune support and nucleotides? This guarantees thorough care from head to hoof, eliminating the need for additional supplementation.
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SoundHoof™
For the formation of strong, pliable, quality hooves. Complete hoof supplement includes biotin, methionine, lysine, organic zinc and organic copper.
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PrimoVento™
A carefully formulated respiratory supplement helping to soothe the airways and maintain lung health and integrity. Containing antioxidants, menthol, eucalyptus and garlic.
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Skin & Coat
To ensure healthy, scurf-free skin and a glossy, gleaming coat every one of our balancers includes oil, linseed oil, organic zinc and natural vegetable sources of omega 3 and 6 fatty acids.
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Digestive Supplement
Combines a high concentration of prebiotic MOS and probiotic alongside nucleotides. This combination is proven to increase forage digestibility by up to 100% in a study conducted by Hartpury College.
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Immune support
Formulated to aid the ‘mopping up’ of free radicals and promote a healthy immune system with antioxidants; selenium, vitamin C and vitamin E.
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Nucleotides
Nucleotides help support immunity, stamina, cell replication, and repair of damaged cells. Essential to every cell in the body, a key part of the digestive supplement, they are the building blocks of DNA and RNA.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you need to feed a feed balancer all year round?
Feeding balanced levels of vitamins, minerals and supporting ingredients such as anti-oxidants and protein keeps your pony/horse healthy in the long term. Over time, deficiencies in minerals could have a negative effect on your ponies/horse’s health.
Does my horse need a balancer in the summer?
Mid to late summer is arguably one of the most important times to feed a balancer- this ensures your horse or pony still gets all the vitamins, minerals and nutrients they need to maintain overall long term health.
Can you feed a horse balancer on its own?
Yes, feed balancers can be fed by hand, or as part of a forage-based diet (hay, grass and fibre).
What is the best feed to put weight on older horses?
Blue Chip Senior Plus is formulated for horses and ponies over 14 years needing extra support. Enhanced Nutrition, a complete vitamin and mineral package, with organic, chelated minerals to ensure optimum absorption and effectiveness.
What should I feed my good doer without him putting weight on?
ALL Blue Chip balancers are low in calories and molasses free too, containing extremely low levels of starch with no added sugar. You can feed a balancer to provide all the daily vitamins and minerals your pony/horse needs without the worry of additional weight gain. Our Low Calorie feed balancer, can actively help promote safe weight loss.
Diet balancers and those aimed at good doers, such as Lami Light and our Super Concentrated range, are especially beneficial as part of a calorie-controlled diet. These balancers support overall health with individual formulations to target specific potential issues.