We started feeding Lo-cal balancer after one of our ponies had suffered Laminitis, and had to be on restricted grazing. We wanted to ensure he still got all his daily vitamins and minerals, but without the sugars and calories that other feeds would contain. We put all of our then three ponies, including our foal at the time, on the same balancer because they are all prone to getting overweight being moorland ponies. Our mare had very poor quality hooves and we noticed a dramatic improvement in them which our trimmer confirmed not long after we first started feeding Lo-cal. We feed it to all our horses and ponies (now 13 ranging from 10hh Dartmoor hill pony to ...  Read the complete review

Bailey's No. 14 Lo-Cal Balancer is a feed designed to provide all the vitamins a horse needs without adding to its calorific intake. It can be fed alongside other feeds or on its own, making it ideal to keep working horses in good condition but also aid hoof repair in horses recovering from laminitis. It also contains Yea-Sacc1026 yeast culture which improves the efficiency of the gut, meaning the horse is more able to benefit from any additional feed or forage. Most importantly this feed is non-heating, useful for the excitable types! It retails at around £23 and comes in a 20 kg, double-thickness yellow paper bag with the Bailey's logo on the front in ...  Read the complete review