Veteran Balancer
Veteran Balancer is a tasty muesli for older horses and ponies that are active and need to manage their weight. It is nutritious and helps maintain health and vitality.
It contains Palatability Plus flavour technology to encourage picky eaters and is coated with slowly digestible calories for energy. This is beneficial for older horses doing light work or active training without risk of metabolic disease.
The balancer contains digestible fibre for slow energy release and full-fat flaxseed meal for omega-3 fatty acids. Live yeast supports healthy digestion, while vitamins and minerals are balanced to complement the roughage diet.
this diet is suitable for older horses with a regular exercise programme that require fewer calories. It provides quality protein for muscle mass, coat and hoof health, while exercise reduces insulin resistance.
Suitable for:
- Older horses and ponies at rest or in light to medium work who require a low calorie, low starch and low sugar diet.
- Older horses and ponies that are ‘good doers’ but who are also more at risk to metabolic disease such as laminitis or EMS.
- Older horses and ponies who are not in work but those who maintain their weight well on smaller intakes of feed.
- Use as a two-part feeding system alongside Saracen Horse Feeds Veteran Mash.
- Horses and ponies requiring slow release, stamina based energy.
- Fussy feeders or those with limited appetites.
Features and benefits:
- High in fibre, low in starch and sugar.
- Balanced with vitamins and chelated minerals, as well as optimum antioxidant support and healthy hoof package.
- Contains a live yeast for optimum digestive health and cost-effective feeding.
- Includes linseed – a good source of Omega 3 fatty acids to support joint health and mobility.
- Includes a mycotoxin binder to provide additional digestive support to those horses and ponies that are being managed on poorer or lower quality forages and grazing.
- Formulated to be fed alongside Saracen Horse Feeds Veteran Mash or Saracen Horse Feeds Re-Covery Mash if required or advised.
- Low daily feed intake to ensure flexible, easy, peace of mind, efficient and effective feeding.
- Encapsulated malted flavour together with Saracen Horse Feed’s unique Palatability Plus taste technology to support and encourage fussy feeders.
- A low glycaemic plant based coating to support optimum metabolic health.
Bodyweight/KG |
Feed/KG |
Per 100kg |
200g daily |
Nutritional information
- Crude fibre: 16%
- Crude protein: 9.5%
- Lysine: 0.7%
- Methionine: 0.4%
- Crude oil: 6.5%
- Crude ash: 7.6%
- Starch: 11%
- Sugar: 8%
- Digestible Energy: 11MJ/kg
Composition
Oatfeed, Dried sugar beet pulp, Soya hulls*, Isomaltulose molasses, Soya flakes*, Pea flakes, Lucerne pellets, Soya oil*, Full fat linseed meal, Barley flakes, Monocalcium phosphate, Vitamins & minerals, Magnesium oxide, Dicalcium phosphate, Molasses, Sodium chloride, Soya bean meal feed, Mixture of flavouring compounds
*Genetically modified material
Traditional but innovative
Saracen is an independent, family owned business with more than 170 years of experience in manufacturing animal feeds. The company takes pride in its traditional family heritage, and stays true to the founding values of trust, integrity, quality, and commitment to exceptional customer service.
In challenging environments, Saracen continues to combine these values with modern manufacturing capabilities and innovative, research-led formulations keep the company at the forefront of modern feed manufacture.
Wide range
With its range of feeds, Saracen has brought together the everyday items needed for feeding different types of horses in varying stages of life and activity, growth and development. The feeds continue to provide the top quality nutrition you expect from Saracen, and it doesn’t have to be expensive. When fed correctly, Saracen products can be very cost effective due to their nutrient density.
Quality control
Saracen is dedicated to producing nutritionally sound, innovative rations and providing customers with an accessible and personal service. The company sets itself the highest of standards in quality control. Annual quality audits determine continued compliance to UFAS (United Feed Assurance Scheme) and BETA NOPS Code of Practice. Saracen has an "open declaration" policy, which means that every ingredient is declared on the feed labels. Saracen also works to fixed formulations to protect the integrity and quality of its diets.
Personal
Feeding a horse properly doesn’t have to be difficult or complicated as long as you keep your nutritional goals in mind. Saracen is here to help you understand how to achieve those goals with the correct products and feeding strategies: simple, practical solutions that make sense. Saracen has a professional, well-qualified and understanding team of people on its staff who work hard to listen to your horse’s nutritional requirements, and to your ambitions.
You can request advice and a free no obligation "Feed Check" with the Saracen Feed Advice Form, or use our interactive Ration Consultant, to find out if the diet you are feeding your horse is meeting his nutrient requirements.
The consultant will ask you questions on your horse and their routine and will help you to understand if/where their diet is lacking in essential vitamins and minerals.
Partnership with Kentucky Equine Research (KER)
Saracen Horse Feeds Ltd. has always been dedicated to producing nutritionally sound, innovative formulas and providing customers with accessible personal service. These commitments led Saracen to Kentucky Equine Research (KER), founded by Dr. Joe Pagan Ph.D. in 1988.
Saracen is the exclusive Kentucky Equine Research (KER) Team Member in the UK.
KER is the most prolific independent equine research center in the world, entirely committed to the advancement of breeding and athletic performance through nutrition. The aim at KER is to enhance the understanding of equine nutrition and exercise physiology, and apply this knowledge to produce healthier, more athletic horses. From its headquarters in Central Kentucky, KER conducts extensive research, and each research trial is designed to improve the health and wellbeing of horses by targeting specific problems, and finding nutritional solutions.
The collaboration has given Saracen the chance to consistently provide nutritional solutions with unique, progressive feeds that can make a real difference, along with the science to support them. RE-LEVE®, Level-Grow™ and Super Fibre Pencils are good examples of concept feeds that have been produced as joint projects.
For more information on KER, please click here.
