Baileys No.26 Senior Soft & Lite – 20kg

Baileys No.26 Senior Soft & Lite – 20kg

No.26 is the veteran feed for a horse that needs less rather than more: 9.5 MJ/kg, starch at 8% and sugar at 3%, built on soya bean hulls, oatfeed, nutritionally improved straw and unmolassed beet pulp. It soaks to a soft mash in about ten minutes in cold water, so a horse with very little grinding surface left can still eat it.

The gut support in it is unusually thorough — fructo-oligosaccharide and mannan-oligosaccharide prebiotics, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a postbiotic and grape pip solubles — alongside meadow grasses and 1% nettle. This is the Baileys feed for the veteran that is also laminitic or PPID. Supplied in 20kg.

Performance & Benefits

• Starch 8% and sugar 3% — low enough for a laminitic or PPID veteran.
• 9.5 MJ/kg with 21% fibre, so it holds condition without piling calories on.
• Soaks to a soft mash in around ten minutes in cold water.
• Fructo-oligosaccharide and mannan-oligosaccharide prebiotics plus Saccharomyces cerevisiae and a postbiotic.
• 12% protein and 5.5% oil from soya, sunflower meal, distillers' grains, soya oil and micronised linseed.
• Meadow grasses and 1% nettle in the blend.

Suitable For

• Senior horses and ponies with reduced calorie requirements.
• Veterans that need a low-starch ration.
• Horses with poor dentition or a picky appetite.
• Horses prone to laminitis, or diagnosed with PPID.
• Good doers needing weight management rather than weight gain.
• A thin veteran needing weight back on wants more energy than this — Baileys No.24 Ease & Excel Cubes are the low-starch conditioning feed we stock.

Feeding

• Soak to a soft mash, about ten minutes in cold water.
• One level Stubbs round bowl scoop holds about 2kg of dry, unsoaked feed.
• Feed by the dry weight of the feed, not by the volume of the soaked mash.
• Baileys cap a meal at 0.5kg per 100kg bodyweight, dry weight — 2.5kg for a 500kg horse.
• Make it up fresh for each feed and do not leave soaked mash standing in warm weather.
• Baileys publish their per-workload rates on the bag rather than online; their nutrition team will set a rate.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: soya bean hulls, oatfeed, nutritionally improved straw, unmolassed beet pulp, micronised peas, wheatfeed, meadow grasses, alfalfa meal, extracted sunflower meal, distillers' grains, soya oil, micronised linseed, nettle (1%), calcium carbonate, di-calcium carbonate, vitamins and minerals, sodium chloride, postbiotic, calcined magnesite, fructo-oligosaccharide, mannan-oligosaccharide, grape pip solubles, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Supplied in a 20kg bag.
• Digestible energy 9.5 MJ/kg. Protein 12%. Oil 5.5%. Fibre 21%. Ash 8%.
• Starch 8%. Sugar 3%.
• Baileys publish no calcium, phosphorus or sodium figure for this feed, so none is stated here.
• Baileys state no BETA or FEI approval for this feed.