Baileys No.8 Meadow Sweet – 20kg

Baileys No.8 Meadow Sweet with Turmeric – 20kg

Baileys sell this one as No.8 Meadow Sweet with Turmeric, and the turmeric is not a garnish — TurmerAid is built into the mix, with black pepper and apple cider vinegar alongside it. Underneath is a molasses-free, fully balanced fibre feed carrying no whole cereal flakes at all, finished with a honey coating at 1.5% and a mint dusting at 0.1% to get it eaten.

The numbers are the reason to buy it: 7.5% starch, 5% sugar and 20% fibre, at 10 MJ/kg of digestible energy. That is a resting-to-light-work ration for a horse that needs a proper balanced feed rather than a bucket of calories, and Baileys name laminitis-prone, excitable and sensitive-stomached horses as the intended audience.

Performance & Benefits

• Low starch at 7.5% and low sugar at 5%, with no whole cereal flakes in the mix.
• Molasses free — the palatability comes from a 1.5% honey coating and a 0.1% mint dusting.
• 20% fibre and 10 MJ/kg digestible energy, so it feeds without fizzing.
• TurmerAid turmeric included, with black pepper and apple cider vinegar.
• Fully balanced, so it can be fed as the only hard feed alongside forage.
• Baileys name it for horses prone to laminitis, excitable temperaments and sensitive stomachs.

Suitable For

• Horses and ponies at rest or in light work with low to moderate calorie needs.
• Leisure horses that need a feed sympathetic to the digestive system.
• Older horses, and any horse whose owner wants turmeric in the diet.
• Excitable types whose owners prefer a low-starch bucket.
• Not enough energy for a horse in hard or competition work — Baileys No.9 All-Round Competition Mix or No.21 Ease & Excel carry the calories for that.

Feeding

• Feed alongside ad-lib forage and clean, fresh water.
• Introduce over seven to ten days, replacing the old feed gradually.
• Baileys publish no daily rate or scoop weight on the No.8 product page — feed to bodyweight, workload and condition.
• Fully balanced when fed at the recommended rate, so no separate broad-spectrum balancer is needed.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: oatfeed, wheatfeed, alfalfa meal, micronised peas, distillers' grains, oat straw chaff, beet pulp, alfalfa chaff, soya oil, nutritionally improved straw, micronised soya, honey (1.5%), soya hulls, dicalcium phosphate, calcium carbonate, sodium chloride, turmeric, vitamins and minerals, calcined magnesite, micronised linseed, mint (0.1%), apple cider vinegar, black pepper.
• Typical analysis: digestible energy 10 MJ/kg, protein 11%, oil 5.5%, fibre 20%, ash 7.5%, starch 7.5%, sugar 5%.
• 20kg bag. Baileys publish no bag sizes on the product page.
• Baileys make no BETA laminitis or EGUS approval claim for No.8; the laminitis-prone wording above is Baileys' own targeting, not an accreditation.