Horslyx Mini Pro Digest Horse Supplement Lick, 0.65 kg

Horslyx Pro Digest Mini Lick – 650g

The 650g Pro Digest mini is the gut lick in hand-held form — roughly three days for one horse, and the tub most people reach for when a horse is travelling, stabled away from home or off its feed for a day or two.

It carries the same formulation as the 5kg and 15kg Pro Digest tubs: slippery elm bark, seaweed meal, a prebiotic yeast extract and Actisaf live yeast at 8 x 10¹⁰ cfu per kg, with magnesium raised to 0.9%. The spiced apple flavouring makes it one of the easier licks to get a suspicious horse to try.

Performance & Benefits

• Live Actisaf yeast declared at 8 x 10¹⁰ cfu per kg in a 650g tub.
• Slippery elm bark and seaweed meal, Horslyx's named stomach-to-hindgut ingredients.
• Magnesium at 0.9%, the highest of any Horslyx Balancer.
• Spiced apple flavouring at 500mg per kg — the range's most tempting flavour for fussy horses.
• Vitamin E at 2,000mg per kg, above the Original lick's 1,200mg.
• Licking encourages saliva, the horse's own acid buffer, which matters most on a lorry.

Suitable For

• Horses that travel badly or go off their feed away from home.
• Short spells of box rest or a change of routine.
• Testing whether a horse takes to Pro Digest before buying a 5kg tub.
• Distraction during clipping, scanning or farrier work.
• Three days is not a digestive programme — Horslyx Pro Digest Balancer 5kg is the tub to feed continuously.

Feeding

• Horslyx give an expected intake of 250g a day for a 500kg horse, 200g for a 300kg pony and 300g for a 700kg horse.
• Horslyx put a 650g mini at roughly three days' supply for one horse.
• Leave the lick in its own tub rather than turning it out onto the floor.
• Introduce it slowly and monitor the intake rate; Horslyx note that consumption usually falls once a horse has got used to having a lick available.
• Feed alongside forage and fresh water.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: dehydrated cane molasses, monocalcium phosphate, pure vegetable oil, sodium chloride, prairie meal, calcium carbonate, magnesium oxide, Actisaf yeast, yeast product, bark (slippery elm), seaweed meal.
• Analytical constituents: crude oil and fats 6%, crude protein 6.5%, crude fibre 0.25%, crude ash 23%, sugar (as sucrose) 33%, calcium 2.2%, phosphorus 1.5%, magnesium 0.9%, sodium 2.7%.
• Additives per kg: vitamin A 25,000iu, vitamin D3 5,000iu, vitamin E 2,000mg, vitamin B12 220mcg, biotin 12mg, apple flavouring 500mg, Saccharomyces cerevisiae 8 x 10¹⁰ cfu.
• Trace elements per kg: copper 540mg from copper (II) sulphate plus 60mg as copper chelate of glycine, zinc 1,080mg from zinc sulphate plus 120mg as zinc chelate of glycine, manganese 800mg, iodine 6mg, selenium 5mg.
• No inclusion level is published for the slippery elm or the seaweed meal, so none is stated here.
• Horslyx describe the whole Balancer range as extremely low in starch but publish no starch percentage, so none is stated here.