Horslyx Mobility Balancer Tub – 5 kg Supplement for Horses & Ponies

Horslyx Mobility Balancer – 5kg Tub

The 5kg Mobility tub is the single-horse joint lick: about twenty days at the intake Horslyx expect, and light enough to move between a stable and a paddock. If you are feeding a joint supplement to one horse rather than a yard, this is the size that fits.

Mobility is built on the Original balancer with two joint ingredients named in the declared composition — methyl sulphonyl methane (MSM) and glucosamine hydrochloride — sitting above magnesium oxide in the list. Vitamin E and vitamin C are both raised to 2,000mg per kg, and phosphorus and sodium run slightly lower than the Original at 1.4% and 2.2%.

Performance & Benefits

• MSM and glucosamine hydrochloride declared in the composition, not merely claimed in the copy.
• Vitamin E and vitamin C both at 2,000mg per kg, against 1,200mg of E and no C in the Original.
• Selenium 5mg per kg working alongside the vitamin E.
• Copper 600mg and zinc 1,200mg per kg, part-supplied as glycine chelates.
• About twenty days for one 500kg horse.
• Weatherproof, so it works in a field shelter as well as a stable.
• No artificial colours or preservatives.

Suitable For

• Older horses and ponies with everyday wear and tear.
• Competition and hunting horses whose joints take a pounding through a season.
• One horse, replaced roughly every three weeks.
• Horses that cannot be got to eat a powdered joint supplement in a feed.
• It is not a gut or airway lick — Horslyx Pro Digest Balancer 5kg and Horslyx Respiratory Balancer Stable Lick 5kg cover those.

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.
• A 5kg tub is roughly twenty days for one 500kg horse.
• 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.
• Use the 5kg Horslyx Holder with its detachable restrictor grill where a pony would otherwise take too much.
• Feed alongside forage and fresh water.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: dehydrated cane molasses, pure vegetable oil, monocalcium phosphate, sodium chloride, prairie meal, calcium carbonate, methyl sulphonyl methane (MSM), glucosamine hydrochloride, magnesium oxide.
• Analytical constituents: crude oil and fats 6%, crude protein 6.5%, crude fibre 0.25%, crude ash 23%, sugar (as sucrose) 33%, calcium 2.5%, phosphorus 1.4%, magnesium 0.4%, sodium 2.2%.
• Additives per kg: vitamin A 25,000iu, vitamin D3 5,000iu, vitamin E 2,000mg, vitamin C 2,000mg, vitamin B12 220mcg, biotin 12mg.
• 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.
• Horslyx publish no inclusion level for the glucosamine HCl, the MSM or the omega oils, so no milligram figures are given here.
• Sugar (as sucrose) is 33%, which at the 250g daily intake works out at the 82.5g of sugar per day Horslyx themselves quote — less than a kilo of hay supplies.
• Horslyx describe the whole Balancer range as extremely low in starch but publish no starch percentage, so none is stated here.

Care & Caution

• Horslyx state that their Balancers are suitable for horses and ponies susceptible to or suffering from laminitis, introduced gradually with no more than ten minutes' access at first.
• If the forage ration is being restricted, Horslyx say not to allow free access to the lick — a hungry horse is more likely to over-consume it.
• A joint lick is fed at 250g a day — a horse emptying the tub in a week is getting far more than the formulation assumes.