Likit Granola Stall-Ball 1.6kg

Likit Granola Stall-Ball – 1.6kg

The Stall-Ball is the hardest thing Likit make. It is a solid sphere of granola — kibbled maize, rolled oats, bruised barley and whole wheat set in glucose — hung straight from a rope with no holder required, and its roundness is the whole design: there is no flat face to bite, so the horse has to lick and grab at a moving target.

Likit rate it as their difficult challenge level, which puts it with horses that already understand their toys or that are strongly food-motivated. Hang it at wither height and clear of the walls; against a wall the horse pins it and the ball goes in a fraction of the time.

Performance & Benefits

• No holder or toy frame needed — it hangs directly from a strong rope.
• Rock-hard formulation that resists biting, so the horse works rather than eats.
• Spherical, with no flat surface to get teeth around; the ball swings as it is worked.
• Rated by Likit as a difficult challenge level, above their lick refills.
• Made in Apple, Peppermint, Mixed Berry and Molasses, so flavours can be rotated.
• Portable — it goes in the lorry for a show or a night away as easily as it hangs at home.

Suitable For

• Stabled horses on box rest or short days, needing something to occupy them.
• Horses with stereotypies, weaving or door-kicking out of boredom.
• Experienced Likit users and strongly food-motivated horses.
• Shows and overnight stays away from home.
• Not for a laminitic or insulin-resistant horse — glucose and sucrose are in the composition. A soaked forage toy or a plain hay ball is the safer enrichment there.

Feeding

• Hang from a strong rope at about wither height, free of the walls.
• Move the hanging point and change flavour periodically to keep the horse interested.
• Treat it as a complementary feed and allow for it within the daily ration.
• Likit publish no feeding rate or daily allowance for the Stall-Ball, so none is stated here.
• Likit describe it as long lasting but publish no duration; how long one lasts depends entirely on the horse and on how it is hung.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: glucose, mixed grains (kibbled maize, rolled oats, bruised barley, whole wheat), sucrose. Additives: flavouring.
• Analysis: crude protein 6.6%, crude oil 2.5%, crude fibre 1.7%, crude ash 0.7%, sodium 0.3%.
• This listing is the 1.6kg size. Likit publish no weight or diameter on their own product page.
• Likit publish no sugar or starch percentage for the Stall-Ball, although glucose is its first listed ingredient; no figure is invented here.
• Claims that one ball lasts from a week to a month appear on retail listings including this store’s previous copy; Likit make no such claim and it has been removed.

Care & Caution

• Hang it on a rope the horse cannot get a leg or a headcollar through, and check the fixing daily — anything swinging in a stable is an entanglement risk.
• High in sugar. Not suitable for horses prone to laminitis, or for those on a restricted-sugar diet.
• Take it down and store it dry once it is small enough to be swallowed or pulled off the rope whole.