Likit Refill Carrot 650G

Likit Refill – Carrot, 650g

Carrot is the flavour most horses recognise before they have licked it, which makes it the easiest of the 650g refills to start a suspicious horse on. It is a standard Likit block — glucose and dextrose, coloured and flavoured, soft enough that a horse settles into steady licking rather than trying to break pieces off.

At 650g it is the large size, and it fits the Likit Holder and the top section of the Boredom Breaker. Likit's own guidance is not to let a horse have more than half a block a day, so one refill is about two days of use if you follow that.

Performance & Benefits

• Carrot flavour — familiar enough that most horses take to it immediately.
• 650g block on the standard Likit fitting for the Likit Holder and Boredom Breaker.
• Steady licking rather than gulping, which is what makes it last.
• Occupies a stabled horse and takes the edge off box rest.
• Helps head off weaving, wind-sucking and door chewing.
• Portable — take the holder and a refill to a show.

Suitable For

• Horses being introduced to licks for the first time.
• Stabled horses and ponies of any age.
• Owners of a Likit Holder or a Boredom Breaker.
• Box rest and long winter nights in.
• Not one for a laminitic, insulin-resistant or Cushing's horse — the Rockies Baby Pure Salt Lick is the sugar-free lick we stock for stable enrichment.

Feeding

• Press the lick into a Likit Holder, or into the top section of a Boredom Breaker, before offering it. It is not a hand-fed treat.
• The 650g Likit does not fit the Tongue Twister or the Boredom Buster — both of those take 250g Little Likits.
• Likit cap intake at half a Likit, about 300g, per horse per day. A 650g lick is therefore roughly two days' allowance.
• Hang the holder freely at about wither height and clear of the walls, so the horse licks rather than pins and bites it.
• A complementary treat, fed alongside normal forage and hard feed. Clean fresh water at all times.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition, as declared by Likit: glucose, dextrose monohydrate, natural colours, natural and artificial flavourings, and potassium sorbate as a preservative.
• Likit describe the lick as glucose based — in their words, a simple form of sugar much like that found in grass.
• Likit publish no analytical constituents for the flavoured Likit range: no protein, oil, fibre, ash, sugar or starch percentage is given, so none is stated here.
• Figures such as 0.4% ash and 20% moisture appear on some retail listings. Likit publish none, so we do not repeat them.
• Net weight 650g.

Care & Caution

• This is a sugar lick. It is not suitable for laminitic, insulin-resistant or Cushing's (PPID) horses, or any horse on a restricted-sugar diet.
• Likit publish no sugar percentage for the flavoured range, so the sugar load cannot be quantified. Treat it as a sweet treat, not as a neutral boredom aid.
• Stay within Likit's own limit of half a Likit, 300g, a day. Good-doers and native ponies put on weight on licks quickly.
• Check the holder or toy and its rope each time you refill, and take it down if your horse bites lumps off the lick rather than licking it.