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Mollichaff Calmer Complete – 15kg

Calmer Complete is Mollichaff's answer to the nervous or over-reactive horse: a fibre-based complete feed carrying elevated magnesium alongside vitamins B1, B12 and E, with chamomile, lemon balm and mint blended through it. The nutritional argument is that a horse short of magnesium and B vitamins is a horse with a nervous system under strain, and that the answer is diet rather than a paste before you get on.

It is built to be fed as the sole concentrate: straw, grass and fibre pellets with a broad-spectrum vitamin and mineral supplement, running at 9.8 MJ/kg with starch at 2.8% and sugar at 7–8%. Keeping starch that low is half the point — a large cereal feed is one of the commonest reasons a horse is sharp in the first place.

Performance & Benefits

• Elevated magnesium plus vitamins B1, B12 and E, supporting normal nervous system function.
• Chamomile, lemon balm and mint blended through the feed rather than fed as a separate supplement.
• Low starch at 2.8%, avoiding the cereal load that makes many horses sharp.
• Sugar declared at 7–8%, low by the standards of the molassed chaffs.
• 25% crude fibre with 9.8 MJ/kg, so the energy arrives slowly from fibre and oil.
• Broad-spectrum vitamin and mineral supplement, so it works as the only concentrate alongside forage.

Suitable For

• Excitable, nervous or over-reactive horses and ponies.
• Horses that lose the plot away from home, at shows or on the lorry.
• Owners wanting to strip cereal starch out of the diet without dropping the bucket feed.
• Feeding as the sole concentrate alongside good-quality forage.
• Not a conditioning feed — a nervous horse that is also poor is better served by Mollichaff Condition Complete, with the calming support fed separately.

Feeding

• Feed daily by bodyweight alongside good-quality forage: 1kg for a 200kg pony, 1.5kg at 300kg, 2kg at 400kg, 2.25kg at 450kg, 2.5kg at 500kg and 3kg at 600kg.
• That is about 0.5kg per 100kg of bodyweight — 2.5kg a day for a typical 500kg horse.
• One level Stubbs scoop (2.6 litres) of Calmer Complete weighs approximately 0.45kg, so a 500kg horse takes around five and a half level scoops daily.
• Split the daily amount across two or more feeds, dry or damped to preference.
• Fed at these rates with good-quality forage it needs no further supplementation. Introduce gradually over 7–10 days.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: straw, grass, fibre pellets, molasses, soya oil, broad spectrum vitamin and mineral supplement, chamomile, lemon balm, mint, limestone.
• Typical analysis: energy 9.8 MJ/kg. Protein 7.5–8.5%. Fibre 25%. Oil 5.7%. Starch 2.8%. Sugar 7–8%.
• Bag size 15kg.
• Mollichaff publish no ash, calcium or sodium figure, and no inclusion rates for the magnesium, B vitamins or the herbs, so none is stated here.
• Calmer Complete does contain a molasses inclusion, but at 7–8% declared sugar and 2.8% starch Mollichaff describe it as low in sugar and starch. Where laminitis is the primary concern, Mollichaff HoofKind Complete is the product formulated for it.

Care & Caution

• Check current FEI and BHA rules before feeding any calming product to a horse competing under them, and observe any applicable withdrawal period.
• A sudden change in temperament is a veterinary question before it is a feed question. Pain, ulcers, saddle fit and teeth account for a great many "sharp" horses.