Equilibrium Simply Irresistible Virtuous Vegetables – 1.5kg

Equilibrium Simply Irresistible Virtuous Vegetable – 1.5kg

Virtuous Vegetable is a dried vegetable feed topping — carrots, beetroot, peas, parsnip and courgette — with a probiotic worked through it. The job it does is simple: it makes a dull bucket feed worth eating, and it hides a wormer or a powder that a horse has decided it dislikes.

Equilibrium build it around a 50g daily serving, which is why a 1.5kg pack is described as thirty days’ worth. It is a treat and a palatability aid rather than a feed in its own right, and the vegetables bring plant antioxidants with them.

Performance & Benefits

• Dried carrots, beetroot, peas, parsnip and courgette in one topping.
• Contains a probiotic, which Equilibrium include to support digestive health.
• Turns a small, boring feed into something a fussy horse will finish.
• Useful for disguising wormers, powders and medication.
• Vegetables rather than cereal, so the flavour comes from real plant material.
• Supplied in recyclable packaging.

Suitable For

• Fussy feeders and horses that leave a plain bucket feed.
• Anyone dosing a horse with something it can taste and object to.
• Horses on restricted, low-interest feeds that need a lift.
• Horses and ponies with laminitis, EMS or PPID should not be given it without veterinary advice — Equilibrium make no laminitis claim for it.
• If you want the fruit version instead, the Fabulous Fruits 1.5kg we stock is the same idea built on apples, apricots, dates and sultanas.

Feeding

• Equilibrium work to a daily serving of 50 grams.
• A 1.5kg pack therefore lasts about thirty days.
• Sprinkle over hard feed, chaff or forage, or use it to bury a powder.
• Feed alongside a balanced diet, not as a replacement for any part of it.
• Also made in a 3kg pack.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition as published by Equilibrium: carrots, beetroot, peas, parsnip, courgette, plus a probiotic.
• Equilibrium publish no analytical constituents for this product on their website. Earlier listings here carried no analysis at all; the figures on the pack are the ones to work from.
• Equilibrium say a small sprinkle or handful adds only a few grams of sugar and trace amounts of starch.
• Earlier copy on this page described the product as suitable for horses prone to laminitis. Equilibrium do not make that claim, and it has been removed.
• A fuller ingredient declaration with percentages appears on the pack.

Care & Caution

• Dried vegetables carry sugar. Equilibrium make no laminitis claim for this product, so check with your vet before feeding it to a laminitic, insulin-resistant, EMS or PPID horse.
• It is a topping, not a feed. Stick to the 50g serving rather than free-feeding it.
• Introduce it gradually, as with any change to a horse’s diet.