Horslyx Minis Horse Lick Mint, 650 g for Horses & Ponies x 12

Horslyx Mint Mini Licks – 12 x 650g

A case of twelve peppermint minis. At Horslyx's three-days-a-tub reckoning that is roughly thirty-six horse-days, which is the point at which buying singles stops making sense — most people move to the case once mint has proved to be the flavour their horse will take.

Each tub is Original Balancer with peppermint oil: same 6.5% protein, same 23% ash, same vitamin and trace element additives, with flavouring compounds declared at 1,000mg per kg. Twelve of them cover a season of rewards, farrier visits and lorry journeys without opening a 5kg tub each time.

Performance & Benefits

• Twelve hand-held 650g tubs of Mint Balancer, roughly three days each.
• Peppermint oil in the composition, flavouring compounds at 1,000mg per kg.
• Analysis identical to Original Balancer — the mint costs nothing in specification.
• Keeps a spare in the lorry, the tack room and the trailer without decanting anything.
• Full Horslyx vitamin and trace element package in every tub.
• No artificial colours or preservatives.

Suitable For

• Yards that get through minis as rewards and distractions.
• Horses that reliably prefer mint to garlic or plain.
• Clipping, loading, farrier and veterinary work.
• Stretching exercises across several horses.
• For continuous feeding to one horse, Horslyx Mint Balancer 5kg is cheaper per kilo than a case of minis.

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 650g mini is roughly three days for one horse, so twelve run to about thirty-six horse-days.
• Open one tub at a time; the rest keep sealed.
• 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.
• Feed alongside forage and fresh water.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: dehydrated cane molasses, monocalcium phosphate, pure vegetable oil, sodium chloride, prairie meal, calcium carbonate, magnesium oxide, peppermint oil.
• 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 1.6%, magnesium 0.4%, sodium 2.5%.
• Additives per kg: vitamin A 25,000iu, vitamin D3 5,000iu, vitamin E 1,200mg, vitamin B12 220mcg, biotin 12mg, flavouring compounds 1,000mg.
• 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 credit biotin, zinc and methionine for hoof quality; biotin is declared at 12mg per kg and zinc at 1,200mg per kg, and no methionine figure is published.
• Horslyx describe the whole Balancer range as extremely low in starch but publish no starch percentage, so none is stated here.