Likit Blueberry Refill – Flavoured Horse & Pony Boredom-Breaker Treat 650g

Likit Refill – Blueberry, 650g

Blueberry is not one of Likit's seven standing flavours — apple, banana, carrot, cherry, garlic, mint and molasses are — so it comes and goes alongside their other rotating additions. That makes it worth picking up when it is around, particularly for a horse that has grown bored of the flavour it has had all winter.

The lick itself is the standard 650g Likit: a glucose and dextrose block, soft enough to be licked steadily, which seats in a Likit Holder or in the top section of a Boredom Breaker. It is not a hand treat and it is not sized for the smaller toys.

Performance & Benefits

• Blueberry flavour, a change from the standard apple, mint, carrot and molasses.
• Standard 650g Likit block — fits the Likit Holder and the Boredom Breaker.
• Encourages sustained licking, which produces saliva and occupies a bored horse.
• A practical way to make box rest and long stabled hours pass.
• Reduces the stable habits — weaving, cribbing, door chewing — that boredom feeds.
• One block covers roughly two days at Likit's own recommended rate.

Suitable For

• Stabled horses and ponies needing something to occupy them.
• Horses that have gone stale on their usual lick flavour.
• Owners of a Likit Holder or Boredom Breaker.
• Box rest, travelling and overnight stabling.
• 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.