Simple System Build & Shine – 18kg Lucerne Chop with Cold-Pressed Linseed Oil

Simple System Build & Shine – 18kg

Build & Shine is the richest of Simple System's lucerne chops, and the one to reach for when a horse needs to gain rather than hold. Dried lucerne chop is coated with fresh cold-pressed linseed oil, which lifts the oil content to 5–7% and supplies energy as fat rather than as starch — calories without the fizz, and the Omega 3 that shows up first in the coat.

The declared analysis puts crude protein at 18–22% against starch of under 3% and sugar under 7%, which is an unusual combination: plenty of quality protein for muscle and topline, without the cereal starch that normally comes attached to a conditioning feed. Simple System rate the digestible energy at 9–10 MJ/kg, in the medium band.

Performance & Benefits

• Dried lucerne chop with cold-pressed linseed oil, and nothing else in the bag.
• Crude protein 18–22%, so it builds topline as well as covering ribs.
• Oil at 5–7% carries the calories; starch stays under 3%.
• Omega 3 from the linseed oil supports skin and coat condition.
• A chop rather than a pellet, so it takes real chewing and slows a feed down.
• Free from cereals, molasses, pulses, soya, preservatives and additives.

Suitable For

• Poor doers and horses that need to gain condition.
• Competition horses and horses in regular work.
• Young, growing horses.
• Horses that need condition but turn sharp on cereals.
• Too rich for a good doer or an overweight pony — Simple System Organic Lucie Stalks gives bulk without calories, and MetaSlim balances a restricted ration.

Feeding

• Introduce gradually over a week, as with any new feed.
• Simple System publish no fixed rate per 100kg bodyweight for Build & Shine — feed to requirements and condition.
• A level Stubbs bowl scoop holds approximately 400g.
• Feed alone or alongside a Simple System forage and balancer.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: dried lucerne chop and cold-pressed linseed oil. 18kg bag.
• Crude protein 18–22%. Crude fibre 25–35%. Crude fat (oil) 5–7%. Crude ash 10–12%.
• Sugar under 7%. Starch under 3%. Digestible energy 9–10 MJ/kg (medium).
• Major minerals: calcium 1.57%, potassium 1.58%, chloride 0.66%, sulphur 0.21%, phosphorus 0.19%, magnesium 0.15%, sodium 0.11%.
• Trace minerals: iron 198 mg/kg, zinc 20 mg/kg, manganese 14 mg/kg, selenium 0.55 mg/kg, copper 1.58 mg/kg.
• No vitamins are added; the forage carries them naturally. Seasonal variation occurs and each bag details the batch analysis.