TopSpec AntiLam – 15kg Forage Balancer for Laminitis-Prone Horses

TopSpec AntiLam Forage Balancer – 15kg

AntiLam is the balancer TopSpec built for horses and ponies prone to laminitis, being treated for it, or coming back from it. It is cereal-grain-free and pelleted, and the declared analysis is the part that matters to this buyer: 6.5% starch, 20% fibre and 9.0 MJ/kg of digestible energy, which is low enough to feed to an animal on a strictly controlled diet.

Micronutrient levels are where a forage balancer earns its keep, and TopSpec publish theirs. Biotin is declared at 30mg/kg, so the recommended 500g a day gives a 500kg horse 15mg — the level shown in trials to improve hoof quality. Vitamin E is 2,500iu/kg, calcium 2.5% and magnesium 0.6%, all delivered in half a kilo rather than a bucket of feed.

Performance & Benefits

• Cereal-grain-free, with starch declared at 6.5% and digestible energy at 9.0 MJ/kg.
• Biotin at 30mg/kg, giving 15mg a day at the recommended rate for a 500kg horse.
• Vitamin E at 2,500iu/kg, calcium at 2.5% and magnesium at 0.6%.
• 20% fibre, with mannan oligosaccharides included as a prebiotic.
• Delivers a full micronutrient specification in 500g a day, so it balances a restricted forage diet without adding meaningful calories.
• Palatable enough to be fed from the hand to horses at pasture.

Suitable For

• Horses and ponies prone to laminitis.
• Horses diagnosed with Equine Metabolic Syndrome, insulin dysregulation or PPID, alongside veterinary management.
• Overweight horses and ponies on a calorie-controlled diet.
• Horses recovering from an episode of laminitis.
• A horse that later needs to put condition on has outgrown AntiLam — TopSpec Comprehensive Feed Balancer is the one to move to, provided the laminitis risk has genuinely passed.

Feeding

• Feed 100g per 100kg bodyweight daily — 500g for a 500kg horse, 250g for a 250kg pony.
• A half-pint mug holds roughly 200g, so a 500kg horse takes about two and a half mugs a day.
• A 15kg sack lasts a 500kg horse 30 days, or a 250kg pony 60 days.
• Split it between two feeds where you can, and mix it into a damp chop.
• Provide access to a salt lick at all times, and clean fresh water.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: high fibre oat by-product, grass, linseed expeller, calcium carbonate, dried beet pulp, wheatfeed, molasses, vitamin premix, soya bean meal (GM), sodium chloride, dicalcium phosphate, mannan oligosaccharides, magnesium oxide.
• Typical analysis: protein 12.0%, oil 3.7%, fibre 20.0%, starch 6.5%.
• Digestible energy 9.0 MJ/kg. Calcium 2.5%, magnesium 0.6%.
• Vitamin E 2,500iu/kg. Biotin 30.0mg/kg.
• TopSpec publish no sugar percentage for AntiLam, so none is stated here.
• 15kg sack, pelleted.

Care & Caution

• Laminitis is a veterinary emergency. A horse that is acutely lame, reluctant to turn, or rocking back onto its heels needs a vet the same day.
• AntiLam provides nutritional support alongside veterinary treatment and strict forage and grazing management. It does not replace either.
• Do not exceed the stated rate in the belief that more micronutrients will help faster. The rate is set against a restricted diet.