Benchmark Balancer Mash®
A concentrated nutritional formula packed with essential nutrients and amino acids but without the carbohydrates - served as a convenient mash.
What is a Genuine Balancer?
Balancers or concentrates are a very useful nutritional tool that can make a valuable contribution to your horse’s diet. A balancer contains a concentrated amount of nutrition in a small daily dose. Genuine balancers contain high levels of essential amino acids, (the building blocks of protein) vitamins and minerals and importantly contain no grains or grain by-products.
Benchmark Balancer Mash® can be fed alone (with the addition of fibre) or it can be fed in conjunction with Benchmark Super Fibre Mash, grains or a high fat energy source.
The applications for Benchmark Balancer Mash® are numerous and include:
- All horses who react to feeds high in starch and sugar.
- Horses at risk of, or suffering from laminitis, cushings, IR, PSSM or EMS.
- Horses on box rest or recovering from injury, illness, or surgery.
- Horses requiring more topline or muscle mass.
- To supplement horses grazing limited or poor-quality pasture.
- Horses prone to weight gain that require a low dose, low carb concentrate.
- Growing youngstock that require a ration high in protein but low in starch and sugar.
Feeding the recommended daily rate of Benchmark Balancer Mash® to your horse will improve any ration by topping up nutritional deficiencies that may occur in fibre, pasture, grains, or poor-quality complete feeds.
Feeding Rates and Directions (kg/day)
| Benchmark Balancer Mash® | Bodyweight(kg) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 300 | 400 | 500 | |
| Idle/Paddock Rest/Spelling horses | 400g | 500g | 750g |
| Light to Medium Work | 500g | 750g | 1kg |
| Horses Recovering from Illness, Injury or Surgery | 500g | 750g | 1kg |
| Horses Requiring Topline or Muscle Mass* | 300g | 400g | 500g |
| Foals 6-12 Months** | 400g | 500g | 750g |
| Weanlings/Yearlings** | 500g | 750g | 1kg |
| Broodmares - Early-Stage Pregnancy | 500g | 700g | 900g |
| Broodmares - Late-Stage Pregnancy | 600g | 800g | 1kg |
| Lactating Mares | 700g | 900g | 1.25kg |
| Stallions at Stud | 750g | 1kg | 1.25kg |
*Added to a complete feed
**Bodyweight is expected mature weight
Daily Minimum Fibre Requirement for Horses
To enable a horse to maintain a properly functioning hindgut with natural microbial fermentation for complete gut and body health, it is highly recommended that at least 1% of the horse’s body weight be fed as fibre. For a 500kg horse, this is equal to a minimum of 5kg a day in the form of pasture, hay and/or quality alternative high-fibre products.
Balancer Mash Meal Plan
Create a highly nutritious, protein rich ration that is very low in starch and sugar by adding Benchmark Balancer Mash® to a base of Benchmark Super Fibre Mash®
Ingredients
Soy hulls, canola meal, lupins, Benchmark’s Vitamin, Mineral and Amino acid premix, cold pressed canola oil, limestone, lysine, di-calcium phosphate, magnesium oxide, salt, Agrimos® Prebiotic and Yea-Sacc® Probiotic.
Nutrient Analysis (as fed)
| Energy DE | MJ/kg | 12 |
| Protein | % | 24 |
| Fat | % | 9.8 |
| Fibre | % | 19 |
| Salt | % | 1.0 |
| Starch | % | 1.3 |
| Sugars (ESC) | % | 5.8 |
Nutrient Levels in 1 Kg
Essential Amino Acids
| Lysine | g/kg | 19.8 |
| Methionine | g/kg | 3.9 |
| Leucine | g/kg | 17.6 |
Vitamins and Minerals
| Calcium | g/kg | 10.1 |
| Phosphorous | g/kg | 5.7 |
| Magnesium | g/kg | 3.7 |
| Sodium | g/kg | 4.4 |
| Chloride | g/kg | 8.2 |
| Potassium | g/kg | 11.0 |
| Zinc | mg/kg | 443 |
| Copper | mg/kg | 208 |
| Manganese | mg/kg | 33 |
| Iron | mg/kg | 228 |
| Selenium | mg/kg | 0.7 |
| Iodine | mg/kg | 1.1 |
| Chromium | mg/kg | 3.0 |
| Vitamin A | IU | 45000 |
| Vitamin B1 | mg/kg | 30.8 |
| Vitamin B2 | mg/kg | 10.5 |
| Vitamin B3 | mg/kg | 49.5 |
| Vitamin B5 | mg/kg | 9.5 |
| Biotin (B7) | mg/kg | 24.0 |
| Folate (B9) | mg/kg | 15.0 |
| Vitamin D | IU | 2000 |
| Vitamin E | IU | 207 |
| Agrimos® | mg/kg | 600 |
| Yea-Sacc* | mg/kg | 600 |