As the days are shorter and temperatures drop, winter brings new challenges for horse owners. Grazing diminishes, stabling increases, and your horse’s diet needs to adapt to keep them healthy, happy, and active.
With the right nutrition and care, you can support your horse through colder, wetter months and maintain their wellbeing all season long. Find your nearest Horslyx stockist today to ensure your horse continues to receive the essential vitamins, minerals, and nutrients they need, even when grass quality declines.
1. Keep Your Horse’s Diet Balanced
When grazing quality drops, nutritional gaps can appear. Vitamins, minerals, and trace elements found in lush summer grass become less available in winter forage.
Horslyx Balancers provide a convenient way to ensure your horse receives essential nutrients daily. Each lick offers a balanced blend designed to complement forage and concentrate diets, supporting overall health, vitality, and condition all year round.
Horslyx Balancers provide a convenient way to ensure your horse receives essential nutrients daily. Designed to balance out a forage based diet or top up low feed intake diets, Horslyx Balancers provide a consistent source of nutrition for health and vitality.
2. Support Healthy Joints During Cold, Damp Weather
Cold, wet conditions can make it harder for horses to stay comfortable, especially older or active horses in regular work.
Horslyx Mobility Balancer includes Glucosamine HCl, MSM, Omega-3 oils, antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals to support healthy joint function. This can help maintain mobility, flexibility, and ease of movement throughout winter, whether your horse is competing or enjoying light exercise.
3. Maintain a Healthy Respiratory System
Increased time indoors often means more exposure to dust and spores from hay, bedding, and enclosed environments.
Horslyx Respiratory Balancer combines natural ingredients like menthol, eucalyptus, and aniseed to help support clear airways, while its high-specification nutritional package supports general health and immunity. Perfect for horses spending more time stabled in winter.
4. Encourage Natural Foraging Behaviour
Horses are natural grazers, designed to eat little and often. Limited turnout can lead to boredom and frustration.
The licking action of Horslyx Balancers encourages a slow, steady intake, mimicking natural grazing behaviour. This keeps your horse content while supporting healthy feeding patterns aligned with their natural dietary needs.
5. Don’t Forget Pre- and Post-Ride Care
Cold weather makes warming up and cooling down properly even more crucial for muscle flexibility and reducing stiffness.
Mini Horslyx are perfect for encouraging stretching before and after riding. Small, portable, and rewarding, they promote gentle movement and help establish positive winter routines for your horse.
Understanding Sugar in Horslyx
All horses need sugar as a natural source of energy. Horslyx Balancers contain controlled sugar levels within a balanced nutrient blend to support steady, consistent intake.
Example:
• 500 kg horse grazing 50 kg of fresh grass = 2000 g sugar
• 500 kg horse consuming 10 kg of hay =1000 g sugar
• 500 kg horse eating 250 g of Horslyx daily = 82.5 g sugar
Weighing your forage is an important part of understanding fibre, protein and calorie intake. Different bales or flakes within a bale will be variable. We recommend weighing your forage daily.
Horses adapt to Horslyx very easily and soon settle into a regular intake pattern. If you have any concerns over intake we recommend extending the introductory period, gradually building access to help you horse adapt and settle into a good feeding patter. Find more feeding advice here How to Feed Horslyx
In Summary
Winter brings challenges for horse owners, but with thoughtful nutrition and the right support, your horse can stay happy, healthy, and active all season long.
From joint support to respiratory care and overall wellbeing, there’s a Horslyx Balancer to suit every horse and Mini Horslyx make daily stretches more rewarding.
Find your nearest stockist and shop Horslyx products today at horslyx.com/stockist
