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Easy Keeper - Horse Type
View a list of feeds and supplements targeted to easy keeper horses in Mad Barn’s Equine Feed Database. Compare nutritional profiles and ingredients to choose the best low-calorie products for horses that need to lose weight or breeds that gain weight quickly.
Feeds, Supplements & Products
3:1 Zinc Copper (Mad Barn)
Mad Barn's 3:1 Zinc Copper Powder is an organic trace mineral supplement containing a 3:1 ratio of Bioplex® Zinc and Copper. It is made with zinc and copper proteinates, which are chelated for improved absorption.
AminoTrace+ Vitamin and Mineral Supplement (Mad Barn)
AminoTrace+ by Mad Barn is a complete, balanced equine mineral and vitamin supplement designed for horses with metabolic concerns. It is ideal for horses with IR, PPID, or high iron in the diet.
Jiaogulan (Mad Barn)
Jiaogulan powder supports circulation, muscle function, and respiratory health in horses. Jiaogulan has been shown to increase blood flow to horses' hooves.
MagneChrome (Mad Barn)
MagneChrome from Mad Barn (formerly sold under the name IR Supplement) is a magnesium and chromium supplement for IR Horses. This supplement provides antioxidant and anti-inflammatory support which is critical for horses with metabolic conditions such as insulin resistance, laminitis and Cushing’s Syndrome
Magnesium Oxide (Mad Barn)
Magnesium Oxide is a concentrated source of mineral magnesium that can be added to equine diets. Magnesium supplementation has been shown to have a calming effect in nervous horses, as well as support proper muscle function.
Omneity Premix – Vitamin & Mineral Supplement (Mad Barn)
Omneity Premix is a balanced mineral and vitamin supplement for horses providing 100% organic trace minerals, complete B-vitamin fortification, added Vitamin E, yeast, and digestive enzymes.
Spirulina (Mad Barn)
Spirulina platensis is a blue-green algae that is rich in protein, fatty acids, vitamins, and minerals. Spirulina provides nutritional support for the skin, respiratory function, and immune system in horses.
12% Maintain Horse Pellet (Minor Bros)
12% Maintain Horse Pellet from Minor Bros is a pelleted feed containing 12% crude protein. This feed is intended for easy keepers or horses who are in light to moderate work.
12% Max Performance (Quality Feeds)
12% Max Performance by Quality Feeds is a textured sweet feed intended to support growth and performance in maintenance, light work and breeding horses.
16-10 Liberty (Nature Belisle)
Liberty 16-10 is a vitamin/mineral supplement intended for horses at maintenance or in training, broodmares and growing foals. It contains organic selenium, 16% calcium, and 10% phosphorus.
Achiever-Lite (Daily Dose Equine)
Achiever-Lite by Daily Dose Equine is a textured feed that is intended to be fed as a forage ration balancer for easy keepers. It contains vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and probiotics for proper nutrient absorption.
Alfa-A Lite (Dengie)
Alfa-A Lite is a chopped alfalfa feed. It is intended for working horses and ponies that keep weight easily. Spearmint oil is added to the feed which is meant to improve palatability for picky eaters.
Alfalfa-Oat Hay Cubes (Ontario Dehy Inc.)
Ontario Dehy Alfalfa-Oat Hay Cubes are a consistent forage replacement composed of 50% alfalfa and 50% oat hay. Cubed forages can be used in low-dust diets. This feed can be fed to all horses and ponies.
All Grain Feed (Producer’s Pride)
Producer’s Pride All Grain Feed is a textured feed intended for horses, cattle, sheep or goats. It provides 8% protein and is composed of cracked corn, whole oats, barley and molasses.
Amber Grains Classic 12-4 Fiberwise (Coker Feed Mill)
Amber Grains Classic 12-4 Fiberwise by Coker Feed Mill is a high-fiber (20%) textured feed intended for easy keepers and horses in recovery.
Apple-A-Day Electrolyte (Finish Line Horse Products)
Apple-A-Day is a sugar-free electrolyte supplement formulated with calcium, salt, potassium, magnesium, zinc, and copper. Electrolytes support mineral balance, hydration and exercise recovery.
Balancer Pellet (Advantage Edge)
Balancer Pellet by Advantage Edge is a pelleted ration balancer providing an easy keeper's vitamin and mineral requirements. It can be used to enrich meals consisting entirely of cereal grains.
CFS Horse Chow Checkers ABF (Clarence Farm Services)
CFS Horse Chow Checkers is a pelleted high fibre complete feed targeted to mature, active horses or easy keepers. It contains 12.5% protein, 2% fat, and built-in roughage sources.
Chestnut Chomp (Chestnut Horse Feeds)
Chestnut Chomp from Chestnut Horse Feeds is a high-energy chaff feed. Chestnut Chomp is a blend of chopped grass and grass pellets. This feed is intended for horses who are in light work.
Complete 12% Horse Feed (Agrimaster)
Complete 12% Horse Feed by Agrimaster is a pelleted feed with an elevated level of fibre, ideal for overweight horses and easy keepers. It contains grain products, plant protein products, and processed grain by-products.
Convalescent Muesli (Dodson & Horrell)
Convalescent Muesli by Dodson & Horrell is intended for horses and ponies at rest or in recovery. It contains yeast to support digestion and gut health and QLC antioxidants for immune support.
Cool Feed (McMillan Equine Feeds)
Cool Feed by McMillan Equine Feeds is a high fibre (16%) feed intended to support overall health in horses and ponies in light to medium work.
Cool Mix (Havens Horsefeed)
Cool Mix by Havens Horsefeed is an alfalfa-based muesli feed with slow-releasing energy content for nervous horses. It contains several grains, soybean hulls, and added vitamins and minerals.
Daily 35% (Equis Feed)
Daily 35% by Equis Feeds is a pelleted ration balancer containing 35% protein that can be fed alone or in combination with other feeds. This highly fortified concentrate has an average feeding rate of 1-1.5 lbs per day.
Daily Vitamins and Minerals (Dodson & Horrell)
Daily Vitamins and Minerals from Dodson & Horrell is intended for use in leisure and easy keeper horses and ponies. This supplement provides a complete range of vitamins and minerals to balance the horse's diet.
EasiGoing (Pryde’s EasiFeed)
EasiGoing by Pryde's EasiFeed is a complete feed in extruded cube form. It is intended for easy keepers and horses needing cool energy.
EasiKeeper (Pryde’s EasiFeed)
EasiKeeper by Pryde's EasiFeed is a low sugar (6.7%) vitamin and mineral balancer intended for horses prone to laminitis, and horses and ponies with weight control issues.
Easy Cube (Masterfeeds)
Easy Cube from Masterfeeds is a hay balancer with 12% protein, designed for easy keepers. It contains vitamins, minerals, and can be fed to pregnant mares.
Easy Go Cubes (Gain Equine Nutrition)
Easy Go Cubes is a pelleted feed intended for overweight horses, easy keepers, and horses starting training programs. It is meant to provide moderate energy while having a lower starch inclusion.
Easy Keeper (Woody’s Horse Nutrition)
Woody’s Easy Keeper is a complete pelleted feed with lower energy density intended for horses at maintenance or horses that need to lose weight. It contains 10.5% NSC and 5% fat.
Elements (ProElite)
Elements by Pro Elite is a powdered supplement that provides essential vitamins, minerals, and amino acids for horses on a forage-only diet.
Empower® Topline Balance® Ration Balancer (Nutrena)
Nutrena Empower® Topline Balance® is a concentrated ration balancer to support topline and provide common nutrients lacking in forage. It contains 30% crude protein with added limiting amino acids.
Energized Maintenance (Bluebonnet Feeds)
Energized Maintenance from Bluebonnet Feeds is a pelleted feed intended for maintenance horses at all life stages. This feed contains 14% crude protein, 5% crude fat, and 12% crude fibre.
Engage Cool Calorie Base (Pink Rose Organix)
Engage Cool Calorie Base by Pink Rose Organix is a complete feed designed for adult horses in light to moderate work. It is classified as a low NSC feed and suitable for easy keepers.
Equi Balancer (Heygates Feeds)
Equi Balancer is a low calorie high protein ration balancer. It is intended for easy keepers, overweight horses, and those prone to laminitis. It contains 25% protein, 5% fat, and 9% fibre.
Equibalance (Pegasus)
Equibalance from Pegasus is a pelleted ration balancer that is intended for performance or for easy keeper horses and ponies. This ration balancer is oat free and contains essential proteins, fats, nutrients, vitamins, and minerals in a concentrated form.
Equine Adult® Horse Feed (Purina Mills)
Purina Equine Adult Horse Feed is a pelleted feed for horses at maintenance, light work, or broodmares in early gestation. It provides 11% crude protein, 3% fat, and 25% fiber.
EquiTub (Purina)
Purina® EquiTub® with ClariFly® Larvicide is a free-choice ration balancer in a tub format with added ingredients to support fly control. EquiTub is designed for mature horses on pasture or drylot.
Essential Balancer (Saracen Horse Feeds)
Saracen Essential Balancer is a complete pelleted ration formulated for horses in light work and needs a low-calorie diet. It contains low levels of sugars and starch.
Excel Equine 10 (Excel Equine Feeds)
Excel Equine 10 is a textured feed from Excel Equine Feeds. This feed is intended for horses in low to moderate work, as well as mature horses.
Fire-Fighter Non-GMO (Daily Dose Equine)
Fire-Fighter Non-GMO by Daily Dose Equine is a low NSC (10%) forage balancer intended for picky eaters needing to lose weight and horses with sensitive stomachs.
Grand Slam (Equi-lete)
Grand Slam by Equi-lete is a pelleted ration balancer intended for easy keepers and horses on forage-based diets.
GRO ‘N WIN Ration Balancer (BUCKEYE Nutrition)
Gro 'N Win is the original Buckeye Nutrition ration balancer that supplies minerals, vitamins and protein. It contains 13% NSC and 32% protein from sources such as soybean meal and alfalfa meal.
GRO ‘N WIN™ ALFA Ration Balancer (BUCKEYE Nutrition)
Gro 'N Win Alfa is a Buckeye ration balancer formulated with lower calcium to balance equine diets containing over 75% alfalfa hay. It is designed to provide minerals, vitamins, and proteins and has 18% NSC.
Happy Hoof Molasses Free (Spillers Feeds)
Happy Hoofs Molasses free from Spillers feed is low in sugar and high in fiber. This feed is intended for easy keepers and horses and ponies prone to laminitis.
Hay Cobs (Thunderbrook)
Hay Cobs from Thunderbrook is a high-fibre, foraged-based feed. Hay Cobs is intended for horses with digestive issues. This feed is low NSC (9.6%) and contains 20.6% crude fibre.
Hay Stretcher (Producer’s Pride)
Producer’s Pride Hay Stretcher is an alfalfa-based pelleted feed intended for horses, cattle, sheep and goats. It provides 12% protein and includes peanut hulls, wheat middlings, soybean hulls and molasses.
Healthy Herbal Chaff (Thunderbrook)
Healthy Herbal Chaff from Thunderbrook is made from dried, chopped meadow grass. Healthy Herbal Chaff contains 12.6% crude protein and 2.6% fat. This feed is intended to encourage horses to chew slowly.
Healthy Hooves (Dengie)
Healthy Hooves is a chopped and pellet mixed feed low in sugar and starch. It is ideal for horses and ponies in light work, easy keepers, and those prone to laminitis. This feed contains added biotin to support hoof health.
Healthy Hooves Molasses Free (Dengie)
Healthy Hooves Molasses Free is a chopped and pellets mix feed that is low in starch and sugar. It is ideal for easy keepers, horses and ponies in light works, and those prone to laminitis.
Hesta Mix Light Energy (St.Hippolyt)
Hesta Mix Light Energy by St.Hippolyt is a low energy feed intended for special breed horses, ponies or easy keepers.
Hi-Fi Lite (Dengie)
Hi-Fi Lite from Dengie is a low-calorie chopped straw feed. It is intended for easy keepers, horses and ponies in light work, and those prone to laminitis. Hi-Fi Lite has 10% protein and an NSC content of 8.5%.
High Energy Horse & Mule (Bryant Grain)
High Energy Horse & Mule from Bryant Grain contains a blend of grains intended for mature horses and easy keepers. This feed is intended to add energy to a horse's diet.
High Fibre Mash (TopSpec)
High Fibre Mash from TopSpec is an ideal feed for easy keepers and seniors who have difficulty chewing. This mash is intended to be soaked before feeding, which supports hydration and gut health.
High Fibre Pellets (Ritchie Smith – Harmony)
High Fibre Pellets from Ritchie Smith's Harmony is a low NSC feed intended for easy keepers or horses who have metabolic issues. This feed is 13% crude protein and 5% fat.
High Step (Equi-lete)
High Step by Equi-lete is a vitamin and mineral supplement intended to support overall health in pleasure horses, easy keepers and non-performance horses.
Horse & Mule (West Feeds)
Horse & Mule by West Feeds is a feed meant for your pasture pals, with a lower amount of protein of 10% and a high amount of fibre of 20%. This feed includes ingredients such as molasses and vegetable oil to increase palatability.



















