LiteBite Horse Muzzle

15/04/2025

V V V IMPORTANT...
It's Perfect Grass Growing Weather... 🌦️
With the weather warming up, but rain also on the horizon, it's the perfect time for grass to grow. Even if your fields aren't looking luscious, the green shoots at the bottom still have a high amount of sugar in them. Reviewing the risk factors now and getting ahead can help to manage the risk of laminitis.

Here's our top tips:

⚠️ Monitor your horse's weight - this can be achieved by using a weighbridge, weigh tape or body fat scoring (find guidance on how to Body Fat Score below!)

⚠️ Restrict grazing & make changes to the diet slowly - consider a strip or track grazing system or the use of a muzzle in the field

⚠️ Soak hay - we recommend soaking for longer periods of time to draw out excess sugar, but be sure to use fresh water each time you soak

⚠️ Increase exercise where possible - ideally cardiovascular exercise (e.g. working for longer periods of time not at maximum speed such as trotting). Download our FREE exercise tracker to help monitor your horse's exercise regime more closely

⚠️ Choose a low calorie diet - we recommend a balancer such as Essential Balancer or Shape-Up™, DO NOT cut out hard feed and always ensure your feed is fully fortified

Spot The Signs: Laminitis
⚠️ Lameness in one or more limbs
⚠️ Reluctance to walk or turn, particularly on hard ground
⚠️ Shifting weight between feet when resting
⚠️ Increased digital pulses
⚠️ Abnormal heat in the hoof

If you suspect your horse may have laminitis, call your vet immediately for advice.

For support with weight management & nutrition advice for laminitis prone horses, please call the Saracen nutrition helpline or complete a Feed Advice Form.

☎️ 01622 718487
📲 https://bit.ly/SaracenFeedAdvice
How To: Body Fat Score
Body Fat Scoring is a quick and convenient way of objectively evaluating your horse's condition. We recommend getting hands on to achieve an accurate assessment and scoring regularly to monitor changes, particularly in the Spring.

If you require further support, please don't hesitate to get in touch. We're here to help your horses and ponies through all of the seasons.

The Saracen Balancer Range

SHAPE-UP™
Good-Doers & native breeds
Horses and ponies that require a low calorie feed
Horses and ponies that may have an increased risk of metabolic issues

💷 RRP: £24.49
📈 Feeding Rate: 200g per 100kg of bodyweight
📆 A 20kg bag will feed a 500kg horse for 20 days

ESSENTIAL BALANCER
Good-Doers requiring a low calorie diet
Horses with natural energy
Feeding alongside forage only rations

💷 RRP: £35.49
📈 Feeding Rate: 100g per 100kg of bodyweight
📆 A 20kg bag will feed a 500kg horse for 40 days

VETERAN BALANCER
Horses & ponies at rest or in light to medium work who require a low calorie, low starch and low sugar diet
Those that are 'good doers' but also more at risk of metabolic disease such as laminitis or EMS
Horses & ponies who are not in work but are good doers

💷 RRP: £25.99
📈 Feeding Rate: 200g per 100kg of bodyweight
📆 A 20kg bag will feed a 500kg horse for 20 days

COMPETITION-FIT-BALANCER
Competition horses & ponies in moderate to hard work
Competition horses & ponies that are good doers
Competition horses & ponies with limited appetites
Horses & ponies prone to Equine Gastric Ulcer Syndrome

💷 RRP: £35.49
📈 Feeding Rate: 100g per 100kg of bodyweight
📆 A 20kg bag will feed a 500kg horse for 40 days
Explore The Balancer Range
HERE TO HELP

If you are looking for specific feeding advice for your horse or pony please do get in contact with a member of our nutritional team:

📲 Fill out our FEED ADVICE FORM
☎ Call 01622 718487
📩 Email [email protected]
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Tailored nutrition for your horse

07/04/2025

Lovely

31/03/2025

Horses hate feeling confined, the LiteBite Horse Muzzle is open and airy, keep your fatty safe from spring grass and laminitis. On offer at the moment.
www.litebitehorsemuzzle.com take a look.

29/03/2025

Does your horse eat out of the sides of his grazing muzzle? The LiteBite Horse Muzzle will stop him, completely adjustable and special grazing slot, not a little round hole. Teeth soft and flexible. Take a look, see what you think and protect your pony from too much sugar and Laminitis.
www.litebitehorsemuzzle.com

28/03/2025

The LiteBite Horse Muzzle has tons of air

27/03/2025

This story is hard love for the sake of your horse. I can absolutely relate to the keeping two ponies bit.

702 reasons to NOT “bring your horse home”…
1.) horses are not meant to live by themselves, so having one by itself rarely ever works. If you have two they get so buddy sour you can’t do something with one without the other going nuts. Three is also inconvenient and gives few options for mixing pairs and preventing issues. So four is really the bare minimum to keep together
2.) Feeding twice a day is a minimum- even if they have access to hay/grass, plenty of water, and get no grain, you need eyes on them absolutely twice a day minimum. What if they are injured? Or a bird drowned in the water tank and it’s hot and the water is now full of bacteria?
3.) Horse care takes way more time than you think. If you think you’re going to save time by not having to drive to the barn, then I know how naïve you are on how much time it’s going to take to care for your own horse at home.
4.) Ever try self board?? Yay! That’s an adorable start, but you ain’t the one fixing fence, hauling out the manure pile, probably not ordering hay, and you ain’t making the tractor payment (doing maintenance on the tractor)
5.) think it’s gonna be cheaper??? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 it’s not. I promise it’s not. Most boarding barns actually subsidize the cost per horse, and they are buying in bulk. Keeping one horse is way more expensive than keeping 20 when you look at the cost per horse.
6.) Do you like having ANY amenities???? stalls if a horse hurts themself, or it’s freezing rain for a week? A hot water wash bay? Or even just an area with lights so that you can even see your horse in the winter?
7.) Do you think you’re just gonna ride out in the pasture? Because that only works for about a month until you tear it up so bad that the footing is absolutely dangerous.
I guess it would work if you only ride twice a month during perfect weather days. Not only does a small basic outdoor arena cost about $30,000, but you absolutely need a tractor and a good quality arena rake if you want to maintain it.
8.) Did I mention Tractor payment? Small tractors that can barely do the job are dangerous. Get more tractor than you think need.
9.) Do you ever go away? Kiss that goodbye. Or expect to drop some serious cash on a quality horse sitter. Want to go out in the evening? You’ll need to schedule that around evening chores.
10.) Right now you might love when you get the arena to yourself, but when you are by yourself ALL the time, its easy to lack direction or motivation.
11.) You’ll miss barn culture and riding buddies, and getting away from your spouse for a couple hours. There’s a reason why time flies at the barn!
12.) Mud.
13.) The tens of thousands of dollars you spend trying to get rid of mud, just to have more mud.
14.) have fun dealing with a manure pile on small acreage. It’s not enough to get anyone commercial to haul it out, but way too much to not have a place to go with it. 
15.) Lack of instruction. It’s hard to get an instructor to come to you.
16.) No one to share farm call fees with…
17.) IF you can even get a vet or farrier to come to you!

I know I’m 685 reasons short, but I promise they exist!!!! This is just a start! (And I’m sure others will leave their reasons in the comments.)

24/03/2025

I need this

And what to do instead (Podcast)

15/02/2025

LiteBite Horse Muzzle is now in stock, thank heavens. Can be purchased from USA and Europe now but postage horrendous, £35 sorry. Need a US supplier.

12/02/2025

Litebite muzzles back in stock!

10/02/2025

Litebite Horse Muzzle. Special velcro makes loops to hang from your headcollar, highly adjustable. It's soft and strong.

10/02/2025

Skye modelling the LiteBite Horse Muzzle, she is so good, never minds it.

07/02/2025

Litebite make up

05/02/2025

Spot on

When the buyer asks if the pony is kid safe? Depends on the kid...
📸 Tom Sinnott

03/02/2025

To see what I am dealing with. Skye's opinion when I asked her to be brave and step on to the canvas

02/02/2025

How about this:

A reverse bucket list. What’s a reverse bucket list, you may ask. Well, a regular bucket list is a list of things you’d love to happen, but then you can be disappointed if they don’t. A reverse bucket list is when you have a bucket-list-worthy experience, you then add it to your bucket list after it’s happened. That way you experience no disappointment, and you have gratitude for the amazing thing that happened. It’s all about the gratitude. Signed Warwick Schiller

06/01/2025

So wonderful, he is totally blind if you didn't know