EquiMetaBalance | Good Doer & Native Support
For the ones who keep a waistline on winter air.
Some horses need help holding condition. Yours is not one of them. The good doers, the natives, the ponies bred for windswept hillsides — they thrive on remarkably little, and feeding them well is a careful, deliberate business. EquiMetaBalance was formulated for exactly these horses and ponies: a synergistic blend of botanicals and minerals that supports normal metabolism and slots into a forage-first, tightly managed ration without adding the sugars, starches or fillers you're working so hard to keep out.
✓ Formulated for good doers, natives and ponies
✓ Supports normal metabolism & immune system, as part of a balanced ration
✓ No added sugars, starches or fillers — fits a controlled, forage-first diet
✓ Human-grade, TGA-listed ingredients · HACCP-certified · Feedsafe accredited
From 67p a day for ponies.
Composition
Astragalus root, ashwagandha root, cinnamon bark, fenugreek seed, ginger root, Rhodiola rosea root, aloe vera, Saccharomyces cerevisiae (live yeast), L-tyrosine, chromium, magnesium phosphate, Palatinose™.
Herb extracts
Astragalus root extract10:1
Ashwagandha root extract10:1
Cinnamon bark extract10:1
Fenugreek seed extract10:1
Ginger root extract10:1
Rhodiola rosea root extract10:1
Aloe vera200:1
Added minerals & amino acids (per kg)
Magnesium150 mg
L-tyrosine1,500 mg
Chromium included in the composition
Analytical constituents
Crude protein 3.4% · Crude oils and fats 2.5% · Crude fibre 47% · Crude ash 0.01%
Supports normal metabolism — for the good doers, natives and ponies who thrive on remarkably
little.
- Grazing is restricted: muzzle, track, or bare paddock
- The ration is forage-first and carefully weighed
- Micronutrients need to arrive without calories
- The management plan is built and this is the nutritional layer
(1 Spoon = 15g)
RATE PER DAY (MAINTENANCE)
300kg - 10g
500kg - 20g
600+ kg - 30g
Orders are picked and sent quickly - order before 1pm (Monday to Friday) and it will ship the same day via next day delivery (Monday - Saturday). With free UK shipping over £100.
Orders placed after 1pm on Friday will be shipped the following Monday.
UK delivery is £3.50, and free on orders over £100
What is EquiMetaBalance?
Bred for mountains, living in meadows
Highlands, Welshies, Shetlands, Dartmoors, the cobs and the crossbreds — Britain's natives were shaped by country that fed them meanly and worked them hard. Their metabolisms are magnificently thrifty: built to winter on heather and come out the other side in respectable shape. Then we moved them onto lush paddocks sown for cattle and dairy herds, cut their daily mileage to a fraction, and wondered why the waistline flourished. A good doer isn't doing anything wrong — he's doing exactly what he was bred to do, in a landscape that changed around him.
Management first — always
Nobody manages a good doer with a scoop of anything, and we won't pretend otherwise. The real work is the routine you're probably already running: weighed hay (soaked when the analysis calls for it), restricted or muzzled grazing when the spring grass gets silly, a track or a companion to keep everyone moving, and honest condition checks with your hands as well as your eyes. That's the programme — no supplement replaces it. If you'd like help putting the routine together, our nutrition advice team does exactly that every day, free.
Where EquiMetaBalance fits
When you're weighing hay and reading every label twice, anything that goes in the bucket has to earn its place. EquiMetaBalance is built to that standard: a concentrated blend of botanicals and minerals that supports normal metabolism, fed by the spoonful in a token feed, with no added sugars, starches or fillers — nothing your carefully controlled ration didn't sign up for. And it's formulated as a synergistic whole, Hi Form's way: every ingredient chosen for how it works with the others, not a hero act with a supporting cast. Human-grade, TGA-listed ingredients, made in our HACCP-certified, Feedsafe-accredited facility in Australia.
For every season of the good-doer year
Good-doer management isn't a January project — it's spring grass, autumn flush, the great winter rug audit, year after year. EquiMetaBalance is designed for long-term daily feeding as part of the normal ration, through every season of that calendar, and it sits comfortably alongside restricted grazing and forage-only diets. Plenty of customers feed it with Oxydane or LeisureVit as the daily foundation — the range is designed to share a bucket.
What it does
Tap any benefit for the detail.
In a category fond of big promises, ours is deliberately modest: EquiMetaBalance supports normal metabolism in healthy horses and ponies, as part of a balanced, carefully managed diet. That's the claim and that's the lane — because the rest of the job belongs to forage, management and movement, and no honest label says otherwise.
A controlled diet is built on what you leave out. EquiMetaBalance is designed to respect that: no added sugars, no starches, no bulking agents — so it can sit inside a strict, forage-based ration without upsetting the arithmetic you've worked so hard on.
Astragalus, aloe vera, ashwagandha, rhodiola, fenugreek, cinnamon and ginger — seven botanicals with centuries of traditional use across Chinese, Ayurvedic and European practice — alongside an amino acid, two minerals and a carefully chosen carrier, all working as one formula. Hi Form has formulated this way since 1990: the recipe is the ingredient.
Good doers don't get buckets of hard feed, and EquiMetaBalance doesn't need one. Ten to thirty grams a day — a couple of spoons in a handful of low-sugar chaff, slightly damp — and the job's done. Nothing your feed plan will even notice.
The good-doer routine changes with the seasons but never stops, and neither should the consistency. EquiMetaBalance is designed for daily feeding as part of the normal ration, season after season — including for ponies at rest or turned away.
Feeding the ones who live on air is genuinely harder than feeding the ones who don't. Our free nutrition advice team helps owners build the whole routine — forage, grazing, movement, and where (or whether) EquiMetaBalance fits. Even when the honest answer is 'your management is already doing the job'.
What's Inside?
Key bio-available ingredients
AstragalusA root with many centuries of use in traditional Chinese practice, where it ranks among the most prized herbs of all. One of seven botanicals chosen to work as a team, not a solo act.
AshwagandhaA cornerstone of Ayurvedic tradition for more than two thousand years. The name is Sanskrit; the pedigree is real.
RhodiolaThe golden root of northern folk tradition — gathered from mountain and tundra country, herbal practice from the coldest places on earth.
Fenugreek seedAn old feed-room friend, fed to horses since antiquity — and the reason fussy ponies finish the bucket. It would earn its place on palatability alone.
CinnamonBark of a tree cultivated for thousands of years — as at home in traditional practice as it is in the kitchen.
GingerThe kitchen-cupboard classic, with as long a traditional pedigree as any botanical we use.
L-TyrosineAn amino acid — one of the protein building blocks — included in its pure, human-grade form.
MagnesiumThe everyday macromineral no ration should run short of — a staple of well-managed feeding everywhere.
ChromiumA trace mineral present in ordinary diets in tiny amounts, included here at a measured, declared level.
PalatinoseThe carrier that binds the formula — chosen, like everything else in this tub, with its audience firmly in mind.Small scoop, serious formula
Mix well into slightly damp feed.
Not sure which rate fits your horse? Ask our free nutrition advice team.
When does my horse need EquiMetaBalance in their bucket?
The moments it was made for...
- Yours is the pony who thrives on air and strong opinions
- Grazing is restricted — muzzle, track system, or the bare paddock
- A native doing native things on remarkably little
- The ration is forage-first and carefully weighed, and the micronutrients need to arrive withoutcalories
- Our advice team has helped you build the management plan and this is the nutritional layer
What it actually costs
From 67p a day for ponies. At the 10g rate, a 1kg tub lasts 100 days — three months and change for less than the price of a weekly coffee.
A 500kg horse at 20g a day is £1.34 — and a 1kg tub is 50 days. Larger yards and bigger horses can step up to the 2kg or 5kg tubs.
Could we make it cheaper? Only by putting less in — and a formula built for animals who eat almost nothing has no room for padding. Everything in the tub is there to work.
SUBSCRIBE & SAVE
The routine, on rails
Good-doer management is a long game, and the supplement should be the easy part of it. A fresh pouch arrives monthly — made in our just-in-time batches, never warehouse-aged — with £2 delivery per pouch, and you can swap, pause or cancel whenever you like. One less thing to think about between hay soaks.
FAQs
We are always available to chat through your queries and questions. Just drop us a message or give us a call!
Your vet leads, always. EquiMetaBalance is a complementary feed supplement for maintaining normal health in healthy horses and ponies — it isn't a medicine, and it isn't a substitute for veterinary care or for the management your vet has advised. If your vet is happy for you to add a supplement, our free nutrition advice team will help it fit alongside the plan.
It's formulated with no added sugars, starches or fillers, so it can sit inside a strictly controlled, forage-based ration. If you're counting every gram — many of our customers are — ask us for the current analysis. We'd rather you checked than guessed.
Alongside, not instead. The soaking, the muzzle, the movement — that's the programme, and it's doing the real work. EquiMetaBalance adds a spoonful of concentrated botanical and mineral support for normal metabolism, in a form that doesn't put sugars or starches back into a diet you've carefully taken them out of.
A token handful of low-sugar chaff, slightly dampened, carries it perfectly. Most ponies have finished before they've thought to object. The fenugreek helps.
Yes — the range is designed to combine. Plenty of good doers have EquiMetaBalance alongside a daily foundation: Oxydane for horses in work, LeisureVit for the lighter life. If you're unsure what a sensible bucket looks like for a native on rations, ask the free nutrition advice team — it's a question they answer daily.
Formulated with clean sport in mind, made in a HACCP-certified, Feedsafe-accredited facility with batch traceability. Plenty of good doers do their best work in the ring — see our Clean Sport page for the full picture.
QUALITY YOU CAN TRUST.
