Bizzy Horse Bizzy Lick Refill – Apple, 1kgThis is the 1kg apple lick that drops into the Bizzy Ball, the hard plastic stable toy a horse noses around the box to get at the lick inside. The ball turns a lick from something a horse hoovers up in an evening into something it has to work at, which is the entire point when a horse is stabled, box-rested or standing in over winter.Bizzy Horse make the refills in several flavours and suggest changing flavour to keep a horse interested, which is sensible — a toy a horse has solved stops being enrichment. Apple is the usual starting point. The lick is sold on its own here, so you need the Bizzy Ball to use it.Performance & Benefits A 1kg lick refill sized for the Bizzy Ball. Apple flavoured, the most widely accepted of the Bizzy Horse flavours. Turns a lick into an activity: the horse has to move the ball to get at it. Refilling the existing ball costs less and wastes less plastic than buying a new toy. Bizzy Horse suggest swapping flavours between refills so the toy stays interesting. Suitable For Stabled horses and ponies, particularly on long winter nights. Horses on box rest, where boredom is the hardest part of the job. Horses with stable vices such as weaving, box walking or door banging. Travelling and time spent at shows waiting between classes. Only usable with the Bizzy Ball — this is a refill, not a standalone lick, and there is no holder in the pack. Feeding Drop the refill into the Bizzy Ball following the instructions that came with the ball. Put the ball on the floor of a clean, bedded box rather than hanging it. Offer it for a few hours at a time rather than leaving it down permanently, so it keeps its novelty and the intake stays controlled. Take the ball up and rinse it when the lick is finished. Fresh water and forage at all times alongside. Composition & Analysis Bizzy Horse publish no composition and no analytical constituents for the Bizzy Lick refills on their own website, so none is stated here. No sugar, starch, molasses or calorie figure is published either. The declaration on the pack is the only source. Refill weight 1kg, as given by Bizzy Horse. Bizzy Horse sell the refill as Bizzy Lick Apple; it is listed here under the Bizzy Bites name the ball is sold as. Care & Caution Because Bizzy Horse publish no sugar or starch figure, check the pack declaration before giving this to a laminitic, insulin-resistant or Cushing's horse, or to a pony on a restricted diet. Licks of this type are usually sugar-based. Use it in the Bizzy Ball, not loose on the floor, where a horse can break lumps off and bolt them. Check the ball each time for cracks or sharp edges and stop using it if it splits. Take the ball out of a box shared with a horse that guards food, and out of a field where several horses could squabble over it.
