Brandt’s Mill
Kentucky Equine Research Balance Partner
Founding Member
Brandt’s Mill
For over 75 years Brandt’s Mill has been in business, family owned and operated. They strive to bring the best equine nutrition and pet supplies to the Lebanon area of Pennsylvania.
Brandt’s Mill is a single-species mill developing only equine feed. They partnered with Kentucky Equine Research in 1988 to help produce the highest quality formulas of horse feed for each stage of the horse’s life cycle. Providing horses with proper nutrition will help ensure that horse owners and trainers obtain optimal performance from their equine investments. Whether your horse is sprinting around the race track or has a foal by their side, nutrition plays a huge role in the end result. Brandt’s Mill products are formulated by Kentucky Equine Research using the most current science in equine nutrition.
Balance Partners are companies that have made a commitment to offer correctly fortified feeds for horses across their line of equine feeds. They use industry-leading micronutrient ingredients at the appropriate levels to correctly fortify your horse’s diet. Through their partnership with the World Leaders in Equine Nutrition, Brandt’s Mill stays up-to-date on the latest in research and ingredient technology.
The following Brandt’s Mill products are certified by Kentucky Equine Research to be appropriately formulated and correctly fortified to meet the nutrient requirements of the type of horse described when fed according to label instructions.
Textured feeds
Brandt’s Best 10%
Best 10% is a highly fortified textured sweet feed that is low in protein. This feed is designed for mature horses in training. The primary ingredients are corn, oats, barley, molasses, and 25% KER Pellets. This combination of ingredients provides a palatable, consistent, and completely fortified feed.
Brandt’s Best 12.5%
Best 12.5% is designed for mature horses in training and helps maintain body condition and critical energy stores. This feed meets the protein, vitamin, and mineral requirements of equine athletes in various types and intensities of training. The primary ingredients are corn, oats, molasses, and Brandt’s protein, vitamin, and mineral mixing pellet. Best 12.5% is highly palatable and consistent, and ensures peak performance.
Brandt’s Best 14%
Best 14% is a multipurpose formula appropriate for pregnant mares, lactating mares, yearlings, and horses in training. Quality cereal grains are blended with a protein pellet, special high-energy pellet, and molasses to deliver a highly palatable textured feed.
Brandt’s Best Performance Horse Formula
Best Performance is a great source of energy for performance horses that compete in eventing, competitive trail rides, and endurance races. Energy is derived from high-fat and high-fiber ingredients such as soybean oil, beet pulp, soy hulls, and alfalfa meal.
Hi-Fi-Vi Complete Horse Feed
Hi-Fi-Vi is a highly digestible feed made with quality fiber sources. When hay and pasture are limited or of poor quality, Hi-Fi-Vi can add beneficial fiber to any diet. Beet pulp is a source of readily fermentable fiber, which helps maintain fluid balance and constant energy production in working horses.
Brandt’s Senior Horse Formula
Senior Horse Formula is created specifically for aged horses. Senior Horse Formula is made with highly digestible fiber sources and grains that have undergone processing techniques designed to make nutrients more readily available to older horses. This textured feed is completely fortified with the vitamins and minerals necessary to keep senior horses in top condition.
Brandt’s Best 12/10 Textured Horse Feed
Best 12/10 is an economical high-fat textured feed with palatable ingredients. This formula is suitable for pleasure or performance horses. Best 12/10 is made with quality oats, corn, barley, and extruded soybean meal and is fully fortified with micronutrients.
Brandt’s Best Lite
Best Lite is a highly palatable textured low-intake feed for horses or ponies that do not need the extra calories provided by other fortified feeds. Best Lite contains concentrated micronutrients to provide a balanced diet with less feed. This formula is suitable for easy-keeping pleasure and performance horses or ponies and offers high levels of biotin for coat and hoof health.
Pelleted feeds
Best-Pell 12
Best Pell 12% is appropriate for mature horses in light, moderate, or intense training. This formula contains quality grains and highly digestible fiber sources in a palatable, consistent, and completely fortified pelleted feed.
Best-Pell 12/8
Best Pell 12/8 is a high-fat pelleted feed made with additional digestible fiber sources to meet the increased energy demands of the sport horse. Formulated for horses in moderate or intense training, or horses that need more calories to maintain body condition.
Best-Pell 14
Best Pell 14% is a multipurpose formula appropriate for growth, breeding, and training. Ingredients in Best Pell 14% include high-quality cereal grains, highly digestible fiber sources, and protein sources containing critical amino acids.
Brandt’s Equine Geriatric Horse Formula
Energy-dense ingredients, increased fortification, highly digestible fiber sources, and the addition of yeast culture provide a formula that helps older horses maintain body condition and improves digestive function. The pelleted form is especially appropriate for horses with poor teeth or those that are prone to waste feed.
Equine Science Formula – Phase Feeding Program
Phase II – Broodmare and Yearling
Textured feed that meets the nutritional needs of yearlings, pregnant mares, and lactating mares. This feed contains high-quality protein that provides essential amino acids, and key minerals necessary for growth and development.
Phase III – Performance
Scientifically formulated performance horse feed that specifically addresses energy substrate availability and muscle metabolism in the equine athlete. The mineral, protein, yeast culture, and vitamin levels in Phase III ensure peak performance and meet the micronutrient requirements of the horse in intense training.
KER Balancer Pellet
These pellets are designed as a supplement for foals, weanlings, yearlings, pregnant mares, breeding stallions, and performance horses. KER Balancer acts as a low-calorie, concentrated source of protein, vitamins and minerals to balance the diet.
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The KER Micronutrient Difference
A premix is a blend of micronutrients, primarily vitamins and minerals, which are not found in sufficient quantity in typical feed ingredients. A premix is added to commercial feeds to balance the vitamin and mineral profile. The highest quality premixes contain ingredients that have the greatest bioavailability to horses, and therefore do the most to support vital body processes.
Premixes allow manufacturers to evenly combine nutrients in large batches of feed. Certain vitamins and minerals must be included in feeds in minuscule measures. It is advantageous to blend these with ingredients added in larger quantities, so they do not clump and concentrate in one part of a mixture.
KER premixes are sourced from industry-leading manufacturers who adhere to the highest international standards of quality control.
Feeds that are properly fortified using KER micronutrients will meet or exceed the Kentucky Equine Research guidelines for nutrient requirements. These guidelines were developed through decades of research and are intended to supply horses with the optimum level of nutrients required for health and performance, not the minimum.
Use our MicroSteed™ online wizard to see how KER micronutrients contribute to a horse’s overall balanced ration.