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Location: Bandera, TX | Please share with me your feeding programs. I feel as though Iv'e been wrapped up in all the hoopla of feeding trends.
We had more than a few horses when I was growing up and everything was kept simple. I can't say that any more but I do want to get back to simple! |
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 Bulls Eye
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Location: Oklahoma | I feed berbumda hay. My horses get SafeChoice original. My supplements are all Adeptus products. I feed the Invigor and Augment. I also feed electrolytes. Mine is simple and my horses look great. |
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  Northern Chocolate Queen
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Location: ND | I've got 14 horses & try to keep it really simple & affordable. Almost all my horses are on grass/alfalfa mix hay with access to loose salt & mineral, they get nothing else. My 2 old broodmares get a mix of oats, corn, alfalfa & beet pulp along with THE Daily Edge....grain 2x a day, supplement 1x. The yearling gets the same grain mix as the mares, no supplements, 1x a day. And my old laminitic gelding gets a local made pellet that works well for him along with THE JointPlus, 1x a day. |
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 Underestimated Underdog
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Location: Minnesota | All three of mine are on a round bale during turnout, square bale flakes at night, ADM SeniorGlo one time a day(varied amount depending on the horse) and Aloe Vera juice. Nice and simple. The only thing that is different between the horses is their hoove care. |
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 Coyote Country Queen
Posts: 5666
| We feed alfalfa and a small amount of sweet feed. We were getting grain from a local feed mill, but recently switched to Omolene 200 because it's easier for us to get. They all have trace mineral blocks in their stalls. The young horses (2 years and under) get Omolene 300. We do have a couple that get Strategy.
If we don't need them gathered, they stay out in the pasture, where we keep trace mineral blocks and protein tubs available.
I feel like a good worming program is also very important. Horses in the pasture get wormed less than horses that are stalled, and babies get wormed a little more frequently. We also rotate our wormers.
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 Elite Veteran
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Location: Central California | I changed everything up here about 45 days ago. Tired of loosing hay to wet weather, alfalfa bails that were not consistant and just plain a pain to feed. I also have one horse that is IR and another that would eat herself to the point of fatness. The 3 here are doing quite well on this and when the husbands two get home they will go on the same diet!
10lbs per feeding Alfalfa Cubes
Am feeding they get a good scoop of SafeChoice Special Care
PM feeding they get the same scoop of a complete senior feed called Stable Mix.
Free choice white salt and mineral salt
The only thing I add for the harder keepers is Dac Oil
The cost of this is right at $90 per horse per month.
I have been doing a lot of research and reading feed bag tags lately. Many of those tags have vital information on not adding anything extra, granted I most likely do not feed the recommended amounts. |
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 Namesless in BHW
Posts: 10368
Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | 12% protein-8% fat mixed at mill, bermuda hay and alfalfa. Sweet and simple. Have one on ulcer meds, but that's it on supplements. And we have fat butter balls. |
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 Works Hard For The Money
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Location: Memphis, TN | Mine are on pasture 24/7 but our winter grass is thin so I feed as if there is none. All 4 of mine get the exact same thing.
AM feed- approx. 12 lbs Bermuda grass hay
Mid-day feed- 1/2 lb beet pulp wet down with warm water
PM feed- another 12 lbs Bermuda grass hay, 1.5 lb whole oats, 1.5 lb alfalfa pellets
I keep a Moormans GroStrong block out for free choice.
I keep a scale on hand and measure any feed changes I make. I want to know how much in weight mine are getting. I marked my feed cup with a permanent marker and wrote beet pulp, oats, alfalfa at each mark for a visual.
I have a halter bred, foundation bred, appendix, and Arab/QH. They all are built differently but they each hold weight as they should for their build. |
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Extreme Veteran
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| During the summer mine are on 24/7 pasture. We live in swamp land so they have more then enough grass, even if it gets dry. The horses that are ridden are fed Roasted to Perfection, healthy coat, and equipride.
During the winter they are on a grass round bale 24/7. I feed Roasted to Perfection, Equipride, and Alfalfa pellets. I also put out a free choice Protien tub I get from a local feed store.
They always have a free choice salt block. |
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Veteran
Posts: 294
| My gelding is fed Triple Crown Senior and Tri-Amino. Once pasture comes in I have to switch to Triple Crown 30 because he gets too fat. He comes in at night and gets grass hay. |
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| My vets have always told me to avoid bermuda grass hay because it causes lots of impaction colics. Any truth to this? |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 667
| FLITASTIC - 2013-11-26 3:09 PM
My vets have always told me to avoid bermuda grass hay because it causes lots of impaction colics. Any truth to this?
I have heard the same thing... don't know if its true but I do not feed it |
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Works Hard For The Money
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Location: Memphis, TN | TNcowgirl88 - 2013-11-26 3:48 PM
FLITASTIC - 2013-11-26 3:09 PM
My vets have always told me to avoid bermuda grass hay because it causes lots of impaction colics. Any truth to this?
I have heard the same thing... don't know if its true but I do not feed it
Coastal Bermuda is the one to be wary of. We feed Vaughn Bermuda and Tifton 44 Bermuda is big in our area as well. It's all you'll find around here. If you buy "mixed grass" it is complete junk aka cow hay. I've fed it for as long as I've owned horses (going on 15 years). Hay farmers here have developed high quality Bermuda breeds that do not cause issues like coastal.
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 Money Eating Baggage Owner
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Location: Phoenix | We typically feed an orchard grass mix and a wet COB mix for the winter. I'd like to start them on Renew Gold once I'm back home this spring. My horse doesn't need much to keep his weight amd doesn't require grain. |
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Location: Peg-Leg Julia Grimm | Pasture and local grass hay free choice. Alfalfa 3-5 pounds per day until the last 3 months of gestation. Dry rolled corn, oats and barley 1# to 4# per day depending on the condition of the horse. Vitamin/Mineral supplement as needed. Free choice salt and fresh water. |
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Expert
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| Yep I just changed my feeding plan too. Want to get back to a natural diet. I figure if I eat paleo would probably benefit my horse too. Lol. So I feed orchard alfalfa blend hay and a mix of whole oats, rice bran, and alfalfa pellets. |
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 Blackbelt Babe
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Location: South Georgia Good o'l USA | I'm still old school I guess but I've not found anything better than...Legends, Clovite & Calf Manna for me. |
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Sock Snob
Posts: 3021
| Since my shows are over my adults horses get 1 lb wet beet pulp 2 lb blue seal low starch feed, pm 1lb beet pulp 5 lb wet hay cubes 1 lb blue seal low starch, plus 10 lb hay pm turn out during day, after christmas add 10 lb am. I am thinking i need to,do a ration balancer also. |
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My Heelers are Heroes
Posts: 4685
| ADM PowerGlo, Grow Strong Minerals, Sea Salt, ACV. That's about it. Oh, Burmuda hay. For 5 horses I feed about a bale a day. Bales are mini super squares. lol Larger than a normal square bale but smaller than a normal super square. Make sense? |
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Fire Ant Peddler
Posts: 2881
| I feed a moderately priced regional feed, 14% protein, very low fat (Lonestar SUPERGLO 3). Different size horses get different amounts. Performance horses get Platinum Performance and others get a loose mineral/loose salt. ALL get JIGGS COASTAL HAY.
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I have been feeding horses for 40 years and this works best for me. They all look great and perform well. |
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Expert
Posts: 4766
Location: Bandera, TX | FLITASTIC - 2013-11-26 3:09 PM My vets have always told me to avoid bermuda grass hay because it causes lots of impaction colics. Any truth to this?
There is truth to this if the horse is staying well hydrated. |
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 Ms. Potato Head
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Location: BFE, Idaho | During the slack time of winter, alfalfa/grass mix hay, a basic 3 way molasses mix, and access to two kinds of salt blocks. I have had two different people that have know him all his life and not seen him in a while comment on how awesome he looks. My farrier also said his feet are wonderful.
When he goes back to work and getting ready for the show season, I will add calf manna. That will be it.
My biggie is always fresh clean water in a metal tank, in the winter I do not add a heater until it gets really cold, as the water gets to warm and he does not want to drink as much. Then I turn it on and off instead of full time.
(I do not like plastic tanks, I have tasted the water myself out of both in the summer and winter and the plastic tanks taste yucky)
I tried the name brands and the hoopla for years, I like the way he looks going back to the way my dad fed and I fed for years. |
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Expert
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Location: Bandera, TX | Enjoying reading your comments. 32 years ago I had the horse of a lifetime. He had a simple diet of Crimped Oats, Calf Manna, loose mineral and salt. He was not allowed out to play with others and was kept in his paddock with coastal hay. A true road warrior. No bute, no joint injections, no colic, no bleeding, no stomach issues. Only care he got was rode hard and massage and stretching after his rides. He was competive at a top level-winning for 13 years.
I can't fathom the $ I've sunk into supplements, vitamins, minerals, probiotics and the such in 30 years of trying to have another stellar horse.
The more I learn about soy the more I want to get away from it. I've feed the rice bran supplements and products for about 20+ years on colts so that they would hold weight during training but just can't wrap my head around a diet of something that the horse wouldn't be able to find in his "natural" setting, as the base meal.
I have a cool colt in the barn that I believe will make a super horse. His brother this year had issues with stomach problems and I want to prevent any foreseeble issues. My husband however just hounds the heck out of my feeding program for 4 different types of horses. Broodies, youngsters, young competition horses, and older competition horse. |
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