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| Im sure this has been discussed alot but I cant find any threads. What do you feed and why? :) |
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Expert
Posts: 2685
| young horses : 1 cup Renew Gold, 1 cup Alfalfa pellets, minerals, all the grass hay they want 2X day
running horses : 2 cups Renew Gold, 1 cup Alfalfa pellets, THE special blend (muscle, vitamin, mineral, ulcer prevent, joint), 1 flake alfalfa, all the grass hay they want 2X day |
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 Undercover Amish Mafia Member
Posts: 9991
Location: Kansas | nutrena safe choice perform (low in starch), calf manna, & DMG for my finished mare
Safe choice senior for my broodmare
Safechoice performace, calf manna, oats and beet pulp for my yearling |
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Expert
Posts: 3514
| Renew Gold 1 1/2 lbs 1lb of oats divided between morning and night. Platinum CJ. and Timothy/Alfalfa hay.
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Posts: 723
Location: South TEXAS | rodeo mare(5yr) gets 1.25# Renew Gold with 1#soaked beet pulp in am and soaked alfalfa cubes pm. oxy max. coastal hay and alfalfa hay
had these 3 on RG for 90 days but they didn't do as well so I have since changed them to 3-4# of safe choice perform. they get coastal hay
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 Experienced Mouse Trapper
Posts: 3106
Location: North Dakota | rolled oats and barley about 4 pounds per horse to 3 head
i have a picky horse that eats woody's sweet 12 3 pounds
i have a big framed harder keeper that gets 3 pounds oats and barley and 2 pounds either woody's sweet 12 or summer heat.
All 5 get 1 cup flax, 1 tb lecithin (choline for a healthy gut) and 1 small scoop of stateline tack multivitamins. Grass mix hay. Salt and mineral block.
I really like buying bulk feed from the mill, usually 1500#'s at a time I usually mix the oats/barley 60/40 no molasses because it keeps a lot longer than with molasses though my horses prefer it with the molasses. Flax for hair and feet.
If I had no worries about money I would have all of them on Woody's, I'm very impressed with the quality of product, it does what it says! |
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 I'm Cooler Offline
Posts: 6387
Location: Pacific Northwest | The mare I run the most gets Ultium (but not the full amount, she doesn't really like a lot of grain) and then for supplements she gets Horse Guard multivitamin, Tight Joints Plus, SmartGut Ultra and Mega-Sel (she was on that when I bought her, they said she had a selenium deficiency).
Everyone else gets a mix of beet pulp, dry cob and Horse Guard multivitamin. They're easy keepers and actually don't need grain at all. The gelding that I used to run/am trying to still run (he's accident prone) also gets Ultium when he's being ran, and he still gets Tight Joints Plus.
And they all get a lot of local grass hay.
Mine are all easy keepers except for the mare, though she's definitely not a hard keeper AS LONG as she eats. If she starts to drop weight and stops wanting to eat her food I treat her with UlcerCureOTC and she will within a few days go back to eating like normal. Pretty much anything sets off her stomach - like recently she had pulled back at the trailer and got herself all body sore and it took a combination of treating her for ulcers and massage/adjustments to get her to start eating again. |
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 I hate cooking and cleaning
Posts: 3310
Location: Jersey Girl | My barrel horse gets Legends Performance pelleted and AE Detox. I like the high fiber/fat content and the low NSC values.
My trail horse gets Triple Crown Lite. He keeps fat on air. |
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 Money Eating Baggage Owner
Posts: 9586
Location: Phoenix | 1 pound of Renew Gold and I prefer orchard grass hay, but sometimes it's straight alfalfa, sometimes it's grass hay, just depending on what we have at the time. |
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Posts: 990
| Mine get Legends Performance Pellets and MSM and Diamond X brand  |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 788
| THANKS GUYS!! anything else? |
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The Resident Destroyer of Liberal Logic
Location: PNW | My 7 year old HARD keeper gets ALL the grassy alfalfa he can eat + Trifecta supplement (minerals, joint, skin/coat, digestive) + Max E Glo + Well Solve Low Starch. |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 1165
Location: California | All 8 at our place (hard and easy keepers, pasture pets and working horses) get free choice (or almost free choice) hay and equilix tubs. All look great! |
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Posts: 956
Location: Washington | One gets Strategy HE and Oats, the other gets LMF Low Starch. The both get Silver Lining Immune, Cool Calories 100, and Tight Joints Plus. They also get Grass/Alfalfa hay. |
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Posts: 473
| THE & TC c=
Triple Crown Nutrition feed & Total Health Enhancement supplements. |
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Posts: 288
| oats, ground flax, alfalfa pellets, 747, and hay. Free choice salt blocks, fresh water and grass! Actiflex-4000 is the preferred joint supp. |
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Location: NOT at Wal Mart | Working horses, 1 lb safe choice, 1 lb amplify, scoop MSM, scoop diatomaceous earth, MVP Matrix 5 with HA, 1/2 cup flax (once a day) with grass and alfalfa hay (twice a day) They have grass hay in front of them most of the day. |
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  Neat Freak
Posts: 11216
Location: Wonderful Wyoming | One gets Purina Ultium and T.H.E. Muscle Mass
the others are getting Safechoice Perform and T.H.E. Muscle Mass
I just started them in FORCO too and love the results with it and THE |
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 Big Gun
Posts: 2216
Location: Texas | Whole oats, coastal hay. Ppcj |
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Location: Texas | Bluebonnet Intensify 14 pellet. |
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Expert
Posts: 4766
Location: Bandera, TX | Whole oats, beet pulp, rice bran and flax 4-8 oz depending on the horse. I have a mare that's 17, with a foal on her side, three babies on the sides of mares all eating this mix. Butterball fat we have no grass due to drought. They get all they can eat of coastal and a pat of alfalfa daily.
I thought my two barrel horses would jump out of their skin, no problems. Both are looking good and behaving.
I grew up feeding whole grains-looks like I'm going to go back to it. I've been on and off so many processed feeds the last 12-15 years the horses as a whole look better than ever. |
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Veteran
Posts: 185
| Beet pulp, alfalfa/tim cubes, california trace, salt, 3/4 cup of milled flax and a little veg oil. Pretty much free choice grass hay and his pasture is growing now so fresh soon:) The alfalfa/tim cubes are just cuz I can't get alfalfa hay right now.
I've had two people comment on how shinny he is :) He is still losing winter coat too and I can't wait for him to shed out and see him in the summer sun:)
I recently added some local fat + fiber feed as well. I got a free bag :) |
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 Shelter Dog Lover
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| 4 years ago I took everyone off of grain because of ulcers and colic. They get soaked molasses free beet pulp for calories, fiber and mositure, I adjust the amount according to calorie needs- barely a cup in the summer to 1/2 scoop in the winter, 1 1/2 cup renew gold plus vitamin and mineral supplement. Alfalfa during the winter and when stalled. They have 80 acres to graze during the day, small 10 acre pasture at night, stalled only for weather, etc. They are fat, shiny and happy :). |
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Posts: 1482
Location: on my horse | I used to feed triple crown but nobody in my area carries it )=
I feed a quality grass alfalfa hay, give pasture turnout time, and nutrena empower boost (rice bran).
I just have a semi retired middle aged barrel horse (3-4 shows a year), a navicular gelding, and a colt I'm starting. I'm not sure what I would feed if I was going hard every weekend like I used to back in the day of sound horses and extra cash. |
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 Chasin my Dream
Posts: 13651
Location: Alberta | ALL- Alfalfa/Timothy cubes & mineral block access....pasture once the grass starts growing.
Barrel mare and prospect, get a handful of sweet feed ration just to get their herbs & probiotic in. |
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What do you feed?