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Location: stray dump capital of the world | Presently, I feed Healthy Edge to 9 of my horses and Safechoice Senior to my senior horses. I add in beet pulp and rice bran along with other supplements for hooves, joints, ulcers...whatever. My feed purchasing trips take me to 2 different feed stores because the one who carries Healthy Edge doesn't carry Safechoice and vise versa. I fed this because I couldn't find ADM or Triple Crown in my area. Well, I found a Triple Crown dealer about 30 minutes from me and an ADM dealer about 30 miles in the opposite direction. So...given the option of the two, which would you go with. Also, in doing so, would you still need to feed beet pulp and rice bran? In reading about ADM and listening to the Clinton Anderson show last night, the ADM lady commented that in feeding ADM feed, the only other supplement one would need is for joints. What are your thoughts... |
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| I LOVE ADM feeds! I have been feeding ADM PowerGlo for a few months and really happy with it! |
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I Am Always Right
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Location: stray dump capital of the world | Great!!! Thank you. I'm pretty much sold on the seniorglo for my oldies, but in the hopes of going to one place for feed definitely peaks my interest. |
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  Neat Freak
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | I just started feeding ADM SeniorGLO and ADM PrimeGLO. So far I think they are amazing. I have never tried Triple Crown so I can't give you a comparison there. I like that you feed so little of the ADM and I am honestly seeing results! I wanted a lower NSC feed, don't feed a lot that had good ingredients and lucked out and found an ADM dealer 2hrs from me. All feed stores are far away from me :)
I give the Senior to a late 20's maybe 30 yr old pony and a 21 yr old gelding. I feed the PrimeGLO to my riding horses. I think I will pick up some JuniorGLO for the weanlings this fall. I do give the pony soaked beet and alfalfa pellets with his in the am since he has loose teeth.
If I remember right it has rice bran in it for the fat so I don't think you would need to do that. I still throw out loose mineral 12:12 and Redmonds Salt free choice and they all get THE.
I used to feed Safechoice and wasn't unhappy with it, just wanted something a little better with lower NSC.
Edited by wyoming barrel racer 2014-07-09 4:46 PM
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I Am Always Right
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Location: stray dump capital of the world | Wyoming, the reasons you state are the exact reasons I am looking for change. I fed the oldies Purina Senior and wasn't happy with the results, so I went to Safechoice. The results are better, but not where I want them to be. Both are mid 30s, have teeth and eat well; however, I also soak alfalfa cubes in addition to beet pulp and rice bran. I do believe that the feed contains rice bran and beet pulp. I plan on going by to take a lookie at the feed store this week. I'll need feed by Friday, so it's as good of time as any for change. |
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Neat Freak
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | When I open a bag, it smells so fresh and good. The PrimeGlo is greener and smells like alfalfa. Just very clean smelling lol. Safechoice, while I was happy with it, is just a dry pellet. No smell really, good or bad. |
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I Am Always Right
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Location: stray dump capital of the world | Thanks for the information!!! I'm going to go check it out tomorrow.  |
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| They are both excellent feeds !! I have fed both. Love both .. I am really growing partial to the ADM though :) I think it's my favorite of the two if I had to choose . I feed adm seniorGLO to all of my horses .. Ages 3, 7, 18 & 23. I used go feed the TC senior .. It was great too but my 7 yr old hard keeper wasn't fond of the taste .. Soo that's what made me try the adm seniorGLO . That was the best decision :) she loves the adm.. Every horse I've seen on any of the adm feeds absolutely love it ! |
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Location: Bandera, TX | I'm currently in the process of switching from TC Senior to ADM SeniorGlo.
Too early to tell, but it seems very tasty... |
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| Love adm feeds!!! |
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I Am Always Right
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Location: stray dump capital of the world | Thank you for all the responses. I appreciate them. |
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Location: Good ole SE Mo | I just started feeding ADM about a month and 1/2 ish ago. I LOVE it! I haven't really ever feed a "good" feed, just a all grain mix from COOP. I finally decided that I needed to get on a good feed and had heard about ADM so I looked more into. I really like that I wouldn't have to feed near as much and I wouldn't have to be adding all the extra stuff that I was putting in the old. I was feeding my hard keepers up to a whole supplement bucket( the bigger white ones) twice a day of grain, beet pulp and senior. I researched and thought I wanted certain horses on certain kinds of ADM. Well I found a dealer about 45 min away and went to talk to them. I am so glad I did cuz I wanted to put three horses on the PowerGlo and he said that it could make them a little hot, well 2 of 3 were already HOT lol So we decided to put them all on SeniorGlo at different rates. My old man is getting up to 5 lbs a day and the ones being rode are getting 3 and the easy keepers are getting about 2 pounds a day. Some of them are fixing to be cut back even more as they are getting too fat lol Mine all looked pretty good before I switched but now they look even better. Shiny and all. Won't be able to tell how it helps them mind wise and such for the barrel horses as one is out for a few more months with a suspensory injury and my mare almost cut her foot off the other day. But I just got a horse in to "replace" them for a while and he is on Total Equine. I am going to take before and during pictures of his journey over to ADM and see how he responds.
Anyway long story short..... I LOVE ADM and will recommend it to anyone! |
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Location: The Oklahoma plains. | ADM is an excellent national feed company whose adverstising dollar is working well as mentioned by the original poster- "seeing the lady on Clinton Anderson show"... |
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Location: Kentucky | I am a Triple Crown gal, but ADM is not sold in my area. From what I read, they are comparable feeds. You can't go wrong either way. |
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Location: Florida.. | Both are excellent feeds.. |
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I Am Always Right
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Location: stray dump capital of the world | So....I get up early only to find that they don't "carry" the feed. They will order it for me, but I will have to contact them later because the guy who orders it wasn't in. Sigh...
Can someone tell me what you pay per bag? I'm not opposed to ordering ahead, but they couldn't even give me the price per bag.
The Coop the next town over carries the triple crown, so I could always go that route.
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Location: Kentucky | sophiebelle - 2014-07-10 10:56 AM So....I get up early only to find that they don't "carry" the feed. They will order it for me, but I will have to contact them later because the guy who orders it wasn't in. Sigh...
Can someone tell me what you pay per bag? I'm not opposed to ordering ahead, but they couldn't even give me the price per bag.
The Coop the next town over carries the triple crown, so I could always go that route.
I pay $22.99 per bag of TC. |
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 Cute Little Imp
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Location: N Texas | I have fed both, and really like both. Either way, you can't go wrong, they are both high quality feeds IMO. I started with Triple Crown Senior for both a 5 and 25 year old. They both looked great on it and they LOVED the taste. I decided to switch to ADM SeniorGlo because it was easier for me to get. I fed that for a while and both horses still loved it and still looked great. I then switched to ADM PrimeGlo and have stuck with that. The reason I switched to that is the ingredients and nutritional info are nearly identical to the SeniorGlo, it's just concentrated so you feed less. Mine get about 3 pounds per day along with unlimited hay.
I also add soaked beet pulp, rice bran meal and alfalfa cubes to the senior's diet because he has a hard time eating hay. The five year old looks great on it, I'm very pleased. For a while I was riding my sister's horse, so I switched him to PrimeGlo from an oat/grain mix. His topline filled out and he started to look MUCH better after only a short time, and only eating 3 pounds per day with unlimited hay.
For TC Senior, I believe I was paying around $26/bag and ADM is $25.50/bag. Since I feed so little of the PrimeGlo, it lasts longer than the senior feeds, so is more cost effective. |
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Location: Durango CO | I cannot testify for TC feeds but I have a 16.3 (1350#) gelding and he is what I consider a hard keeper. I had him on 2lbs ADM SeniorGlo, 1 lb Renew Gold and FORCO and I was paying $63.20 exactly in feed per month. I got chincy and decided I wanted to try and spend less, so I put him on 2 lbs of beetpulp with 1 lb renew gold. It probably wasn't enough calories for him but I just didn't like the way he looked on it so I am back to the ADM program. Normally I think I would have to feed 4-5 pounds of grain to keep my horse at a good weight but with ADM I dont have to. I feed the Renew Gold mainly for an added fat source because that's what really finishes out my horse.
My horse is on pasture 24/7 and is doing good without hay. |
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Location: Good ole SE Mo | sophiebelle - 2014-07-10 9:56 AM
So....I get up early only to find that they don't "carry" the feed. They will order it for me, but I will have to contact them later because the guy who orders it wasn't in. Sigh...
Can someone tell me what you pay per bag? I'm not opposed to ordering ahead, but they couldn't even give me the price per bag.
The Coop the next town over carries the triple crown, so I could always go that route.
I pay a hair bit over $20/ bag for the Senior Glo. If I had to feed much more then I would have to get a second job lol but it works out ok since I don't feed as much of this as I would other feeds. This is my 2nd "order" and I have been getting 10 bags at a time and it's been just a little of $200 (or something like that) and the 10 bags last me for 3-4 weeks and that's feeding 7 head on it. |
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| I was under the impression that the PrimeGlo was for easy keepers. Is this not so? |
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| Sandok - 2014-07-10 11:45 AM
I was under the impression that the PrimeGlo was for easy keepers. Is this not so?
PrimeGLO is for easy keepers ;) last I looked lol |
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| Glad that I read that right. I have two that keep, shall we say, very, very healthy I think on air. I was feeding the ADM Patriot and was told to switch to the ADM PrimeGlo and the Grostrong Minerals. |
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| I know two people who feed the PrimeGLO with great results :) they feed 2-3 lbs a day @ their easy keepers look great ! |
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I Am Always Right
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Location: stray dump capital of the world | Thanks for the information on pricing. Currently, I go through 24 bags of Healthy Edge a month and that is feeding 9 horses. The 2 oldies get Safechoice Senior. I pay 15.95 for the Healthy Edge and use that because the feed store is a mile from work. I also add in rice bran (to the oldies and a hard keeper), beet pulp (to all horses), soaked alfalfa cubes for the oldies, plus weight gain on the oldies and hard keeper. Then the others have different supplements. The oldies get joint supplement, I have two on ulcer meds, plus all the horses get coastal and alfalfa. I'm not really concerned about the difference in price. I just feel like I'm feeding a lot of feed and extras and they just aren't looking like I want.
I could go with TC because the Coop is the next town over and I am there at least once a week. I had my heart set on the ADM...
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Neat Freak
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | here in WY I pay $29 something for the PrimeGLO and $28ish for the SeniorGLO or vise versa, but I am only feeding 2# to each horse. |
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 A Lady with Fight
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Location: NC | I feed Triple Crown Complete to my running horse. He gets 6lbs a day. He's not exactly an easy keeper, but he's not hard either. Kind of in the middle. LOL I prefer them fat anyways. He gets THE Muscle Mass with some add ons and that's it. It's 12% fat and high in fiber too, so no need for the addition stuff like rice bran and beet pulp. Both the Senior and Complete are beet pulp based.
Triple Crown has a ration balancer (Triple Crown 30% Supplement) you can try for the easy keepers. It's made for horses on free choice pasture &/or hay. It just supplements their forage. I've fed just that to a bigger mare we have and she stayed fat on it. It's great for the super easy keeper, but not every horse is cut out for it. It's good if you're only feeding less than the minimum of your usual feed. It gives them all the vitamins minerals protein and other goodies in a concentrated dose. |
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Location: Mansfield, Tx | I currently feed the ADM - Patriot 14/8 pellet is run 13.75 a bag, I was feeding the senior to my old man (32) but he turned his nose up at it to eat the 14/8 so I just quit buying the Senior ( 16.75) and started him on the 14/8
I do add the loose minerals to the feed.
I love the way ADM has my horses looking... I won't be changing my feed any time soon....
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Cute Little Imp
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Location: N Texas | wyoming barrel racer - 2014-07-10 7:57 PM
here in WY I pay $29 something for the PrimeGLO and $28ish for the SeniorGLO or vise versa, but I am only feeding 2# to each horse.
If you are only feeding 2# of SeniorGlo with nothing else, then you need to add extra minerals...this is directly from the ADM rep when I inquired about the smallest amount I could feed my horses and this is their response:
"If I fed only 3 lbs of the SENIORGLO I would make sure that I also top dress about 1 oz. of GROSTRONG mineral or provided it Free Choice to the horses. If Your horses only need about 3 lbs of SENIORGLO I would suggest you feed PRIMEGLO which is the same formula as SENIORGLO only we put 2 time the amount of vitamins and minerals and digestive aids so it can be fed at the lower feeding rate of 2-4 lbs and you will be getting the need vitamins and mineral into the horse without having to top dress extra."
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I Am Always Right
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Location: stray dump capital of the world | The responses are so informative. I guess I will look into the Triple Crown feed now since the ADM seems to be slipping from my grasp. haha! |
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Neat Freak
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | Gunner11 - 2014-07-11 8:13 AM wyoming barrel racer - 2014-07-10 7:57 PM here in WY I pay $29 something for the PrimeGLO and $28ish for the SeniorGLO or vise versa, but I am only feeding 2# to each horse. If you are only feeding 2# of SeniorGlo with nothing else, then you need to add extra minerals...this is directly from the ADM rep when I inquired about the smallest amount I could feed my horses and this is their response: "If I fed only 3 lbs of the SENIORGLO I would make sure that I also top dress about 1 oz. of GROSTRONG mineral or provided it Free Choice to the horses. If Your horses only need about 3 lbs of SENIORGLO I would suggest you feed PRIMEGLO which is the same formula as SENIORGLO only we put 2 time the amount of vitamins and minerals and digestive aids so it can be fed at the lower feeding rate of 2-4 lbs and you will be getting the need vitamins and mineral into the horse without having to top dress extra." Just thought I'd pass that along
It is for a 700ish# pony-the Sr GLO. I am also giving it to my 21 yr old when he is in the corral and not out in pasture. The latter is a super easy keeper and he just gets grain so he doesn't look so sad while the others eat. Both get free choice GREAT quality grass hay thanks to all this rain. They also have 12:12 mineral and Redmonds salt free choice. I think they are covered, but I agree they would need more than 2# if that was all they were getting.
The pony gets his in beet and alfalfa pellets soaked due to loose teeth. |
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Yep...another feed post. ADM vs Triple Crown