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Location: NC | Do you use it as a supplement or as a feed? I think my set up is great to introduce it to my program. Mine are turned out 24/7 with free choice coastal rounds. I supplement with some alfalfa at feed time. Just wondering if anyone just adds it to what they feed now or were able to use it alone as the sole source of nutrition.
Finally have a semi-local dealer of it and they're offering 10% off for me to try it.
I'm thinking of adding a pound or two of oats to it just for some added energy. My guys haven't had any gut issues and they don't get nervous or crazy. Quite the opposite. So I like just a little more fire when I need it.
Thanks in advance!
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Location: Texas | Mine get 1/2 lb twice per day. They are out on pasture 24/7 and get free choice coastal bermuda. I use it as a carrier for my Silverlining Herbs & salt. My guys look & feel great on it. |
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Location: Oklahoma | I feed about 3/4 pound a day to my easy keeper cowbred gelding and about 1 1/4 pound a day to my appendix gelding. Both are on a native grass round bale and the appendix also gets his THE blend and a few flakes of alfalfa added each day. |
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| My mare gets 1lb a day and 10lbs alfalfa hay plus free choice grass hay. She also gets THE MM in her grain. She is a "hard keeper" she looks great on that mix. |
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Location: NC | kmcsunshine - 2014-12-26 9:48 PM
Feed. Not a supplement.
I know. But some feed it as a supplement to a grain they aren't feeding the full amount of. |
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Location: WYOMING | In talking to Win this week, the owner of Renew Gold, you can use it as either a feed or a supplememt but it all hinges on the quality and amount of forage you have.
I will be using it to fill the holes where a alfalfa only diet is needed.
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Location: Bandera, TX | It is the sole feed for my riding horses. I'm going to precondition my broodies with it in early March. |
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| I only feed renew and hay. It has worked for my Futurity colt from weaning to maturity, broodmare, elderly horse, and now a pony. They all look and act fabulous. |
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Location: Phoenix | My horse gets good grass hay and a small flake of alfalfa. I feed RG as a feed....my horse was pretty ribby because he started his winter in WA and was fairly poor. He does well without a lot of sugar and I wanted him to get the fat that this feed provides. |
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Location: South Central Florida | I feed it as a suppliment. My horses are turned out 24/7 on grass, but it's just bermuda grass. Although they have a lot of it, I don't want to suppliment their hay because I have a really hard time getting consistant hay here. Between the price and the up down quality, I only feed hay a few times a year and when we are traveling. Because of not being sure about the quality fo the forage, I feed it as a suppliment with a low starch/low sugar feed. I used to feed MaxEglow, but switched to the Renewgold for added fat, and the price as a suppliment is about the same.
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Location: Willows, CA | Most people do not feed additional grain based feed with Renew Gold unless their roughage source, hay or pasture, is very poor. In that case, Renew Gold can be supplemented with added Stabilized Rice Bran, or low starch conventional feed, but at a greatly reduced feed rate of those two ingredients. With poor roughage, your best supplement dollar is spent on better hay if you can find it. With grass programs, a little alfalfa 3 or 4 pounds per day) can encourage better hind gut efficiency by slowing the system down a little. This allows a better chance of digestion of the fast moving grass hay by giving the system a little more time to break it down. You do not trade Renew Gold out pound for pound with other feeds because of the digestive system changes that Renew Gold encourages. Typically, we replace around 4 pounds of conventional feed with one pound of Renew Gold. The extra calories that you have taken out of the feeding program by reducing or eliminating commercial grain based feed is replaced by much more complete digestion of hay in a more efficient hind gut. We do encourage customers to call us if they would like to go over their feeding program. |
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Location: Its Freaking Freezing Up Here... | Is there anywhere to purchase Renew Gold in Canada? I have emailed the company but did not get a reply. |
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Location: Willows, CA | We continue to work on Canada. There are registration issues that require a Canadian agent in place, and acceptance is challenging. The whole NAFTA Treaty is pretty one sided. We are working on making them happy. I hope to have this done by spring. |
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Location: Its Freaking Freezing Up Here... | winwillows - 2014-12-30 9:25 AM
We continue to work on Canada. There are registration issues that require a Canadian agent in place, and acceptance is challenging. The whole NAFTA Treaty is pretty one sided. We are working on making them happy. I hope to have this done by spring.
Excellent. Happy to hear this. I shall watch for news it has made it here! |
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Location: Oklahoma | I have two that are on burmuda pasture, and also get burmuda round bales, and some alfafa at feeding time. My mare just gets enough oats to keep her from throwing a fit at feeding time (shes an easy keeper and retired). I've had my gelding on Renew Gold for a little over a year now, though he went about two months without during the summer while he was turned out. He is big and tends to be a hard keeper. He gets 1 1/2 lbs of Renew Gold, a couple pounds of crimped oats, and beat pulp every day. He lost a little weight coming into winter before I could get him pulled in off the 200 acres he was on. He's filled back in a bunch, and as soon as hes where I want him i'll drop him back to just the RG. |
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Location: Buffalo, Wyoming | I do not own a scale, how does everyone else weigh their feed out? Just bought a bag of RG yesterday and would like to start it tonight. |
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Location: N Texas | classicpotatochip - 2014-12-26 4:03 PM
I feed mine with alfalfa pellets and free choice coastal. If I have any that need any extra kick, I add a pound of Ultium. I'm running ott triple a 1250+ lb horses. My one little cowbred gets 3/4 lb and coastal. She looks phenomenal. That's it.
Ditto, except the Ultium. I have two that get about 3/4# Renew Gold per day each, and about 1# of Standlee alfalfa pellets, free choice hay, and I turn them out to graze for a few hours a day. They are both fat and feel great! They also have a salt block, but don't really seem to care for it, so I assume they're getting all the minerals they need from their feed.
For harder keepers, I would use the Renew Gold as a supplement to their regular feed. |
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Location: N Texas | luvinrunnin - 2014-12-27 2:54 PM
I'd sure like to try it, if I could get it around $30ish a bag. Can't get it less than $48/bag though and that's just too high.
Holy cow, that's crazy! I get it for under $35/bag. Is there a TSC near you that can order it for you? |
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Location: North Dakota | I think 4 cups is about 1lb. I believe the green scoop I have is 2 cups (can't tell since all the writing has worn off). I know 1.5lbs is about half a coffee can.
I feed my 2yr old 1lb, my gelding that isn't a hard keeper but needs more feed to keep a nice topline gets 1.5lbs and my hard keeper mare is getting 2.5lbs but I will be dropping her down to 2lbs soon. They have been on it for a little over a month and I am LOVING how they look! My mare looks the best she has ever looked! Super shiny, a very pleasant attitude, and is bulking up! I never thought her hip could look this nice. She is 9yrs old and is looking like a completely different horse. I cannot wait to see what she looks like once she has been on it longer and it gets turned out on grass. I have finally found a feed that I am sticking with. I am finally super happy and confident with my feed program. Before it just felt like a guessing game.
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Location: N Texas | UTAHCANCHASER - 2015-05-13 1:19 PM
I do not own a scale, how does everyone else weigh their feed out? Just bought a bag of RG yesterday and would like to start it tonight.
I got a measuring cup from my feed store. It's the same size as a 32 oz soda cup. So one 32 oz cup=1 lb of Renew Gold. I was also told that three measuring cups=1 lb. Some people say 4, some say 3. I should probably measure to be positive.
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Location: North Dakota | Gunner11 - 2015-05-13 1:52 PM UTAHCANCHASER - 2015-05-13 1:19 PM I do not own a scale, how does everyone else weigh their feed out? Just bought a bag of RG yesterday and would like to start it tonight. I got a measuring cup from my feed store. It's the same size as a 32 oz soda cup. So one 32 oz cup=1 lb of Renew Gold. I was also told that three measuring cups=1 lb. Some people say 4, some say 3. I should probably measure to be positive.
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Location: N Texas | Just Bring It - 2015-05-13 1:54 PM
Gunner11 - 2015-05-13 1:52 PM UTAHCANCHASER - 2015-05-13 1:19 PM I do not own a scale, how does everyone else weigh their feed out? Just bought a bag of RG yesterday and would like to start it tonight. I got a measuring cup from my feed store. It's the same size as a 32 oz soda cup. So one 32 oz cup=1 lb of Renew Gold. I was also told that three measuring cups=1 lb. Some people say 4, some say 3. I should probably measure to be positive.
Good to know :) I've seen lots of people on here say 3, and just as many say 4, so I just go by the 32 oz cup amount 
ETA: DUH, 1 cup=8 oz, so 4 cups =32 oz. Sometimes I make things harder than they should be...
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Location: Missouri | I feed 8oz twice a day and my horses are perfect! The best they have ever looked! |
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Location: Golden Gulf Coast of Texas | UTAHCANCHASER - 2015-05-13 1:19 PM
I do not own a scale, how does everyone else weigh their feed out? Just bought a bag of RG yesterday and would like to start it tonight.
3 cups is a pound. That's a regular kitchen measuring cup. I feed a cup and a half morning and nite with alfalfa pellets. My feed store had a cup made by renew gold that they gave with the feed. There was a thread on here where Winwillows confirmed its 3 cups = a pound of RG
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Location: Golden Gulf Coast of Texas | This is the link to the thread about the measurements
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Location: PNW | mreklaw - 2015-05-13 6:05 PM
This is the link to the thread about the measurements
http://forums.barrelhorseworld.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid...
I have measured and weighed RG several times to be sure because my measurements on my scoops were worn off and I couldn't read them. 4, 1 cup measurements = 1 pound of RG. I think in that thread that WW is confirming that the math is correct, not necessarily the information. Edited by svincent 2015-05-13 9:43 PM
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Location: North Dakota | I've had great results feeding 1lb a day plus alfalfa/timothy pellets and beet pulp. I have been concerned with the omega 3 to 6 ratio since my horses get no fresh grass, so will probably start adding more flax but I don't want to change from the RG because it's just done wonders! One of my geldings increased 1-1.5 levels on the body scale in just over a month and blew my vet away. The other was in need of just a little weight and it really made him bloom. |
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Location: Golden Gulf Coast of Texas | svincent - 2015-05-13 9:40 PM
mreklaw - 2015-05-13 6:05 PM
This is the link to the thread about the measurements
http://forums.barrelhorseworld.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid...
I have measured and weighed RG several times to be sure because my measurements on my scoops were worn off and I couldn't read them. 4, 1 cup measurements = 1 pound of RG. I think in that thread that WW is confirming that the math is correct, not necessarily the information.
Well maybe he will come back on here and clear it up. I got one of the RG measure cups and the mark for 1 pound is 3 cups. |
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Location: Willows, CA | It seems like everyone scoops RG out of the bag differently. You can scrape excess off of the top of a measuring cup you will fit a pound into four cups. You can just scoop a cup in the bag with some peaked above the rim and get a pound into three cups. The way I do it results in a pound being a little less than 3 1/2 cups. When people ask I tell them "a little over three kitchen measuring cups will be one pound. |
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Location: NC | Just Bring It - 2015-05-13 1:44 PM I think 4 cups is about 1lb. I believe the green scoop I have is 2 cups (can't tell since all the writing has worn off). I know 1.5lbs is about half a coffee can.
I feed my 2yr old 1lb, my gelding that isn't a hard keeper but needs more feed to keep a nice topline gets 1.5lbs and my hard keeper mare is getting 2.5lbs but I will be dropping her down to 2lbs soon. They have been on it for a little over a month and I am LOVING how they look! My mare looks the best she has ever looked! Super shiny, a very pleasant attitude, and is bulking up! I never thought her hip could look this nice. She is 9yrs old and is looking like a completely different horse. I cannot wait to see what she looks like once she has been on it longer and it gets turned out on grass. I have finally found a feed that I am sticking with. I am finally super happy and confident with my feed program. Before it just felt like a guessing game.
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Location: Mississippi | I just started RG this week. My horses are turned out 24/7 and have plenty of grass - should I still add some alfalfa pellets? They were previously on Safechoice Sr and beet pulp. I am slowly switching over so they are still getting a little Sr mixed in with about 3/4 pound of RG |
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Location: Buffalo, Wyoming | Last night was a our first night to try it. I have one mare the usually dives into her grain but she did not do this with the RG. Anyone have anything similar happen. All I fed was the RG and nothing mixed in with it. |
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| UTAHCANCHASER - 2015-05-14 9:33 AM
Last night was a our first night to try it. I have one mare the usually dives into her grain but she did not do this with the RG. Anyone have anything similar happen. All I fed was the RG and nothing mixed in with it.
You need to slowly change it over. start mixing it with the old grain and slowly wean them off the old grain and on to RG. I can't believe some horses don't like it. Every one of my horses absolutely LOVES it---and I thought they loved their grain before! |
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| My horse turns his nose up at his pellets now if RG isn't in his feed. I thought he was having a mild colic or even ulcers coming back. Nope, 2 days later when the RG came to the feed store and I fed him, he was back to his feed gobbling self. Mix it with their old feed and they should get used to it. |
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Location: N Texas | winwillows - 2015-05-14 8:54 AM
It seems like everyone scoops RG out of the bag differently. You can scrape excess off of the top of a measuring cup you will fit a pound into four cups. You can just scoop a cup in the bag with some peaked above the rim and get a pound into three cups. The way I do it results in a pound being a little less than 3 1/2 cups. When people ask I tell them "a little over three kitchen measuring cups will be one pound.
When someone says "3 cups", I take it to mean 3 LEVEL cups, not heaping. |
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Location: North Dakota | GLP - 2015-05-14 9:52 AM My horse turns his nose up at his pellets now if RG isn't in his feed. I thought he was having a mild colic or even ulcers coming back. Nope, 2 days later when the RG came to the feed store and I fed him, he was back to his feed gobbling self. Mix it with their old feed and they should get used to it.
If I mix too many alfalfa pellets in with my horse's RG, he will swirl his nose around in there and throw pellets all over trying to "dig" out the RG. He LOVES it. The other refused to eat it for the longest time. I started with just rice bran, then started giving him the RG with beet pulp and he gobbles it up. |
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Location: N Texas | turtleaut - 2015-05-14 9:29 AM
I just started RG this week. My horses are turned out 24/7 and have plenty of grass - should I still add some alfalfa pellets? They were previously on Safechoice Sr and beet pulp. I am slowly switching over so they are still getting a little Sr mixed in with about 3/4 pound of RG
My senior horse has to be fed twice a day, so I feed the alfalfa pellets to the other two so they're not feeling left out in the morning. They get Renew Gold in the evenings, and just enough alfalfa pellets in the morning so they have something to do. They would both still look great without them. |
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Location: Buffalo, Wyoming | Tatum2 - 2015-05-14 8:48 AM UTAHCANCHASER - 2015-05-14 9:33 AM Last night was a our first night to try it. I have one mare the usually dives into her grain but she did not do this with the RG. Anyone have anything similar happen. All I fed was the RG and nothing mixed in with it. You need to slowly change it over. start mixing it with the old grain and slowly wean them off the old grain and on to RG. I can't believe some horses don't like it. Every one of my horses absolutely LOVES it---and I thought they loved their grain before!
Thay hadn't been on any grain for a few months just really good hay. |
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Location: Golden Gulf Coast of Texas | Gunner11 - 2015-05-14 9:52 AM
winwillows - 2015-05-14 8:54 AM
It seems like everyone scoops RG out of the bag differently. You can scrape excess off of the top of a measuring cup you will fit a pound into four cups. You can just scoop a cup in the bag with some peaked above the rim and get a pound into three cups. The way I do it results in a pound being a little less than 3 1/2 cups. When people ask I tell them "a little over three kitchen measuring cups will be one pound.
When someone says "3 cups", I take it to mean 3 LEVEL cups, not heaping.
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Location: North Dakota | HorsesNHarleys - 2015-05-14 9:16 AM Just Bring It - 2015-05-13 1:44 PM I think 4 cups is about 1lb. I believe the green scoop I have is 2 cups (can't tell since all the writing has worn off). I know 1.5lbs is about half a coffee can.
I feed my 2yr old 1lb, my gelding that isn't a hard keeper but needs more feed to keep a nice topline gets 1.5lbs and my hard keeper mare is getting 2.5lbs but I will be dropping her down to 2lbs soon. They have been on it for a little over a month and I am LOVING how they look! My mare looks the best she has ever looked! Super shiny, a very pleasant attitude, and is bulking up! I never thought her hip could look this nice. She is 9yrs old and is looking like a completely different horse. I cannot wait to see what she looks like once she has been on it longer and it gets turned out on grass. I have finally found a feed that I am sticking with. I am finally super happy and confident with my feed program. Before it just felt like a guessing game. Is this once a day or twice a day?
Once a day. |
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Location: North Dakota | UTAHCANCHASER - 2015-05-14 9:33 AM Last night was a our first night to try it. I have one mare the usually dives into her grain but she did not do this with the RG. Anyone have anything similar happen. All I fed was the RG and nothing mixed in with it.
Yes, my horses didn't care for it right away either. It just took them a little while to get use to it but now they love it. |
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Location: North Dakota | Just Bring It - 2015-05-14 12:20 PM UTAHCANCHASER - 2015-05-14 9:33 AM Last night was a our first night to try it. I have one mare the usually dives into her grain but she did not do this with the RG. Anyone have anything similar happen. All I fed was the RG and nothing mixed in with it. Yes, my horses didn't care for it right away either. It just took them a little while to get use to it but now they love it.
Ditto. One of my geldings would take a bite and spit it out. I couldn't get him to eat it for anything. Mixed it in with his old grains, put liquid 747 in (which he loves), tried just starving him out. The nard would pick up every little bit of feed around the RG and leave it behind. I finally started mixing it with beet pulp and he started eating it. |
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| Both my horses loved it but FELL APART for the 3 months they were on it. Coats became dull and wirey, Would shed out on neck and butt and grow hair on the barrel. Took them off and within a week both were slicked off and filled out. I really wanted it to work, just did not happen. |
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Location: Texas | I have fed RG for almost a year. My horses really went down hill this past winter & now this spring. Usually they look their very best in the spring after they are shed out & with the green grass. But they both got ribby & thin looking. I dewormed, but that didn't help. I finally had to face the fact that the RG wasn't working and had to switch. I really wanted it to work too. |
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Location: Willows, CA | If a horse does not eat RG right away it is usually because they are switching from a higher starch and sugar level feed (read candy bar) to a feed that does not taste as sweet. Once they figure out that it is food, the issue goes away. I am not saying that every horse on the planet will love it, just the vast majority of them. On the horses that shed funny or do not maintain weight, reading the responses from many, many users shows how rare this is. Especially if more than one or all of the horses that you feed have the same issue. A problem holding condition would point to a lack of total calories in the diet, or an inability to efficiently process the calories that are being eaten. Body condition is a function of calories needed by the horse vs calories digested. If they are not holding condition, they are simply not digesting enough calories. If more than one horse has this issue it is usually not enough roughage, not enough calories in the roughage that is being offered to the horse, or a teeth issue that is keeping the horse from properly chewing the roughage so that it can be properly digested in the hind gut. If the horse is on pasture but its teeth make it uncomfortable to chew they simply eat less, even though they have access to all that they need. All of these are issues that we run into fairly regularly, and usually solve fairly easily. We talked about the strange shedding, and quite honestly it is the only time I have heard this in half a million bags of RG sold. There is clearly something going on there, but for once I will have to admit that I have no answer for the situation. It is strange that this happened to all the horses fed at this one location, without ever seeing this anywhere else before or since. Those of you who feed RG can attest to the skin and coat condition it gives. At any rate, no feed is perfect for every horse, but a normal digestive function is. Limit starch and sugar to the amount that a horse can digest in the small intestine, provide the best roughage you can, and don't underestimate the importance of proper condition of your horses teeth. These three things will give you a foundation for your feeding program that will save you money and give you a healthier horse in the long run. |
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Location: west of East Texas | I started feeding RG to an injured horse that had been on stall lockup for about 6 weeks at that point. Her body condition had sunk so low it was scary. She went from a big, overly fluffy girl on fulltime pasture with little feed to 6x the feed, constant access to hay, added alfalfa cubes but lost several hundred pounds. (She's 16h and massive build). I've been gradually transitioning her over the last three weeks. She's up to 2# RG plus the old feed and fulltime hay access. I haven't noticed much change in her body condition yet but I have noticed her increase in appetite. She charges into her food and eats twice the amount of hay. I'm waiting on her to fill up. |
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Location: Got Lobsta? | I am so happy RG is working for my horses. I love the fact I'm not feeding them a ton of grain and they have actually put on a lot of weight! I just feed the RG with timothy hay, and 1 flake of alfafa hay at night.  |
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Location: North Dakota | My horse has been on RG for a little over a month and I am super impressed BUT of course I cannot give it all the credit. I also put her on Forco and she has been on omeprazole for possible ulcers (never had her scoped but symptoms pointed that way) for about 3 weeks. I don't have a real recent pic yet but she is looking amazing! She just seems filled out in all the right places finally! This mare is not an easy keeper by any means and is always super lean but now the ribcage is finally disappearing which was near impossible before no matter how much feed she was getting. Her topline is filling out and she has a crease on the top of her rump. She is getting a soggy hip...love that! Plus she is so shiny! She is so slick (other than a few hairs on her barrel and legs yet).
She is also on alfalfa hay, alfalfa/beet pulp pellets, and free choice hay.
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Location: CTX | Been feeding RG for a couple of months now, and for the most part I love it. All 3 of my horses shed their wintercoat in no time at all. And my 2 easy keepers look great.
The only 1 I still add Purina Sr to is my 26 year old mare. She has issues keeping the weight on. I have her on 1.5# RG, 3# Purina Sr, alfalfa a day. And I just started her on calf manna too.
Before I had her on safechoice sr, and I loved how she looked with that, but with all the issues I changed her to RG. Well, she went downhill fast with just RG, so I added the Purina Sr. I still don't like giving her that much grain, but I guess I don't have a choice.
And all of them are only in the stall at feeding time. The rest they are out in the pasture, and with the rain we've been having lately the grass is very nice and green.
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Location: Where you need a paddle... Oregon! | I've been feeding it and just started the third bag. She gets whole oats and coconut oil with it and 2 flakes alfalfa. I fenced off part of the yard so she can get some grass, but there's not a ton. She looks really good. She's a horse that doesn't thrive easily. She shed out super fast - I barely remember it happening. I will try to attach a picture.
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 Mature beyond Years
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Location: North of the 49th Parallel | I'm feeding Renew Gold and Buckeye to my mare (had a bag of Cadence Ultra and decided to use it all up) and THE GastroPlus and once that is done, I'll switch her over to THE MuscleMass. I noticed my mare is still super slow to shed out BUT she's always been slow. Frustrates me. But she is looking really good. Getting a topline and her shoulder muscles just pop! Wow. The best thing is normally this horse acts like a rocket launched grenade on any type of grain and she's been pretty level headed right now. |
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 I hate cooking and cleaning
Posts: 3314
Location: Jersey Girl | Who carries this? I am in NJ and the store locator on the website does not work. |
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Red Bull Agressive
Posts: 5981
Location: North Dakota | fulltiltfilly - 2015-05-17 9:17 AM Who carries this? I am in NJ and the store locator on the website does not work.
Do you have Tractor Supply there? They carry it. If they don't have it in stock you can pester the manager and they should be able to order it for you. You can ask winwillows if he can help you out too. |
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Expert
Posts: 1695
Location: Willows, CA | We are in the process of a complete redesign of our web site. The dealer locator is not up. Just call and we will get you a store near you. 530-934-9300. |
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The Advice Guru
Posts: 6419
| bccanchaser16 - 2015-05-17 12:43 AM
I'm feeding Renew Gold and Buckeye to my mare (had a bag of Cadence Ultra and decided to use it all up) and THE GastroPlus and once that is done, I'll switch her over to THE MuscleMass. I noticed my mare is still super slow to shed out BUT she's always been slow. Frustrates me. But she is looking really good. Getting a topline and her shoulder muscles just pop! Wow. The best thing is normally this horse acts like a rocket launched grenade on any type of grain and she's been pretty level headed right now.
Are you getting renew gold in Canada, if so who is carrying it? |
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