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Location: Cocoa, Florida | Just switched to a feed that has this mineral in it and my horses look awesome, super shiny coats and their maine and hooves are growing like crazy! Have any of you tried this and had good results as well? |
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I just read the headlines
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| Yep I did and loved it but ADM makes it and I am never buying any of their products again. |
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Location: Where I am happiest | You can buy just the loose grow strong minerals without buying the feed. |
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 More bootie than waist!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | Great mineral but I'll never purchase another ADM product. |
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| I see a couple of comments about ADM. Please clue me in to why they are not liked. Thanks! |
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I just read the headlines
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| There was a long thread on feed safety that is very educational. It will explain.  |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | ThreeCorners - 2015-03-28 8:23 AM You can buy just the loose grow strong minerals without buying the feed.
They make medicated minerals, so I don't trust them on this either, aside from the boycott on ADM in general. |
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Accident Prone
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | cstone - 2015-03-28 9:08 AM
I see a couple of comments about ADM. Please clue me in to why they are not liked. Thanks!
They sold feed contaminated with trace amounts of monensin, it sickened several horses and killed a few. ADM denied responsibility and continued to sell feed out of the batch that was contaminated. I was feeding Patriot senior, Healthy Glo, and Gro-strong minerals and loved the products, but because of their actions have chosen not to further support such a company. |
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 I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | I swithced to Redmond Daily for my horse's mineral needs. I will also never buy an ADM product. |
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Location: Here | Nevertooold - 2015-03-28 3:08 PM I swithced to Redmond Daily for my horse's mineral needs. I will also never buy an ADM product.
Same here It isn't from an ionophore free place
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Location: Florida.. | I will not buy either.. I fed their products for many years and not anymore.they denied even with lab tests . and continued to sell the very batch that made many horses sick.. my friends event barn was tested and had several effects..competitions were even put off and ADM still denies wrong doing..search for it on here 2 threads..they sponsored and were dropped..due to this as well. |
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| I love it and will always use it. I'm not worried about anything. Use what works |
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More bootie than waist!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | brittracer - 2015-03-28 7:50 PM I love it and will always use it. I'm not worried about anything. Use what works
That's a slap in the face to Rachel and the others who are dealing with horses affected by the poisoning. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | brittracer - 2015-03-28 7:50 PM I love it and will always use it. I'm not worried about anything. Use what works
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| I missed the original threads about safe feed, but was able to locate and read them now. I really appreciate the information and am sorry for the owner who had to go through this ordeal. I have been looking for a good loose mineral, but I don't want to go buy something and haul it home just to chance making my horses sick or worse. I'll pass on their products.
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | cstone - 2015-03-29 8:40 AM I missed the original threads about safe feed, but was able to locate and read them now. I really appreciate the information and am sorry for the owner who had to go through this ordeal. I have been looking for a good loose mineral, but I don't want to go buy something and haul it home just to chance making my horses sick or worse. I'll pass on their products.
I might have reacted differently if the company had taken responsibility and tried to do something about it. But for them to basically stick fingers in their ears while yelling lalalalalalalalalaicanthearyoulalalalalalaProblemwhatproblemlalalalalalala, not cool. And if someone chooses to keep using them, that's their choice, but to do so while pretending nothing could possibly go wrong makes me angry. |
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Warmblood with Wings
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Location: Florida.. | http://www.ratemyhorsepro.com/news/lab-adm-equine-feed-contaminated-in-alabama.aspx
and there were 3 other barns and ADM still sold the same bags for nancy on here bought some and had it tested and it was Positive.. |
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Location: Willows, CA | Years ago I asked MoorMans (now owned by ADM) to make a formula of the the GroStrong mineral to my spec. They agreed to do that for me, and we sold it on the West Coast as "Western Region Formula from Natural Glo". After a few years, they adopted my formula as their standard GroStrong mineral that they still sell today. They were a different company, run a different way , back then, and I hate to see what is going on now. |
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| Don't know if it is available where you are, but I use a loose mineral from Tribute. It is called Grass Plus Mineral. I really like it, horses eat it and it has the amino acids and a about everything in it. |
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Warmblood with Wings
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Location: Florida.. | I do to for I really liked their horse products. I think had this been handled differantly more horse owners would have felt differantly.. They should have recalled and rectified the situation and Not deny it. With Lab tests and vets clearly stating the grains contained Monosin and caused horses health issues and put them at risk I just have no respect for the company at all..and to top that off call the horse owners "overreacting" that have the lab results and vet bills...... Damage control would have spoke volumnes not denial.
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Location: Beggs, OK | brittracer - 2015-03-28 7:50 PM I love it and will always use it. I'm not worried about anything. Use what works
Supporting a company that is no friend of your sport or industry is a slap in the face to the people that you consider your peers and a complete lack of regard for your horses.
Anyone who thinks that they have not been affected in some way by this issue is living with their heads in the clouds. If you have owned horses for very long or have owned very many horses in general, it is very unlikely that you haven't had a horse that's been exposed to Monensin at some point in it's life.
Consider the possibility that the "hard keeper" that you can't get to bloom, or the one that seems to keep ulcers no matter what you do, and maybe the one that died from a random colic didn't get sick because of a "weather change"....There might have been a toxic substance in your feed and it never crossed your mind to check.
For those who are taking this issue seriously, here is a link to Blue Bonnet's - Stride Element loose mineral. This is what we are feeding now: http://bluebonnetfeeds.com/pdf/stride_element.pdf |
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Location: Oklahoma | For an all around supplement I feed Augment made by Adeptus Nutrition. I have worked with the founder/owner of the company and the horses look great. |
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Location: Cocoa, Florida | Im switching them back to my DAC racehorse formula |
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 Pork Fat is my Favorite
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Location: The Oklahoma plains. | It should also be noted that they make a lot of private label minerals for customers. Say like a feed mill wants a certain formula to add to their line of feeds, ADM will make it for them. So even if you have an iopnophore free feed mill, they may in fact purchase their mineral pack from ADM. Just something to consider. |
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Red Hot Cardinal Fan
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| Those who are no longer using GroStrong mineral, what mineral are you using now? |
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Grow strong mineral, anyone feed it?