I do not like nutrena and have never fed their products. however I'm out of oats and waiting on my delivery to come (I order them from out of state) and the only oats the feed store has here are nutrena race horse oats. I was thinking of buying some to use until my delivery comes but I'm worried about possible rumensin/monensin contamination. anyone know if they are safe and how the quality is??
I ran into the head guy of the Sterling CO Nutrena mill a few weeks ago. Sterling uses ionophores in the bulk feed. What he told me was the single grains were the safest feed you can get. Prior to them not running ionophores in bagged feed, they cleaned out with 12 tons of chicken scratch. Now if ionophores are added to bagged feed, they system locks down and won't operate.
After visiting with him and him explaining the system, buying oats from Nutrena would not worry me.
I do not like nutrena and have never fed their products. however I'm out of oats and waiting on my delivery to come (I order them from out of state) and the only oats the feed store has here are nutrena race horse oats. I was thinking of buying some to use until my delivery comes but I'm worried about possible rumensin/monensin contamination. anyone know if they are safe and how the quality is??
With it being a whole grain you really are minimizing your exposure to contaminates. What about a local mill/small feed store? I didn't see where you from so I know that makes a big difference.
I do not like nutrena and have never fed their products. however I'm out of oats and waiting on my delivery to come (I order them from out of state) and the only oats the feed store has here are nutrena race horse oats. I was thinking of buying some to use until my delivery comes but I'm worried about possible rumensin/monensin contamination. anyone know if they are safe and how the quality is??
With it being a whole grain you really are minimizing your exposure to contaminates. What about a local mill/small feed store? I didn't see where you from so I know that makes a big difference.
Local, small mills are even more dangerous if they mix for anyone. They typically can't run 12 ton of feed to clean out as they don't have that big of a market. We have a small mill here too along with Cargill/Nutrena. The small local mill uses monesin pellets in some of the custom made blends. I know a lady that has a custom made mix for her horses. She's lost some to colic, had mares abort, horses die, etc. Yet she insists it isn't the feed. I'm 99.9% sure it is.
I would feed Nutrena oats over buying from a local mill unless I asked a ton of questions first.
I do not like nutrena and have never fed their products. however I'm out of oats and waiting on my delivery to come (I order them from out of state) and the only oats the feed store has here are nutrena race horse oats. I was thinking of buying some to use until my delivery comes but I'm worried about possible rumensin/monensin contamination. anyone know if they are safe and how the quality is??
With it being a whole grain you really are minimizing your exposure to contaminates. What about a local mill/small feed store? I didn't see where you from so I know that makes a big difference.
Local, small mills are even more dangerous if they mix for anyone. They typically can't run 12 ton of feed to clean out as they don't have that big of a market. We have a small mill here too along with Cargill/Nutrena. The small local mill uses monesin pellets in some of the custom made blends. I know a lady that has a custom made mix for her horses. She's lost some to colic, had mares abort, horses die, etc. Yet she insists it isn't the feed. I'm 99.9% sure it is.
I would feed Nutrena oats over buying from a local mill unless I asked a ton of questions first.
Thanks for pointing that out. I should have clarified a little more.
We have a great relationship with our local mill (which is small and does have cattle customers). They share their mixing schedule with us and they run minimum 3, many times 5 (with the last one being a 3 ton all stock sweet feed order) orders ahead of our custom mix when we were getting it there. It's not 100% fool proof but we have not had a single problem when were getting it. We talked to the guys mixing it in the back as well as the manager.
It's all about communication and being open with what our needs our. They never let us down, the local oat quality was poor for 2015 so I made the switch to renew gold.
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