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| I am feeding Purina senior active as my main feed but am not seeing results that I like, I have been on it long enough to know that its not working for my horse. I'm planning on switching to a more natural easier to digest custom mixed diet for my mare that has digestive/ulcer problems and would like to know what other people are feeding. |
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | What results are you looking for? If it's weight, I've found that with the majority of horses, unless you're feeding absolute top of the line forage, you have to feed the most they recommend on the bag. Alfalfa & rice bran are my go to for weight. Beet Pulp I have had some ulcer horses go off of, and everything I have ever fed it to gets hot. I feed it as a pre-race boost & to stretch my hay. As far as ulcers, I let the horse's appetite guide me on that. Ive had two with ulcers that wouldn't keep weight on just forage, and wouldn't stay on the low starch feed they recommended. They would eat oats and barley so that's what they got & they did really well on it. But every horse is different. I have a horse now that won't touch alfalfa in any form, eats minimal bermuda, but loves grass hay and beet pulp. |
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| I am mixing my own. Oats, barley, beet pulp shreds, timothy pellets, topped off with rice bran, flax seed and THE Muscle Mass. I use Timothy pellets because my main forage is alfalfa with some orchard grass. I love the results I'm getting. |
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 Money Eating Baggage Owner
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Location: Phoenix | I sound like a broken record: alfalfa hay, grass hay, 1/2 lb to 1 lb of Renew Gold. Horse has never looked better, his coat is shiny and soft and I hardly groom him. He's 16 and there's a 6 month difference in the photo attached. I like my feed to be as little processed as possible.
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Red Bull Agressive
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Location: North Dakota | I loathe pre-mixed "complete" feeds. The ONLY processed/pelleted feed I will use is Renew Gold. I feed whole oats, Renew Gold, Alfalfa, and Flax. I started at 4lbs oats, 1lb RG, and 6lbs Alfalfa but my guy is getting a little too chubby so I'm going to reduce that to 2lbs oats, 1lb RG, and 4lbs alfalfa. You can feed up to 1cup whole or freshly ground flax, or in my case I just feed a flax supplement from Smartpak. Barring any specific metabolic issues, this diet is very easy to digest and works wonders to keep horses healthy and give them a fantastic bloom. |
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Location: God's country...aka TEXAS | Renew Gold & alfalfa. |
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 It's not my fault I'm perfect
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Location: Where the long tails flow, ND | 1lb Oats, 1/2 cup Flax, Cur Ost, Alfalfa, Grass Hay
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| JLBerry - 2016-01-18 1:02 PM Renew Gold & alfalfa.
Ditto. |
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 Off the Wall Wacky
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Location: Louisiana | I finally swapped mine to alfalfa, whole oats, and now CurOst as well. I am seeing great things from the diet change, and starting to notice a small change from the CurOst but we're barely 2 weeks in with that.
From the alfalfa, my leaner horse is looking better than ever. He's one of those horses that never has a flat butt across the top, much less a heart booty. Well, he's flat across the top, there is a layer of fat over his tail bone for the first time ever!! I can't wait to see what they all look like in the spring.
My fatty has lost his gut. No longer looks pregnant lol. |
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| Free choice hay. Free choice hay. Free choice hay.
I have never had any problems when I am able to provide this option to my horses.
If they are working hard I supplement with 1lb of Horseman's edge per day. Now that it is winter I switched to Strategy just because it was a cheaper option and none of them need any "extra" with what little riding I am doing. |
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| Thanks everyone! Pretty much what I had in mind to try, I'm also going to try some homeopathic remedies for ulcer prone horses since mine is. I'm going to be taking her off everything that is premixed and putting her on a totally clean diet. |
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| She gets good quality free choice hay as well. |
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| What are you doing for Ulcers? |
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Twin Sister to Queen Boobie
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | Thecowgirlinme - 2016-01-19 8:24 PM
What are you doing for Ulcers?
I've had three do really well on Horsepower Herbs. It's the mixture of marshmallow root, meadowsweet, licorice powder , and slippery elm powder that makes the difference. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | I've been feeding alfalfa and rice bran with grass hay and/or pasture for a year and it's been a long time since I was this happy with how everyone looks. |
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| Would Chaffhay work for the alfalfa part?
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 I Want a "MAN"
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Location: MD | I was trying to upload a picture. I've been feeding my horse alfalfa cubes flax and equi-min and she is so shiny! I don't blanket or hardly groom her lol
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Location: Kentucky | I leave for work at 6:30 AM and don't get home till about 5:00 PM. I have a very busy agenda, outside of horses, so finding a good quality commercial feed was important to me. I found Tribute Feeds and love it. I feed it to all three of my horses, and they are at ages 8 months to 18 years. It's easy and keeps them looking good. I feed a low startch because my 18 year old is ulcer prone. It's $14 a bag, and the feed store is about 20 minutes from me. I love it. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Jazz's Girl - 2016-01-20 8:32 AM Would Chaffhay work for the alfalfa part?
Yes. I fed chaffhay for a while, but not all my horses would eat it. The 2 oldies that I really wanted to eat it turned their noses up, but the others thought it was candy. The feed store didn't continue to keep it in stock...I think I fed most of their 1 pallet myself and several people returned bags. So I do soaked cubes and pellets now. |
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| Three 4 Luck - 2016-01-20 8:45 AM
Jazz's Girl - 2016-01-20 8:32 AM Would Chaffhay work for the alfalfa part?
Yes. I fed chaffhay for a while, but not all my horses would eat it. The 2 oldies that I really wanted to eat it turned their noses up, but the others thought it was candy. The feed store didn't continue to keep it in stock...I think I fed most of their 1 pallet myself and several people returned bags. So I do soaked cubes and pellets now.
Mine have no problem eating it. I was just curious if it was same. |
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Location: SW New Mexico | I feed as "natural" as I possibly can .
I don't care for the chemicals they use to bind the processed feeds together, especially in the pelleted feeds.
I do not feed sweet feed, ever. I feel they don't need the extra sugar in the molasses...
JMO.
I have a 1.300 # horse. He gets 1/4 C whole flax, 1C oats, and 1 C rice bran meal. 2 x Daily along with Equine Natural Care herbs. I feed Neuro,am and Structural Bld plus, pm.
All he can eat Bermuda grass and 2 flakes best quality alfalfa I can buy.
Dave looks and feels great!
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Accident Prone
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Jazz's Girl - 2016-01-20 10:13 AM Three 4 Luck - 2016-01-20 8:45 AM Jazz's Girl - 2016-01-20 8:32 AM Would Chaffhay work for the alfalfa part? Yes. I fed chaffhay for a while, but not all my horses would eat it. The 2 oldies that I really wanted to eat it turned their noses up, but the others thought it was candy. The feed store didn't continue to keep it in stock...I think I fed most of their 1 pallet myself and several people returned bags. So I do soaked cubes and pellets now. Mine have no problem eating it. I was just curious if it was same.
It's good stuff, IMO. My old horses are just weird. They like their soaked alfalfa, but if I put it in their bucket without rice bran, they will stand there giving me the stink eye until I fix my mistake. LOL |
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| That sounds very similar to what I am going to try. A friend and I have been doing a ton of research on the subject and have found that buying the products and mixing the our selves is a cheaper alternative to buying something like cur ost, same ingredients But a lot Better in price! |
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