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| I recently purchased a new gaming horse and the advice from the trainer was a senior feed with Yucca as an added ingredient. I'm just looking for recomendations on your favorite senior feed, especially for joint support without going to full MSM. Thanks! |
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| My favorite senior feed of all time USED to be Triple crown senior. But Since they are now milled by Nutrena ( Atleast in my area) the quality and consistency has really declined. Plus the Mills ( THat service my area) are NOT Ionophore free mills. They also produce medicated cattle feeds. I have heard on this board that Purina Edge Active is a good safe feed in that category. I currently feed a molasses free senior feed that is only available in my area so no help there. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | I REALLY like the Purina Active Senior. I use it on my really old guys and they look wonderful. They are about the only ones that get any grain around here. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I have to switch my gelding to a low low starch diet, and I feed Bluebonnet feeds anyway so I looked up their Senior feed pretty nice, going to go to the feed store tomorrow and see if they have it in stock, you need to check it out its called Intensify Senior Therapy,, it has 6% sugar and 6% starch. But I may go with a different one that has 7% strach and 3% sugar.. |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | RidenFly - 2016-05-23 4:26 PM I recently purchased a new gaming horse and the advice from the trainer was a senior feed with Yucca as an added ingredient. I'm just looking for recomendations on your favorite senior feed, especially for joint support without going to full MSM. Thanks!
Oh and another question, what were they feeding this horse befor you bought him? If you could maybe just keep him on what they were feeding. |
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| wyoming barrel racer - 2016-05-23 6:07 PM
I REALLY like the Purina Active Senior. I use it on my really old guys and they look wonderful. They are about the only ones that get any grain around here.
I fed this before.. I liked it but it's really beet pulp based and I own a choker .. if I didn't wet it down enough he'd choke on it... I'm now feeding the purina strategy healthy edge and I can't really complain. I've been wanting to switch to Blue bonnet but haven't found the motivation to drive to get it! I can't say anything bad about the purina sr active or healthy edge .... |
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Warrior Mom
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| FLITASTIC - 2016-05-23 4:31 PM
My favorite senior feed of all time USED to be Triple crown senior. But Since they are now milled by Nutrena ( Atleast in my area) the quality and consistency has really declined. Plus the Mills ( THat service my area) are NOT Ionophore free mills. They also produce medicated cattle feeds. I have heard on this board that Purina Edge Active is a good safe feed in that category. I currently feed a molasses free senior feed that is only available in my area so no help there.
I jumped on that bandwagon too.. bought 6 bags of it and I got tired of picking whole corn out of them... not to mention the bags were rock hard, I resorted to keeping the bags in my house during winter! Didn't even want to deal with it when it came summer time.. |
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Location: Beggs, OK | Why was the Sr feed recommended? If you have access to good quality alfalfa, skip the concentrates. My 29 year old mare has struggled to maintain for the past few years until we took her OFF of the Sr Feeds that were burning up her belly. Concentrated feeds of any kind are hard on their digestive system and are not natural. I've fed Purina Sr Active, Bluebonnet Intensify Sr, and others....none of them kept her as healthy and happy as she is not without any of it. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | want2chase3 - 2016-05-23 5:26 PM wyoming barrel racer - 2016-05-23 6:07 PM I REALLY like the Purina Active Senior. I use it on my really old guys and they look wonderful. They are about the only ones that get any grain around here. I fed this before.. I liked it but it's really beet pulp based and I own a choker .. if I didn't wet it down enough he'd choke on it... I'm now feeding the purina strategy healthy edge and I can't really complain. I've been wanting to switch to Blue bonnet but haven't found the motivation to drive to get it! I can't say anything bad about the purina sr active or healthy edge ....
I would love to try Bluebonnet but it is about 4 hrs away :( I soak the senior feed for the old pony 40ish...and the 23 yr old still chews great so I haven't had any issues with choke. |
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Hawty & Nawty
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| Not a great pic, but this is Doc Holliday. He's somewhere around 18 years of age and he was a cutter and reiner for years. He's a little stiff, a little sore and I'd like to find a feed to help any inflamation of his joints. He's a dream to ride and I'd like to piddle around the playdays on him. The previous owners seemed to love to show off his "Spin" and after awhile I don't think they thought about the wear and tear it can put on those old legs. He was on a alfalfa bermuda mix, but its summer time here in S. Arizona and personally, I lighten up the feed to grass. I'll do this slowly with him, but I want a gentle feed with natural ingredients for his joints. Yucca was suggested and I was told I might find it in some senior feed. I went ahead and bought Purina Impact senior. 
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| Considering age and use history I would be more inclined to use an injectable like Pentosan. If he was younger I would say adequan but he probably has some issues so Pentosan Gold would be my choice. His digestive system is less efficient now so feed throughs might be a waste of money. I would bet a load dose of pentosan weekly for 4 weeks then monthly would work wonders. |
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Hawty & Nawty
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| FLITASTIC - 2016-05-24 9:20 PM Considering age and use history I would be more inclined to use an injectable like Pentosan. If he was younger I would say adequan but he probably has some issues so Pentosan Gold would be my choice. His digestive system is less efficient now so feed throughs might be a waste of money. I would bet a load dose of pentosan weekly for 4 weeks then monthly would work wonders.
Thank you. I'll check into that. :) |
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Warrior Mom
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| RidenFly - 2016-05-23 10:32 PM
Not a great pic, but this is Doc Holliday. He's somewhere around 18 years of age and he was a cutter and reiner for years. He's a little stiff, a little sore and I'd like to find a feed to help any inflamation of his joints. He's a dream to ride and I'd like to piddle around the playdays on him. The previous owners seemed to love to show off his "Spin" and after awhile I don't think they thought about the wear and tear it can put on those old legs. He was on a alfalfa bermuda mix, but its summer time here in S. Arizona and personally, I lighten up the feed to grass. I'll do this slowly with him, but I want a gentle feed with natural ingredients for his joints. Yucca was suggested and I was told I might find it in some senior feed. I went ahead and bought Purina Impact senior.
Love his color! DAC makes a Yucca 5 Way pac supplement. You may want to look into that ? Feeddac.com |
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Location: Kentucky | I also used to feed TC Senior, but switched after I found out it was making my mare sick.
I've been using Tribute for awhile now and I love it. It's much cheaper than TC, and it's a safe feed. I do feed FORCO and THE with it for my barrel mare, who is 19. This is a picture of her last week. I didn't brush her or bathe her prior to this picture. Honestly we've had about three weeks straight of rain, so I'm surprised she isn't covered in MUD.
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| The horse in my avitar is 27 and gets free choice alfalfa and Equis Gold Senior. He still acts 10 and cleans up all his feed. The only other thing he gets is the supplement vitamins out vet makes and Amplify. I dont have to soak ot either, and my old man has no teeth left. I just personally wont feed Nutrena anymore. And he stays fat all theough breeding season. |
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Location: Heart of Texas | I tried everything and nothing compared to putting him on alfalfa and Renew Gold. He's TB so on top of being 18 he has a fast metabolism. He gets a heavy flake of alfalfa at night and 1.5 lbs of Renew Gold a day. Plus free grazing all day. Nothing I've found has replaced joint supplements though.
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