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Location: MN | For those of you that feed a feed like Renew Gold or Enrich Plus, where you feed very little, how do you keep your horses energy levels up? I just recently switched to Enrich Plus for the winter since my horse will be just sitting until March and he is a VERY easy keeper. I could definitely tell a difference in his energy level at our last barrel race for the year, just no 'UMPH'. I usually feed Triple Crown Complete in the summer because that seems to keep him running strong and more on the muscle since he's a pretty laid back kinda guy otherwise, not ever in a hurry to do much HA! Ive really been interested in feeding Renew Gold for quite some time now but my biggest concern is him not having enough get up and go.
Id love to hear what you do for your, not so hot horse. Thanks in advance! |
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Location: West Texas | I think if you add about 2-4 lbs of oats split between two feelings you will get what you are after. |
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| Rice bran. I've fed both. I liked Renew but my horse dropped weight. Yes, his teeth were floated, wormed, and quality alfalfa. I had his blood pulled, all within norms, scoped for ulcers. Nothing. I switched back to Enrich plus adding rice bran and keeping with alfalfa. All his weight came back. His energy level is perfect. |
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Location: MN | Im not concerned with him losing weight at all. He can look at grass and get fat it seems lol. Hes on pasture all summer and when it gets really cold during the winter he has access to quality hay 24/7. Im just concerned with him not having enough run this next summer because I plan on keeping him on something like Enrich or Renew Gold.
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Location: Got Lobsta? | I added alfalfa pellets and an extra scoop of Rice Bran. |
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Location: Heart of Texas | I feed mine w/ a flake of alfalfa. Definitely notice a difference w/ the alfalfa. |
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| I feed my renew gold with oats and alfalpha pellets. They didn't lose any energy. But my spooky horse is less spooky. But still has plenty of go when I need it. |
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Location: MN | horsiace1025 - 2016-11-07 3:17 PM I feed my renew gold with oats and alfalpha pellets. They didn't lose any energy. But my spooky horse is less spooky. But still has plenty of go when I need it.
Thats good to know. I feel like my horse has maybe had a hard time adjusting to not so much sugar or 'sweet' taste that Triple Crown did. Do you like the results youve seen with Renew Gold? |
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| I added a pound of oats with my renew, wouldn't change a thing! He loves it and looks/feels amazing on it. |
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| Yes. I have one ulcer prone horse(out of 6) that I am having to adjust the extra stuff with it to get her fat but everyone else acts and looks really healthy. |
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Location: Piedmont, OK | I feed alfalfa and oats with mine |
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| I feed Platinum with mine during race season and he's on the muscle, but I may need to try adding Oats or Rice Bran for his off season. In the winter he's a big lazy sloth and I never thought it could have something to do with his grain! |
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Location: MN | To those of you that feed alfalfa and oats....do you weigh your alfalfa pellets before or after they are soaked? Or do you even soak them? I know people feed them both ways, so Im curious.
Also, could I mix the alfalfa pellets and oats all in one barrel? Im having to board my horse right now and dont want to make it hard on whomever is feeding my horse. |
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Location: Georgia | Kay-DRacing. - 2016-11-13 7:36 PM
To those of you that feed alfalfa and oats....do you weigh your alfalfa pellets before or after they are soaked? Or do you even soak them? I know people feed them both ways, so Im curious.
Also, could I mix the alfalfa pellets and oats all in one barrel? Im having to board my horse right now and dont want to make it hard on whomever is feeding my horse.
I weighed my cubes before I soaked them. I give two lbs of alfalfa cubes and 1lb of RG. |
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Location: Bandera, TX | Kay-DRacing. - 2016-11-13 6:36 PM To those of you that feed alfalfa and oats....do you weigh your alfalfa pellets before or after they are soaked? Or do you even soak them? I know people feed them both ways, so Im curious.
Also, could I mix the alfalfa pellets and oats all in one barrel? Im having to board my horse right now and dont want to make it hard on whomever is feeding my horse.
You can mix them. I feed 1 lb of each. My horse's range in age from 20 to weanlings. I have a super vitamin and mineral out for them. It's a regional mineral. Made specifically for our Hill Country.
I weigh before and I don't soak. |
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Location: Willows, CA | Changes coming next month, January, for Renew Gold availability. Renew Gold will be in stock and on the computer replenishment in every Tractor Supply store that carries equine products in the US. This means that when Renew Gold is sold, it is automatically replaced without someone needing to sit down in that store and reorder it (that is the case now). This should greatly increase availability of Renew Gold (over 900 more stores) and greatly reduce the chances of the store being out of product.
In addition, we will be working to increase availability in independent feed stores that can provide the knowledgeable support that only true feed stores can give.
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Location: Georgia | winwillows - 2016-12-07 2:31 PM Changes coming next month, January, for Renew Gold availability. Renew Gold will be in stock and on the computer replenishment in every Tractor Supply store that carries equine products in the US. This means that when Renew Gold is sold, it is automatically replaced without someone needing to sit down in that store and reorder it (that is the case now). This should greatly increase availability of Renew Gold (over 900 more stores) and greatly reduce the chances of the store being out of product. In addition, we will be working to increase availability in independent feed stores that can provide the knowledgeable support that only true feed stores can give. Win
Yayyy! Thats big news. Im lucky to have such a good TSC manager to that keeps it stocked. |
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| I saw it the other day in our tractor supply! I plan to start my 2 on it when they go back to work in the spring, sooner if the winter is hard on them |
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Location: Arkansas | Saw it for the first time ever at a Farmer's Co-op last week. |
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Location: Southern Oregon | Renew gold and a touch of whole oats and a flake of alfalfa twice a day as well as his field grass hay for munching. miracles were made with this IMO. My daughters gelding is a whole new horse |
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| winwillows - 2016-12-07 1:31 PM
Changes coming next month, January, for Renew Gold availability. Renew Gold will be in stock and on the computer replenishment in every Tractor Supply store that carries equine products in the US. This means that when Renew Gold is sold, it is automatically replaced without someone needing to sit down in that store and reorder it (that is the case now). This should greatly increase availability of Renew Gold (over 900 more stores) and greatly reduce the chances of the store being out of product.
In addition, we will be working to increase availability in independent feed stores that can provide the knowledgeable support that only true feed stores can give.
Win
This is very very good news!! |
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Location: Texas | I feed Renew Gold (0.75#) + rolled oats (2.5#) + herbs/supplements at each feeding (twice a day) to my big growing 3 yr old. He also gets lots of alfalfa hay and cubes (usually some of each), but I plan to go back more to using hay instead of cubes (that's a different thread). He has free access to excellent quality coastal bermuda which he mostly just wastes.
His energy is fine for me-I like him mellow!
The 18 yr old fatty gets same except only 0.5# of RG + 1# of oats.
His energy is always way way up there! |
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Location: MN | Thats great news!! If only I had a Tractor Supply close to me haha.
Luckily, my little towns co-op sells it! Doesnt stay on the shelf for long though. People scoop it up quick!
Question: With a fear of choke in mind- I know I can mix the oats and alfalfa pellets together in a barrel, could I add chopped alfalfa in there as well to help slow down the chewing process? I would be using Standlee products because that it whats readily available in my area. He doesnt get any hay in the summer time due to being turned out on pasture 24/7. Unless being hauled or stalled.
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| Kay-DRacing. - 2016-12-08 11:01 AM
Thats great news!! If only I had a Tractor Supply close to me haha.
Luckily, my little towns co-op sells it! Doesnt stay on the shelf for long though. People scoop it up quick!
Question: With a fear of choke in mind- I know I can mix the oats and alfalfa pellets together in a barrel, could I add chopped alfalfa in there as well to help slow down the chewing process? I would be using Standlee products because that it whats readily available in my area. He doesnt get any hay in the summer time due to being turned out on pasture 24/7. Unless being hauled or stalled.
Are you currently feeding oats or no?
I ask because I notice all of ours eat slower and produce a lot of saliva now that we're feeding straight oats. 3 of the 4 foam a bit at the mouth and the 4th absolutely drools. They have to chew the oats a bit more than pellets and that seems to really kick up the saliva production and slows them down.
I'd try the oats for a while and see how they get along with hogging their feed down before adding alfalfa pellets or chopped alfalfa. |
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Location: MN | OhMax - 2016-12-08 3:04 PM Kay-DRacing. - 2016-12-08 11:01 AM Thats great news!! If only I had a Tractor Supply close to me haha.
Luckily, my little towns co-op sells it! Doesnt stay on the shelf for long though. People scoop it up quick!
Question: With a fear of choke in mind- I know I can mix the oats and alfalfa pellets together in a barrel, could I add chopped alfalfa in there as well to help slow down the chewing process? I would be using Standlee products because that it whats readily available in my area. He doesnt get any hay in the summer time due to being turned out on pasture 24/7. Unless being hauled or stalled.
Are you currently feeding oats or no? I ask because I notice all of ours eat slower and produce a lot of saliva now that we're feeding straight oats. 3 of the 4 foam a bit at the mouth and the 4th absolutely drools. They have to chew the oats a bit more than pellets and that seems to really kick up the saliva production and slows them down. I'd try the oats for a while and see how they get along with hogging their feed down before adding alfalfa pellets or chopped alfalfa.
OhMax - I am not currently and he actually never has eaten just plain oats. Hes on a round bale all winter up here and he use to be fed Triple Crown during the summers and I'm wanting to get away from processed feeds. But thats a great idea. Thanks for the suggestion! |
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Another feed post...Renew Gold people come hither please!