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Location: Texas | I'm looking to put my broodmare on a full senior feed diet. What brand do you feed?? What else do you feed them? Soaked beet pulp?
She's a chronic choker, and it's becoming a huge problem. She spent last night in the horsey ICU at Texas Equine from her last episode. She has no physical problems, she's simply a pig and bolts her food. So she now has a large pan, soupy food and bricks in her barrel. Last time she choked was in August, strictly my fault on that. She got into dry pellets when I was walking her by a bucket. She was fine for months with the pellets in my hometown. But recently i moved to another city and the pellets at the feed mill dont breakdown. It's quickly become an expensive problem. I'd rather spend a few extra dollars a month on senior feed then a huge vet bill. |
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Location: Texas | The choker that I have that gets grain is on 3lbs Triple Crown Senior and 1 lb Renew Gold (once a day), plus free choice good quality coastal. Haven't had any problems.
We ride her 20-30 miles a week and she's fine. |
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Location: Texas | I feed my senior horse Purina Senior. He does well on it. He doesn't have any molars so he has problems with hay. He chews and chews but it just balls up so he doesn't get Any hay. |
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  A Lady with Fight
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Location: NC | Triple Crown Senior. Best senior feed out there. All of mine are on it. We feed 6lbs a day. The pellets are very soft & are easily made into a mash within a minute.
It's all I feed besides THE Muscle Mass. It's beet pulp based and is 10% fat so I don't add more to it. It's great stuff. |
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 Underestimated Underdog
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Location: Minnesota | ADM SeniorGlo. All three of mine are on it and they do great. I also have them on Aloe Vera juice. |
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| After trying several different senior feeds we have had the best results with ADM Senior Glo. We have also fed alfalfa pellets or soaked alfalfa cubes to old horses with dental problems. |
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 Warmblood with Wings
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Location: Florida.. | triple crown or adm are both great.. check the fat %.. purina is lower in fat.. |
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 Ms. Manners
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Location: Oklahoma | WE don't have Triple Crown locally, so I ended up switching my 27 and 28-year olds to Nutrena Sr. It has 8% fat compared to Purina Sr. which only has 5.5%. I add nothing else, but they get 10 lbs. a day since they are unable to chew hay.
If you want the horse to have more "chew time," than two meals of Sr provides, consider adding soaked beet pulp - with some alfalfa pellets or cubes added if you think the diet requires it.
Another consideration . . . I have seen plenty of chokes even on Sr feed. Take into consideration how your horse eats and you may want to get a feed pan with a large base so the feed is more spread out. I had one chronic choker who I decided to give a peppermint to before each meal to see what happened - caused her to produce more saliva and, in turn, prepare her mouth and esophagus for the meal. Only other time she choke after that is when she did not get a peppermint. Just a few ideas :) |
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| ADM Sr Glo |
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 Triple Extra-Ordinaire
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Location: Okla | We built a long trough in the stall. Fed a senior and spread it along the lenth of the trough, so he couldn't bolt his food. He got the full amount of senior each feeding, since he couldn't eat hay. |
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Warmblood with Wings
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Location: Florida.. | I add water to make mine more soupy mushy |
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 If it Ain't a Paint it Ain't!
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Location: Mansfield, Tx | ADM Senior Feed he gets about 12-15 lbs daily
He doesn't get any hay or anything else he can't chew it
He hates soaked beet pulp.. ( walks away from his feed)
I can't find alfalfa pellets. |
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Location: On a paint horse... | Just lost my 32 year old mare this fall but she had no teeth (and would choke on hay) so for years I fed her a mix of Purina senior, rice bran, and alfalfal pellets. Soaked it in hot water so it absorbed within 10 minutes. She loved it and she held her weight til the very end! |
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Nothing Comes Easy
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Location: Texas | Thanks for the suggestions. Her bin is large and her food was soaked before. I simply was having problems with the feed fully breaking down. These pellets would still have chunks and then there were corn pieces. So I have her on Standlee pellets that are soaked over night. But I'm also going to put her on senior feed and maybe beet pulp. Her food is soupy and she takes quite a while to drink it down. So hopefully that'll keep her safe.
I was curious in how much everyone was feeding their senior horses senior feed. My mare is 8 months pregnant so the more feed she gets right now the better. |
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Perky Gal
Location: On a paint horse... | I made mine in a bucket in the bathtub so I could fill it with HOT water. It broke down pretty quickly (although no corn) in hot water. She really seemed to enjoy it on the cold days, when it warmed her tummy  |
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Triple Extra-Ordinaire
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Location: Okla | It's been a while, but I remember a Purina Senior pellet would break down in just a a couple drops of water. Our old horse, wouldn't eat a mush, so that's why we built the long feeder and spread it out. |
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 The Comeback Kid
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Location: lost in missouri | I had a chronic choker. As he aged he devoloped cancer and it blocked part of his passage so his problem became even more to deal with and as he aged and wore his teeth down he became quite entertaining to stay one step ahead of on weight management. He spent the last 10 years of his life on purina senior, rice bran, beet pulp and alfalfa cubes or the alfalfa/ timothy mix cubes whichever was on sale. Soaked with water still standing in it so it was kinda soupy. he looked great until the day the good lord took him.
I only had him on rice bran during the winters.
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A Lady with Fight
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Location: NC | Stride - 2013-12-26 1:01 PM
Thanks for the suggestions. Her bin is large and her food was soaked before. I simply was having problems with the feed fully breaking down. These pellets would still have chunks and then there were corn pieces. So I have her on Standlee pellets that are soaked over night. But I'm also going to put her on senior feed and maybe beet pulp. Her food is soupy and she takes quite a while to drink it down. So hopefully that'll keep her safe.
I was curious in how much everyone was feeding their senior horses senior feed. My mare is 8 months pregnant so the more feed she gets right now the better.
I had a SUPER hard keeper. 10lbs a day put the weight right back on him, along with THE Muscle Mass. After he gained the weight, 8lbs kept it on him.
You can start big & adjust as needed. You'll feed less of a GOOD feed like ADM or Triple Crown as opposed to more junky feed like Purina. Fat content also plays a big role. |
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| Morab76 - 2013-12-26 12:31 AM
WE don't have Triple Crown locally, so I ended up switching my 27 and 28-year olds to Nutrena Sr. It has 8% fat compared to Purina Sr. which only has 5.5%. I add nothing else, but they get 10 lbs. a day since they are unable to chew hay.
If you want the horse to have more "chew time," than two meals of Sr provides, consider adding soaked beet pulp - with some alfalfa pellets or cubes added if you think the diet requires it.
Another consideration . . . I have seen plenty of chokes even on Sr feed. Take into consideration how your horse eats and you may want to get a feed pan with a large base so the feed is more spread out. I had one chronic choker who I decided to give a peppermint to before each meal to see what happened - caused her to produce more saliva and, in turn, prepare her mouth and esophagus for the meal. Only other time she choke after that is when she did not get a peppermint. Just a few ideas :)
Purina has a 10% now - ProForce Senior. But check it's availability locally. |
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A Lady with Fight
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Location: NC | AfleetEquine - 2013-12-26 9:11 PM
Morab76 - 2013-12-26 12:31 AM
WE don't have Triple Crown locally, so I ended up switching my 27 and 28-year olds to Nutrena Sr. It has 8% fat compared to Purina Sr. which only has 5.5%. I add nothing else, but they get 10 lbs. a day since they are unable to chew hay.
If you want the horse to have more "chew time," than two meals of Sr provides, consider adding soaked beet pulp - with some alfalfa pellets or cubes added if you think the diet requires it.
Another consideration . . . I have seen plenty of chokes even on Sr feed. Take into consideration how your horse eats and you may want to get a feed pan with a large base so the feed is more spread out. I had one chronic choker who I decided to give a peppermint to before each meal to see what happened - caused her to produce more saliva and, in turn, prepare her mouth and esophagus for the meal. Only other time she choke after that is when she did not get a peppermint. Just a few ideas :)
Purina has a 10% now - ProForce Senior. But check it's availability locally.
I believe that's Nutrena. And it's comparable to Triple Crown Senior.
But only available in certain states. |
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