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| How much do you feed your horses a day and are they hard or easy keepers?
I have my mares on Nutrena Perform mixed with oats and like how they look on it but both mares dont gobble their feed down. Both mares go between eating hay and thier grain instead of chowing down.
I can get triple crown in my area but it is more like $20-$23 instead of $17 a bag.
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| really no one? i know there are tons of people on here who feed it. |
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| I feed mine the 14% performance, which is now discounted and I was switched to the Training formula. It's a 14% fat, but they haven't been on that long enough for me to change the amount they get.
I have a senior that gets one scoop 2x a day.
Yearling gets 3/4 scoop 2x a day.
One broodmare gets 1/2 scoop 2x day.
Another broodmare gets 1.5 scoops 2x a day.
Scoop is 3 quarts.
Edited by AfleetEquine 2014-05-09 4:37 PM
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| thank you! i just want to get an idea of how much I may need to feed if i switch. $5/bag is a big difference in price. |
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| It depends on the horse and how much higher in fat it is. I also look at vitamin/mineral packages as well. |
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| I feed the minimum to some who aren't doing much so 5lbs. I haven't fed it much in recent years but my performance horses were getting between 7-10 lbs split into a couple of feedinds. I fed performance until in was discontinued. I have fed the complete, growth, and now when I do use it I get the senior. I have had good luck with the sr for all horses. |
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Location: NC | I feed Triple Crown Complete. Do NOT add anything to it if you do feed it. It is designed to be fed alone, like most feeds, and adding oats to it will throw off the nutritional balance.
My colt gets 5lbs a day. My running horse gets 6lbs a day. They're both pretty easy keepers. I'm still building them back up to where they were before we switched to the crap I tried to cut costs. It didn't work. They looked and felt like poop. Switched back to TC and they turned around in about 2 weeks. Still improving every day.
I had luck feeding 6lbs to a really big hard keeping running bred horse too. You will definitely be able to cut back, being as it has more fat than what you're feeding now.
Love Triple Crown. Worth every penny in my eyes. |
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| I feed 1.5 quarts of the perform 2X/day and 1 quart oats 2X/day and equipride for vitamin/mineral supplement which i love and do not want to get rid of from my program to my main horse, the other mare I just got Wednesday so im transitioning her from a mill mix from previous owners to nutrena perform/oats. My main mare has always been picky and never been one to "attack" her feed and I thought it was just her till i got the new one. Although this new mare has been on a mill mix/sweet feed her whole life/been at the same place so that could be why she isnt very zelous about it either. |
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Location: WV | I feed the Senior to my 5yr old and my 9yr old. They both get about 5lbs a day and gobble it down. One is an easy easy keeper, the other is so so. She is ulcer prone but this and my THE has really done the trick for her. It's high fat, fiber and 14% protein. It runs me about $22 a bag.
Edited by mam0329 2014-05-10 9:35 AM
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