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Location: louisiana | Thoughts on it? Currently feeding omelene 200. Just curious one vs the other |
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| We feed strategy and although it works and is a safe feed for a boarding type style barn, I dont think it would be my first choice in a feed. My gelding is a harder keep in general and is worked heavily and I dont think he keeps as well on it. Our trail horses and stuff look great but its just not a very high quality feed for performance horses. I dont know how it compares to Omelene 200 though |
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| I don't like feeding processed feeds. Most feed companies are a least cost. The only two who aren't are Blubonnet and ADM. They have a guaranteed analysis and list every ingredient. It doesn't fluctuate. I feed Renew Gold and whole oats. I then add Platinum Performance CJ
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Location: WI | jw1990 - 2014-06-10 8:55 PM
Thoughts on it? Currently feeding omelene 200. Just curious one vs the other
I prefer Omolene 200 vs Strategy for my performance horses. All of mine get 200, and my futurity colt gets SuperSport added daily and he really looks like a million bucks and feels great.
My horses also seem to really like 200 vs a pellet but i think you get that with any sweet feed. |
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| I feed Omolene 500 and absolutely LOVE it!!
If I had to choose between the Strategy and the Omolene 200, I would definitely go with the 200. I have fed Strategy in the past and I was not a fan. My horses were ok on it, but I did not have the shine and the overall health that I do with the 500.
Just to warn you...there will probably be a lot of people that get on here and tell you not to feed Purina at all. I personally have had good luck with it!
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| I have fed both and found no real difference between to two feeds with my horses. the biggest difference is that strategy is less sticky/ messy than 200 and with omelene 200 you would always have a ton of birds in your pasture eating seeds from the manure and you do not get that with strategy... jmo |
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Location: Deep South | I've fed both before, and of the two I prefer the 200, the horses definitely like it better too. I've had a few picky eaters that wouldn't eat Strategy, never had one not eat the 200. |
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Location: Oklahoma | Is 200 similar to a sweet feed? I feed Strategy (wanting to change to Renew Gold at some point) and my guy looks pretty decent on it. He was on a 1:1:1 ration of sweet feed, creep feed and Purina Healty Edge before I switched him over to Strategy. I wanted him off the sweet feed as I felt he was just a little too spooky/high strung and I wanted to blame that on the sweet feed, but I'm realizing now it's probably just the way he is.
We're working on bulking up, but I feel like he looks better now than when I bought him. He's got a pretty shine, but that might need to be attributed more to his scoop of THE MM blend in the moring and 2 oz of RBO in the evening.
Anyone care to breakdown the difference between the two feeds for a non-nutritionist? |
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| I have fed strategy in the past .. My mare choked all the time on it plus looked terrible with it .. Omelene is more of a overpriced sweet feed .. So it is extremely high in sugar & starches . I work at a barn who feeds purina , every batch they bring has different ingredients.. There's no explanation for that besides being a least cost formula . IMO that company is all about making a dollar . Feeds like ADM & Triple Crown are fixed formulas & much higher quality .. The prices aren't really any higher than purina for better quality . Just my opinion / experiences :) |
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Location: Missouri | Fancy Lass - 2014-06-11 9:59 AM
I have fed strategy in the past .. My mare choked all the time on it plus looked terrible with it .. Omelene is more of a overpriced sweet feed .. So it is extremely high in sugar & starches . I work at a barn who feeds purina , every batch they bring has different ingredients.. There's no explanation for that besides being a least cost formula . IMO that company is all about making a dollar . Feeds like ADM & Triple Crown are fixed formulas & much higher quality .. The prices aren't really any higher than purina for better quality . Just my opinion / experiences :)
I second fancy lass... Everything she is saying is true. I have fed strategy and strategy healthy edge in the past and worked at the Purina farm and they are a low cost formula and all their feeds in my opinion are not worth what you pay for especially when you can get adm or triple crown for almost same price and some adm feeds are cheaper than some of Purina. I now feed adm PrimeGLO to all my easy keepers and they look great! JMO! |
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Location: louisiana | thankyal for the input, I have tried triple crown but my horse got to a point he wouldn't even touch it so I swapped to purina ultium and he didn't look very good how I would like him so then I swapped to the omelene 200 he looks great on it just lookin for opinions on feed and what is good for performance horses. |
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| jw1990 - 2014-06-11 10:55 AM
thankyal for the input, I have tried triple crown but my horse got to a point he wouldn't even touch it so I swapped to purina ultium and he didn't look very good how I would like him so then I swapped to the omelene 200 he looks great on it just lookin for opinions on feed and what is good for performance horses.
I hear ya on the triple crown ! I loved the feed but my horse did not really like it either .. I was feeding TC senior but she was very hard to get to eat it . I switched her to adm seniorGLO & she absolutely loves it & looks great on it !! |
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Location: TN | I've feed both but now I feed Strategy Healthy Edge and I'm much happier with it. Omolene 200 made the horses a little more hyped up but as others have said Strategy didn't put the glow, shine on them that the 200 did. Healthy Edge is higher fat, lower starch and my boy is doing really well on it. |
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Location: In a happy place | I sold a horse that then new owners put him on Strategy he seemed to go downhill over night. It broke my heart but I couldn't do anything about it. So my vote would be for the 200.
I really do like the ADM feeds. |
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Location: Willows, CA | I am a real fan of fixed formulation feeds. Purina makes an argument that they can't always get the same quality of ingredients so changing the ingredients is better. I really don't buy that. If your feed has a separate tag attached to the bag it is least cost formulated and, most likely different, every time you buy it. Fixed formulated products have the ingredient list actually printed on the bag, not a tag. Most of the ADM products are fixed. I was involved in that project for many years. The Glo part of the names originated from Natural Glo which was my company from 1989 to 2005. ADM was a distributor for me for almost 12 years and the Glo line evolved during that time. There was a time when most feeds were fixed formulation. Very few are today. |
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Location: louisiana | What is ADM? Ive never heard of it? |
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| I currently feed Purina Strategy to my performance horses and I am NOT happy with it. My horses look ok but i want them to look great! They also seem to have less topline than I would like. Now my one boarder feeds it to her good pole horse and her mare looks real nice and has a great topline but she also has the horse in healthy coat and lubrisyn (both supplements i cant afford!) Not to hi-jack the thread but I would like to replace the strategy with something to help add some shine without making them hyped up and spooky. Would Omolene 200 be a bad choice because of the extra sugars making them get hot? What would anyone suggest? Also of the Triple Crown feeds, what do you feed? |
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Location: Kansas | Love 200 but wasn't particulary fond of Strategy. I only fed it for a while because a horse I'd bought had been on it. I changed him over to a mixture of plain oats and Omolene 200. |
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| Nicole.Noelle - 2014-06-11 12:24 PM
I currently feed Purina Strategy to my performance horses and I am NOT happy with it. My horses look ok but i want them to look great! They also seem to have less topline than I would like. Now my one boarder feeds it to her good pole horse and her mare looks real nice and has a great topline but she also has the horse in healthy coat and lubrisyn (both supplements i cant afford!) Not to hi-jack the thread but I would like to replace the strategy with something to help add some shine without making them hyped up and spooky. Would Omolene 200 be a bad choice because of the extra sugars making them get hot? What would anyone suggest? Also of the Triple Crown feeds, what do you feed?
I Would recommend TC senior or complete . I have fed both & they have both done amazing.. I prefer the senior more due to the lower NSC % but if you have more of a laid back horse the complete is great as well!! The adm really put shine on a horse .. Mine are on adm seniorGLO & they just gleam :) but they were also very shiny on triple crown as well . I love both of those feed companies! |
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Location: In a happy place | jw1990 - 2014-06-11 11:58 AM What is ADM? Ive never heard of it?
Archer Daniels Midland. Moormans (I think that is right). Power Glo and Senior Glo are the ones I know about. You can look up ADM on googles they have a good website. |
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