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Location: Central Washington | Alfalfa Pellets
Whole Oats
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| 1# Renew Gold, 3# Alfalfa Pellets Soaked on some horses, and 3# of Roasted To Perfection on my bh. Love that stuff! |
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | We have 9 and a donkey.
5 of them get 1 to 1.5 pounds of Pinnacle Balancer, and 2 scoops each of beet pulp, alfalfa cubes soaked and divided up between 7 horses. Three are on a round bale of grass hay, the other 2 get 15 to 18 pounds of grass hay. (1,000-1200 pound horses)
One of my mares gets 1 scoop of Chaffhaye, 1 cup each of plain rice bran and soybean meal, Remission, part of the beet mix. She's on the round bale during the day and gets 10 pounds of hay at night.
One gelding is on 4 pounds of Total Equine (2 scoops), beet mix, and 10 pounds of grass hay. During show season he's on Super Sport. (1275 pounds)
One gelding is on 4 pounds of Total Equine, 1 scoop of rolled barley, 4 cups of rice bran, 1 scoop of beet pulp, all the grass hay he'll clean up at night, on round bale during the day..(1130 pounds)
My OTTB gets 2 scoops of oats, 1/2 rolled barley, 1 cup of plain rice bran, 1 cup super sport, Optizyme, Remission, half scoop Chaffhaye -- twice a day. He gets 5 pounds of top alfalfa at night, all the hay he'll clean up. (1350 pounds) |
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| Murphy - 2016-02-12 8:13 AM
I like the K.I.S.S method.
I feed 2-3 pounds of Tribute Kalm N EZ to everything I own, once a day. FORCO and THE as well. 24/7 access to grass hay.
What is the K.I.S.S. Method? It's mentioned twice in this post!?  |
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I just read the headlines
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| Canchsr5 - 2016-02-14 11:58 PM
Murphy - 2016-02-12 8:13 AM
I like the K.I.S.S method.
I feed 2-3 pounds of Tribute Kalm N EZ to everything I own, once a day. FORCO and THE as well. 24/7 access to grass hay.
What is the K.I.S.S. Method? It's mentioned twice in this post!?
Stands for keep it simple stupid. |
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Location: Tuttle Oklahoma | Easy Keepers Get 1lb Renew Gold
My hard keeper gets 1lb empower rice bran in the morning 1.5 lb Renew Gold during the day and 1lb empower rice bran with THE muscle mass at night. Just started muscle mass and have been on it for less then a week and already seeing results so may have to be cutting down to just 1lb empower a day. |
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 Poor Cracker Girl
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Location: Feeding mosquitos, FL | Three 4 Luck - 2016-02-12 3:15 PM 3 pounds of alfalfa pellets and 1 cup of rice bran per day (split in 2 feedings) with grass hay/pasture for my horses in training. The geriatrics are getting 4-6 pounds of soaked alfalfa pellets and 3 pounds of rice bran with hay/pasture and they are wintering great. They get cut down in the warm months when the grass is good.
So what made you switch to alfalfa and rice bran?
I've been thinking about switching feeds - my Seminole is getting more expensive and more molasses-y which does not excite me in the least. I've fed alfalfa supplementally as forage and ulcer control but never as the main course. |
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| Im feeding ultium but thinking about switching. I was feeding the Equine Sr Active. But the feedstore likes to run out when I do... |
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Location: Oklahoma | Free Choice Grass Round Bale
1lb KoolSpeed Plus
1lb Alfala pellets |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | TrackinBubba - 2016-02-15 8:32 AM Three 4 Luck - 2016-02-12 3:15 PM 3 pounds of alfalfa pellets and 1 cup of rice bran per day (split in 2 feedings) with grass hay/pasture for my horses in training. The geriatrics are getting 4-6 pounds of soaked alfalfa pellets and 3 pounds of rice bran with hay/pasture and they are wintering great. They get cut down in the warm months when the grass is good. So what made you switch to alfalfa and rice bran?
I've been thinking about switching feeds - my Seminole is getting more expensive and more molasses-y which does not excite me in the least. I've fed alfalfa supplementally as forage and ulcer control but never as the main course.
I was feeding ADM when the contaminated feed episode happened to a board buddy. The way that played out, I did not wish to continue doing business with them. 2 of the main ingredients in the feed I was using were rice bran and alfalfa meal. Stabilized rice bran is readily available and cheap for me, and it needs a calcium component to be balanced. So I put 2 on alfalfa and rice bran (started out with chaffhay but wasn't able to continue buying it locally), and 3 on Safechoice. After 3 months, there was a pretty clear difference between the 2 sets of horses, so I put them all on the alfalfa/rice bran and haven't looked back.
I said from the beginning, if anyone needed more energy, I'd add oats. I haven't felt the need to do that yet. |
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Location: Phoenix | Three 4 Luck - 2016-02-15 10:57 AM TrackinBubba - 2016-02-15 8:32 AM Three 4 Luck - 2016-02-12 3:15 PM 3 pounds of alfalfa pellets and 1 cup of rice bran per day (split in 2 feedings) with grass hay/pasture for my horses in training. The geriatrics are getting 4-6 pounds of soaked alfalfa pellets and 3 pounds of rice bran with hay/pasture and they are wintering great. They get cut down in the warm months when the grass is good. So what made you switch to alfalfa and rice bran?
I've been thinking about switching feeds - my Seminole is getting more expensive and more molasses-y which does not excite me in the least. I've fed alfalfa supplementally as forage and ulcer control but never as the main course.
I said from the beginning, if anyone needed more energy, I'd add oats. I haven't felt the need to do that yet.
You won't regret switching. I wanted something simpler. Attached photo shows Before on top, after is 1 year later on the bottom. (Stall runs a by downhill where he eats). He's really bulked up.
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Elite Veteran
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| I may have over looked it but those feeding alf. pellets what hay are you feeding with it? |
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Accident Prone
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | shubug007 - 2016-02-15 1:30 PM I may have over looked it but those feeding alf. pellets what hay are you feeding with it?
coastal. I would love to feed a different grass hay, but that's all that's available down here without trucking it in for a lot more money. My horses eat it well and look good on it, so I guess I shouldn't complain. And my hay guy is great. |
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| We feed Alfalfa here. I was feeding an orchid gras alf mix but this is about twice the bale and 2$ less. Its got a little grass mixed but not as much as I like
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 My Heart Be Happy
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Location: Arkansas | Three 4 Luck - 2016-02-15 2:08 PM
shubug007 - 2016-02-15 1:30 PM I may have over looked it but those feeding alf. pellets what hay are you feeding with it?
coastal. I would love to feed a different grass hay, but that's all that's available down here without trucking it in for a lot more money. My horses eat it well and look good on it, so I guess I shouldn't complain. And my hay guy is great.
Let's see if we have another thing in common---who's your hay guy?! |
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Location: Central Texas | Split into two feeding:
1lb Renew Gold
10-12lbs Chaffhaye
Forco maintenance dose
Free choice coastal |
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Posts: 672
| I wanted to start the Omni Cubes, but cannot get them out here so now feeding:
1/2 can or less of whole oats + 1C whole flax
2nd cutting alfalfa + pasture grass hay.
I really like the way my mares topline is filling out. I wish I took better "before" pictures when I first started them on this.
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Location: Ohio | 15-18lbs/day per day 2nd cut alfalfa/grass mix
2lbs/day of Tribute Essential K
3lbs/day of Tribute Resolve
Horse is 16.2 in moderate work |
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| I'm getting ready to give purina strategy healthy edge a try. Blue bonnet is just not going to be available where I live and the renew gold is tough to get as well. So for the last few weeks my horses have only been on 2lbs of crimped oats and 24/7 so-so roundbale. Also I'm wanting to give seabuck a try. Getting some for my chickens as well. |
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