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Location: The best kept secret in TX | jboop - 2016-07-29 12:23 PM Do any of you feed this to your yearlings? I have been feeding bluebonnet growth and development but at this point I have to find something more affordable and I have a range of ages yearling 2 7 9 12 14 and I am just trying to find a good feed that is affordable Hello,
I would suggest reading this thread started by Rachellyn80. I would also suggest sticking with bluebonnet feed over nutrena. You can search this thread with Rachellyn80's user name and it will pull upo every feed and nutrition post she has ever made. Also, contact WinWillows here on BHW (You can also do a search on the forums for his posts). He is fantastic and very knowledgeable about the scientific specifiactions on feed and feeding any type horse. http://forums.barrelhorseworld.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=466963&posts=50&mid=7216083&highlight=&highlightmode=1&action=search#M7216083
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | jboop - 2016-07-29 2:03 PM thank you sooo much No problem! Be sure to send both the BBs a PM. They are both wonderful with the sciences behind which feed would be a good choice. Better to have science than opinion.
Also, I see you are more of a lurker than a poster. Welcome jboop 
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Location: Florida.. | alot of horses do not do well on safechoice.. They dont hold muscle or weight.. |
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| My horses have always done well on safechoice. I do like the feed, but would like to experiment with renew gold and see how well they do. |
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Location: Northwest Florida | I've had good results with SafeChoice Perform. |
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Location: Lost in the swamps | Bibliafarm - 2016-07-29 9:28 PM
alot of horses do not do well on safechoice.. They dont hold muscle or weight..
This is exactly what happened to 3/4 of my heard when I switched from strategy to safe choice they all lost muscle tone!! and some lost weight too! Was not happy at all with safe choice! Though it would be easier to have everyone on the same feed because I had a few that came from another barn that were already on safechoice to just switch everyone. WRONG! they all dropped weight, and my personal horses lost muscle even the horses that were already on it lost because come to find out they were being fed 2x as much as the recommended amount!! and was feeding the recommended amount :/. Even got yo where I was having to feed 2x as much safe choice to keep weight on my own and not to mention was not saving me money at all!! Was very unhappy!!
Switched everyone back to strategy and couldn't be happier! I am able to feed half as much and All horses have put theirweight back on and muscle mass!! I was blown away with the changes in my horses in only three weeks being back on strategy!! I'll never go to safe choice again! |
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| My horses have done very well on safe choice. 2 on original, one on senior (basically made into soup, he's old, hehe). I have a very hard keeper OTTB that looks amazing compared to when I got him 2 years ago. Other than free choice grass & hay and mineral block, I don't give any supplements, except for one horse gets a hoof supplement because she has terrible feet. |
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Location: Georgia | My horses' ages are 13, 20, and 32. I've used Safe Choice Senior for years and they all do very well on it. |
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Location: Dubach, LA | Only problem I've had with any SafeChoice product is when I spend too much time on here and try something else. LOL. My very limited experiences with three vet hospitals confirmed my choice. All three fed SafeChoice Originals. |
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Location: Bastrop, TX | I now feed safechoice original. 1 have 3 on it. 18 mo old colt, 4 yr old & 7 yr old. All on coastal hay. I found that I had to use a kitchen food scale and weigh the scoop,set to zero then fill the scoop and get your weight of the feed. My scoop of Safechoice weighs a hair over 3 #'s. Whereas the same scoop of Stradegy Healthy Edge weighed a little over 2 #'s. I feed the 18 mo 1 & 1/2 scoops twice a day (9 #) which is the higher end of the recommended range. The 7yr old gets 1 scoop twice a day about 7#'s he is fat on air and the 4 yr old works so he gets 2 scoops 12#'s twice a day.
My point is all feeds do not weigh the same and you really would be surprised as I was when you weigh your feed, as I was in the difference between 2 pelleted feeds. So if your horses lost weight it may likely be because they were not getting the right amount. |
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| SafeChoice is a feed that you'd better know what plant it comes from. Not all Cargill plants are ionophore free. At least with Blue Bonnet, you know the feed is safe. Nutrena...not so much. |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | SKM - 2016-08-19 5:20 AM SafeChoice is a feed that you'd better know what plant it comes from. Not all Cargill plants are ionophore free. At least with Blue Bonnet, you know the feed is safe. Nutrena...not so much.
What SKM said. In my area Nutrena does NOT come from a medicated free facility and lied to me when I asked them about it. I did my own research and refuse to buy and feed their products. |
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Location: Texas | I haven't had problems with safe choice original. |
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Location: Oklahoma | Because I will only support ionophore free feed mills I will not feed Safe Choice. I fed it for years. I have been feeding only alfalfa pellets (Standlee) and Adeptus Augment (vitamin/organic trace minerals) along with free choice bermuda. |
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Location: Texas | I would just stick with the Blue Bonnet. They have a feed line called Equilene and it's cheaper than the Intensify line that you're feeding. It can be feed to all ages. It runs around $16. |
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| Tdove - 2016-08-19 9:30 AM
Below is my personal opinion:
Before I knew any better, I fed safechoice when it first came out. I am much more educated now and you could not pay me to feed it. Firstly, they have several different formulas, depending on where it is milled. Secondly, they use a least cost ingredient program with heavy byproduct ingredients. This means that even the same mill, from month to month or even batch to batch can have differing ingredients. You could be switching your horses feed each time this occurs and never know it. Thirdly, I don't believe in the big feed companies namely Cargill and ADM. They both have sketchy reputations for honesty and quality. Lastly, I just don't think the feed is that good for them. I have slowly transformed my program to a high quality forage and natural concentrate program, so the feed does not align with my beliefs on equine nutrition any more.
Just this week, we received a horse in for training. The owner feeds safechoice and asked us to wean him off of it and onto our feed, since we do not feed customer feeds to training horses. The next few days this horse would eat his Omnis cubes, get full, and leave the safechoice sitting there.
Perhaps this isn't the case with all horses, as I am the first to say that just because a horse likes something better or takes awhile to get used to eating something new, doesn't necessarily mean that it is better for them (in the first scenario) or not a good product (in the second).
My goodness that looks like a lot of grain! I've flip flopped back n forth from purina and blue bonnet and I always end up going back to the blue bonnet... I figured it's a bit more pricey, but then I actually realized I was feeding more of the purina.. the difference is about $3 a bag. But I feed less of the blue bonnet. Oh and when I first got back into horses after about 10 years off, I fed what the feed store recommended, which was safechoice . (Before I knew better) |
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