draftmare - 2018-05-07 11:17 AM


I feed it as a supplement instead of having to feed a liquid fat. Most oils are super unbalanced in Omega-6s which can lead to inflammation. With my mare being recently diagnosed with arthritis I wanted to get her off of the oil ASAP. I have read of people feeding just RG and then their supplements, but I would think you would need to add some kind of vitamin or mineral supplement to that.

Southtxponygirl - 2018-05-07 11:17 AM


So this is more of a supplement that you can add to your feeding program, is that what I am reading? I can get really confused easy so be kind to me, lol.. 

winwillows - 2018-05-07 2:36 PM Most of our customers will not feed additional grain based feed. All horses are different. But, with quality roughage, additional concentrate feeds are usually not necessary.

winwillows - 2018-05-07 5:02 PM First off, Bluebonnet is a good company that makes safe products. It seems like today is my day for IR horses. I might go a week without a question about one, then have a day like today where I get questions from three owners about their IR horses. In general, keeping the sugar load low per feeding is important. Renew Gold is proving safe for these horses because you get hind gut efficiency for better digestion of the roughage, without a big slug of sugar all at one time because of the low feeding rates. If you feel that your hay quality requires additional calories for condition and you don't have access to better hay to solve that issue that way, a combination of Renew Gold and additional concentrates can be used. I greatly prefer just Renew Gold and perhaps a little more alfalfa along with soaked grass hay when feeding IR horses to keep the total concentrate inclusion small. This generates energy without the blood sugar spike associated with larger inclusions of concentrate, even low NSC concentrate. In any case, I would limit the total combination of concentrate, if you choose to go that route, to less than 1.5 pounds per feeding in a IR horse. You can stretch this a little on horses that are not IR. Even then, I like to keep concentrate to no more than 2 pounds per feeding.

Southtxponygirl - 2018-05-07 5:14 PM


Thank you Win I will past this along to my friend and I will just keep everything simple for my guys, they are beefy and look great with a shine that looks like glass so I guess they really dont need much of anything now, but I sure will pass this along to my friend that has trouble keeping weight on one horse. Thanks again  

winwillows - 2018-05-07 5:02 PM

First off, Bluebonnet is a good company that makes safe products. It seems like today is my day for IR horses. I might go a week without a question about one, then have a day like today where I get questions from three owners about their IR horses. In general, keeping the sugar load low per feeding is important. Renew Gold is proving safe for these horses because you get hind gut efficiency for better digestion of the roughage, without a big slug of sugar all at one time because of the low feeding rates. If you feel that your hay quality requires additional calories for condition and you don't have access to better hay to solve that issue that way, a combination of Renew Gold and additional concentrates can be used. I greatly prefer just Renew Gold and perhaps a little more alfalfa along with soaked grass hay when feeding IR horses to keep the total concentrate inclusion small. This generates energy without the blood sugar spike associated with larger inclusions of concentrate, even low NSC concentrate. In any case, I would limit the total combination of concentrate, if you choose to go that route, to less than 1.5 pounds per feeding in a IR horse. You can stretch this a little on horses that are not IR. Even then, I like to keep concentrate to no more than 2 pounds per feeding.