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| I've fed Total Equine for years with no complaints. Lately however, the price is going up in my area (Virginia). I a looking at other options and would like some opinions. I feed Animal Element as a supplement and have 3 barrel horses for feed. I liked the fact that Total Equine is an extruded feed. All 3 of my horses are all running blood horses who can get a little worked up so I don't want a "hot feed." |
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| bkkelly08 - 2018-03-15 12:08 PM
I've fed Total Equine for years with no complaints. Lately however, the price is going up in my area (Virginia). I a looking at other options and would like some opinions. I feed Animal Element as a supplement and have 3 barrel horses for feed. I liked the fact that Total Equine is an extruded feed. All 3 of my horses are all running blood horses who can get a little worked up so I don't want a "hot feed."
I would start with a search first. There are tons of feed threads you can read here. There is one just above this one. |
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Location: Illinois | I loved TE but my dealer moved to another state and my 25 year old was having to eat like 9lbs a day to maintain weight. So I switched to Progressive feeds. I use the Envision, ProAdv Grass Balancer, and The Performance HF. I've been happy with the results. The old dude maintains weight on 1.5lbs of the Balancer and 1lb of the Envision and the barrel horses eat the Performance HF. The Perf HF is also 12% fat, so significantly more than TE was. However I have to feed a lot less of this than I did TE and it's an extruded feed.
Edited by JLazyT_perf_horses 2018-03-15 4:51 PM
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Location: NC | I was feeding blue seal sentinel performance and my horses looked amazing on it. Only reason i switched is because it was hard to find at local tractor supply. But its extruded as well |
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Location: Ohio girl moved to PA | I have had amazing results with Tribute Kalm n EZ. its low NSC, my boys love it and they look amazing. i pay $14 a bag and i go through about 1 bag a week with two horses. They only get 3 pounds a day, along with their supplements. Its never made any of mine hot. |
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Location: Texas | IMO, Total Equine is too much money. Nutrena makes an alfalfa based feed with a little grain and vitamins and minerals that's alfalfa based, and is about $9 a 50-pound bag. I feed a 12/8 pellet, low starch. |
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| I stopped feeding all commercial feeds especially if they are not clean milled. I now make my own up with oats, alfalfa pellets, peas, pumpkin seeds but could use sunflower seeds, chia seeds and and herbal mixture. My horses love it and are doing wonderful on it. You can use Crypto Aero if it is in the area as well. |
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Location: Louisiana | cutnrunqhmt - 2018-03-16 11:50 AM
I stopped feeding all commercial feeds especially if they are not clean milled. I now make my own up with oats, alfalfa pellets, peas, pumpkin seeds but could use sunflower seeds, chia seeds and and herbal mixture. My horses love it and are doing wonderful on it. You can use Crypto Aero if it is in the area as well.
I'm feeding alfalfa hay, oats, and sunflower seeds.
It's been over a month and I can already see positive improvements in my hard keeper, and the rest are looking better as well.
The thinner guy has really put on some weight through his hip area, it's mostly filled out now and hopefully with exercise I'll see good muscle start to develop! |
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Location: North Central Iowa Land of white frozen grass | I have mine made up at our feedmill here. Oats,Corn, Alfalfa pellets, Beet shreds, mineral, salt, soybean meal, fat. They only get 2 #/hd/per day.. $9 a bag. |
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Location: Georgia | Racer4eva - 2018-03-16 8:44 AM
I was feeding blue seal sentinel performance and my horses looked amazing on it. Only reason i switched is because it was hard to find at local tractor supply. But its extruded as well
Same. The Blue seal was so hard to find so I switched. I really liked the blue seal but I also REALLY like the TE so far. My horses are shiny and dappled out. My buckskin normally doesn't get this shiny or have dapples this time of the year. The dark bay never has dapples and she is starting to dapple out. Im really impressed. They are fat and happy on a half scoop a 2x a day and a large flake of alf 2x a day, free choice bermuda and different mineral/vitamin blocks. |
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