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| Does anyone feed PURINA OMOLENE? If so which one, 100, 200, 400, or 500? Please give me your thoughts. My horses get grains only 2-5 times a week. They are on good hay, all day turn out, and very healthy. Currently they eat sweet feed, but I am looking to stop that. None of my horses are hot, but I do have one heavy horse and one that is 23. The 23 year old still works cows like he did when he was 10.
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| Omelene feeds are upwards of 40 percent sugar and starch. Not very good for a horse. |
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| Won't feed it anymore. My TB mare needed something to help her maintain weight and we put her on the 400. She went from the sweetest thing ever to a crazy, bucking fiend. We aim for 15% NSC (nonstructural carbs aka sugars and starches) or less but Omolene has around 40% which is nuts. There are much better feeds out there!
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Location: God's country...aka TEXAS | Omolene is terrible for a horse. Way too much starch and bad ingredients. Look for a low starch, high fat feed. Personally, I use Renew Gold. |
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 Saint Stacey
| I was feeding 200 as it was about the only safe grain I could find. My horses started looking like absolute crap. Started mixing my own oats, barley, beet pulp shreds, timothy pellets (my hay is mainly alfalfa), rice bran, flax with 12/12 minerals and THE. They all look amazing and feel almost too good. |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | I prefer the Ultium line if you are looking at a purina product. I feed my colt the Ultium growth and he looks great.
Omelene is a sweet feed, so if you are looking to move away from that, I would not choose this feed. I fed the 100 and 200 in the past and it just made my horse hot. |
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Location: North Dakota | I feed the Omolene 200. My horses are easy keepers and I would really only give it for the purpose of a "treat" after a ride and something to mix their T.H.E. supplement with. I actually measured it finally and I was giving 1/2 pound.
Trying to get a little "fire" from my horse as recommended from peeps on this board, I slowly increased it to around 2 or 2 1/2 pounds daily and I did get some extra pep from him! Nothing crazy though.
I guess I've been happy with it, but really haven't fed THAT much compared to some people.
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Location: WI | I feed Impact pellet to all of my horses mostly to maintain but they all look really good on this feed. And it is reasonably priced. I am very happy with it.
I do have one mare who is my high maintenance mare - she sticks her nose up to pellet feed... I tried Ultium last summer with her as she needs the grain to keep weight on but I wasn't overall sold on how she looked. She did eat it but was picky about it. I put her back on Omolene 200 as well as added beet pulp and she has blossomed since. I'm very happy with how she looks now and yes she has energy but she has always been an "uppity" mare, whether she is on feed or not. |
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Location: Lost in the swamps | i feed omolene 200 to 1 horse because of preventing potassium issues (halter horse), I feed 1/2# to keep my horse from stealing the others feed. (only reason I feed it) if your pastures and hay are really good and only going to feed a few times a week I would try a grass ration balancer and vitamin/mineral supplement.
Edited by imturnin3 2016-01-06 9:02 AM
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Red Bull Agressive
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Location: North Dakota | I would steer clear of Omolene...or any commercial feed really...Renew Gold is the only one I like and even so that is only part of my feeding program. |
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Location: Utah | I have one horse that I feed Omolene 400. It is a complete feed. He is not able to eat any hay and this provides everything he needs. I personally think if you are looking for a feed to add to your hay diet there are quite a few better and cheaper alternatives. This horse has had the omolene 400 and a limited amount of oats for 6 years and has done well. |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | I fed 200 before I knew any better... Bad idea. My mare started rearing at the trailer, pawing, she had ulcer flare ups, and she started setting back and biting... It was a nightmare. She fired so hard and wouldn't rate at all, just did her own thing in the arena regardless of how many trainers I took her too. I never thought twice about what I was feeding her. Pure sugar and starch.
One day at a jackpot she ran past the first barrel and fell really hard trying to turn back to the barrel.She was fighting me the whole time I was asking her to slow down for the turn. She broke her hip and displaced mine, and was pronounced breeding sound only that summer. She still walks with a limp.
Omolene and I, ruined my mare.  |
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 No Name Nancy
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Location: never in the right place | Omelene is sweet feed, so if you are looking to stop, don't use that. I am currently feeding Purina healthy edge pellets, seems to be ok. I was feeding Omelene 100 but the molasses consistancy is aweful. a few bags were really full of molasses. I feed Purina because it is Ionosphore free. |
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"Heck's Coming With Me"
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Location: Kansas | ctdrumrunr - 2016-01-06 1:08 PM Omelene is sweet feed, so if you are looking to stop, don't use that. I am currently feeding Purina healthy edge pellets, seems to be ok. I was feeding Omelene 100 but the molasses consistancy is aweful. a few bags were really full of molasses. I feed Purina because it is Ionosphore free.
Keeps our old horses fat and happy mixed with Equine Senior. It's worth the extra cost. Seems a lot of people like to blame their horses bad behavior on their feed choices. |
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| I have fed 200 and was happy with it. I started using it when I was at a place where my horses weren't getting much riding, and I was competing much, but I didn't have great grass/pasture. All of mine are easy keepers, and they did great with it. I continued to feed it when we moved to a place where we were riding more and I also had 2 huge very grassy pastures. (They've always been 24/7 turnout, besides during inclement weather). I was happy with it for my situation, until I just quit feeding because I realized they were staying fat on grass and hay, and I didn't need to feed to keep weight on them. |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | Frodo - 2016-01-06 1:42 PM
ctdrumrunr - 2016-01-06 1:08 PM Omelene is sweet feed, so if you are looking to stop, don't use that. I am currently feeding Purina healthy edge pellets, seems to be ok. I was feeding Omelene 100 but the molasses consistancy is aweful. a few bags were really full of molasses. I feed Purina because it is Ionosphore free.
Keeps our old horses fat and happy mixed with Equine Senior. It's worth the extra cost. Seems a lot of people like to blame their horses bad behavior on their feed choices.
Had to lol
My horse never had bad behavior per say, but he definitely had extra unnecessary energy on the 200.
I've never had that experience with other feeds. |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas |  Bumping up for the BB that asked about Omolene 200
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| I use Omolene 200 and I love it. I use it on my main rodeo horse and feed it to all the others. I have used it for my off the track guy who I haven't been able to keep weight on and he looks good with it. I haven't had horses act bad on it. I already have horses that are just full of it anyways and didn't really notice they were worse on it. |
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