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Location: Texas | GLP - 2016-03-20 12:18 AM
It is a conundrum for sure. All I know for sure is for my particular horse, processed feeds are poison to him. He has never looked better than he does now on his Omni cubes and coastal hay and Cur Ost. Thankfully, for now my feed regimen is set and I am RELIEVED! Lol
How do you feed the CurOst with the Omni cubes? Are you wetting the cubes? My horse that needs the CurOst products hates cubes! :( |
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| TBone - 2016-03-20 4:42 PM
GLP - 2016-03-20 12:18 AM
It is a conundrum for sure. All I know for sure is for my particular horse, processed feeds are poison to him. He has never looked better than he does now on his Omni cubes and coastal hay and Cur Ost. Thankfully, for now my feed regimen is set and I am RELIEVED! Lol
How do you feed the CurOst with the Omni cubes? Are you wetting the cubes? My horse that needs the CurOst products hates cubes! : (
Nope I don't wet them due to the whole flaxseed. I have found that once they get used to the taste of the Cur Ost, they shove the cubes aside to get to the Cur Ost. I have one right now though who isn't taking to the Stomach but she needs it full strength so I bought the Purina hydration alfalfa blocks that you just add water to. In a couple of days I'll go back to the cubes and see if she eats it that way. Right now she is eating it with no problem with the hydration hay. |
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Location: Peg-Leg Julia Grimm | Grains are high in starch but are not called "sweet feed". Sweet feed has molasses or some other sweetener mixed in to encourage the animal to eat it. I assume by RB you mean rice bran? Also not a sweet feed.
But starch is utilized as sugar when processed by the horse. Horses with PSSM 1 or 2 have problems processing starch or sugar. Molasses just adds another layer of something they can't process correctly. |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | OregonBR - 2016-03-21 12:29 PM
Grains are high in starch but are not called "sweet feed". Sweet feed has molasses or some other sweetener mixed in to encourage the animal to eat it. I assume by RB you mean rice bran? Also not a sweet feed.
But starch is utilized as sugar when processed by the horse. Horses with PSSM 1 or 2 have problems processing starch or sugar. Molasses just adds another layer of something they can't process correctly.
This! You can have a pelleted feed that is not sweet but has a high NSC (non-soluble carbohydrate) count. At the end of the day, sweet to me means just that, added sweetener, almost always molasses. |
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Location: West Texas | I would not consider it a sweet feed at all. As mentioned sweet feeds are typically molasses coated and are fortified over what are generally referred to as grain mixes. One thing to note is that pellets can have quite a bit of molasses too. I would label Ultium a sweet feed, due to molasses being the 4th ingredient, and coming before all of the following: Dried Beet Pulp, Stabilized Rice Bran, Soybean Oil, Vegetable Oil, Ground Oat Hulls, Ground Corn, Dehulled Soybean Meal, Flaxseed. |
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