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Location: USA | What is the best thing to feed a the yearlings? Just wondering what you all feed. I'm keeping grass and alfalfa in front of him, but what else? Supplements, grain? |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | Fed mine Omelene 200 but thinking the Ultium Growth I kept her on as a weanling would have been fine too. She's going to be on Triple Crown Training as a 2 year old. |
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Location: Southern OK aka God's Country | Ultium growth |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | I really liked the Ulitium Growth. The ones we raise are out in the big pastures as soon as green grass comes their yearling year though. They get salt & mineral too. |
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Location: mi | Buckeye Grow N Win. |
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 Yup, I am confused too!
Location: Florida | Mine get the Triple Crown Growth along with Alfalfa.
Edited by Lil' D 2014-02-03 7:47 PM
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| Mine get Triple Crown 14% Performance (actually, I switched from the TC Growth to the Performance only because it was a feed that fit well for ALL my horses!) and he looks amazing on it!
Free choice O/A hay and a custom THE Muscle Mass blend, and beet pulp. |
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Location: Oklahoma & Texas | Mine get all the coastal grass hay they can eat, a big flake of alfalfa morning and night, and then nutrena safechoice mare n foal twice a day per label meaning I feed it per the directions on the label per lb of bodyweight depending on the yearing....all look awesome and are thriving. I feed it til they are 2 then switch to either original formula safechoice or performance feed depending on how they are being worked...we dont usually really start working one hard enough to need a performance feed til they are 3 so they usually stay on original til then and I just feed a little more alfalfa...
Also I have fed Ultium growth and loved it just not the price tag...it runs like 27 bucks a bag here which if I just had 1 to feed it would be a decent option but I have too many to feed at that price...the nutrena is a fixed formula and runs about 17 a bag here so far I've been real happy with it.
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| Mine is getting fed ADM Junior Glo along with some good quality bermuda and alfalfa hay. I also have Gro-Strong mineral available. |
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Location: Warsaw, VA | Mine get:
Heritage Professional feed
Grass Hay
Lysine
Animal Element Detox
Mineral salt blocks in pasture |
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| All my horses get the same feed just varies by body weight. I feed a 14% pellet feed. All horses have LOOSE minerals in the pasture. Coastal hay. Keep it simple. |
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Location: Alberta | Summer- pasture & mineral block
Winter- GOOD quality hay or alfalfa a cubes & mineral block
I don't feed any of my horses grain...even youngsters, I'm VERY lucky to have access to awesome hay! |
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| In the mare's tummy to 3 years old are the fastest growing and development times of a horses life .......... this is the time special attention needs to be paid to what these fast growing youngsters need ....
Know what fast growing stages of a horses life needs and adhere to that program ... learn what is in your grains and forages ....
and know what is trash and marketing jabber in high priced prepped feeds...
Looking at the feeding programs posted above should make buyers of under 2 year olds very nervous on what kinds of bone, joint and ligament problems they will see in the future ....
Read until you understand what this vet is saying ....
http://www.smartpakequine.com/content/ocd-horse
You have to start your feeding program when mare is bred and not after foal is born or later in life to prevent the problems that mineral / vitamin starvation or lack of a balanced feed program can create.....
I feed oats and alfalfa to keep the phos and ca in balance with 15% by weight of cracked or rolled corn for the carbs and necessary body building for high energy activity and to maintain them thru growth spurts.. my mix ends up being 14% protein .... along with loose ADM GroStrong minerals in their feed and free choice...... with 24/7 pasture or Bermuda grass hay ... I feed 6-8 lbs of feed mixture per day to keep them in athletic shape and not obese ....
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Location: mi | BARRELHORSE USA - 2014-02-05 2:52 AM In the mare's tummy to 3 years old are the fastest growing and development times of a horses life .......... this is the time special attention needs to be paid to what these fast growing youngsters need .... Know what fast growing stages of a horses life needs and adhere to that program ... learn what is in your grains and forages .... and know what is trash and marketing jabber in high priced prepped feeds... Looking at the feeding programs posted above should make buyers of under 2 year olds very nervous on what kinds of bone, joint and ligament problems they will see in the future .... Read until you understand what this vet is saying .... http://www.smartpakequine.com/content/ocd-horse You have to start your feeding program when mare is bred and not after foal is born or later in life to prevent the problems that mineral / vitamin starvation or lack of a balanced feed program can create..... I feed oats and alfalfa to keep the phos and ca in balance with 15% by weight of cracked or rolled corn for the carbs and necessary body building for high energy activity and to maintain them thru growth spurts.. my mix ends up being 14% protein .... along with loose ADM GroStrong minerals in their feed and free choice...... with 24/7 pasture or Bermuda grass hay ... I feed 6-8 lbs of feed mixture per day to keep them in athletic shape and not obese ....
This is why I stick with the Buckeye Grow N Win it is formulated to balance out the type of forage my foals are getting. |
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