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Location: Nebraska | I've had good luck with it! |
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Location: Iowa | We have two horses that are harder keepers that we top dress their Total Equine with a lb of Amplify. Really seems to be putting additional weight on them. Yes, it is more expensive; but worth it to add the additional weight on them for the winter. |
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Location: Northern MN | Warriors Mom - 2015-12-08 9:10 AM
If I am not mistaken Amplify is 80% or more extruded Rice Bran, with soybean/ or vegetable oil (can't remember) and minerals.
Edited to add I prefer Soybean Meal.....Cheap Cheap Cheap and readily available.
Where do you get soybean meal from? |
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Location: South Dakota | I tried soybean meal a couple times because it is so much cheaper. It seemed to cause some belly aches and it scared me enough to quit with it. I've sure heard of people feeding it though. |
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 My Heart Be Happy
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Location: Arkansas | Sandok - 2015-12-08 8:53 AM
I started my 23 year old gelding on it around September or so. He was just not keeping any weight on and I still had grass was feeding a little hay and he is on Bluebonnet but he just wasn't gaining like I wanted him to heading into winter. He has picked up a lot and looks great on it. Really boosted him. What I like is that you don't have to feed a ton of it. I am only on my second bag.
Dan just seemed to bloom all over from it! |
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Location: Iowa | I used it when needed on my hard to keep weight on horses. Loved it. I think it's 30% fat. |
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| zelma - 2015-12-08 3:51 PM
Warriors Mom - 2015-12-08 9:10 AM
If I am not mistaken Amplify is 80% or more extruded Rice Bran, with soybean/ or vegetable oil (can't remember) and minerals.
Edited to add I prefer Soybean Meal.....Cheap Cheap Cheap and readily available.
Where do you get soybean meal from?
I live in Louisiana, we get it from a local feed mill here, I can buy about 600lbs for 90$ ..... We mix it with salt, equipride, and alfalfa meal.....this is all out broodmares eat. I also add it to my weanling and sale yearling feed rotation. I found it to work better than Rice Bran, as nutritionally Rice Bran alone is not good for joints in growing horses and bred mares. For the reason of the calcium to phosphorous ratio of Rice Bran. Rice Bran is very high in Phosphorus. Horses can exist with higher levels of calcium over phosphorus, but not the other way around. Excess phosphorus will bind and prevent the absorption of calcium. When horses lack the levels of calcium they require, their bodies will ‘steal’ that needed calcium from their bones to compensate for the imbalance. Alot of people swear by Rice Bran to sell fit babies, the big farms here, that is what they use...however in the long run it just makes them grow and grow, and hinders join development. I would say 60% of babies I have bought that were fit for sale on Rice Bran alone developed OCD or Sesmoiditis before they were 5.
Edited by Warriors Mom 2015-12-09 8:24 AM
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | LRQHS - 2015-12-07 9:09 PM 1029 in the Juvenile tomorrow :) Cheer for us :)
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Location: Willows, CA | Stabilized Rice Bran (not raw) has a lot of advantages nutritionally over soy bean meal. It does need to be balanced with added calcium in some cases, but all the commercial stabilized rice bran labels are. If you want more calcium in your horses diet, there is nothing easier or cheaper to add. Raw rice bran is rancid, always, and should not be used. |
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Location: Vinton, La. | Love Amplify. That's what I sales prep on. Pretty darn good results with it. |
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Sparklin Cowgirl
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| I really like it. I was first introduced to it at my old job with drafts. It really cut down on the amount of "feed" each horse needed and kept everyone looking fat, sassy and shinny. |
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Location: Midwest | I buy rice bran pellets from my local feed store. I top dress 1/2-1 lb over a concentrate feed 2x daily. I always use stabilzed rice bran. This type has the cal:phos levels balanced so it does not cause the problems Warrior's mom was talking about....
I believe 40? lb is around 30-33 dollars. I have never had a horse get hot off of rice bran.
Amplify is good stuff too. I don't think you can go wrong with it. I have not used it personally but have heard really good things from those that used it.
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 Off the Wall Wacky
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Location: Louisiana | Does anyone have an ingredient list for Anplify? I looked on Purina's website and they don't list ingredients... |
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