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| Has anyone used equidae? 1st ingredient is alfalfa. I feel like it would be a good feed for ulcer prone horses. I don't know a ton about horse nutrition, but it looks like good stuff! Would like opinions on it, esp from people if they've tried it.
http://www.equidaefeed.com/equidae-alfalfa-blend-horse-feed.php
Couldn't copy the guaranteed analysis but here are the ingredients.
Ingredients
Suncured Alfalfa Meal, Ground Grain Sorghum, Oats, Soybean Meal, Soybean Oil, Rice Bran Stabilized, Dried Beet Pulp, Flaxseed Meal, Monocalcium Phosphate, Calcium Carbonate, Salt, Selenium Yeast, Hydrolyzed Yeast, Zinc Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Zinc Proteinate, Iron Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Cobalt Proteinate, Ethylene Diamine Dihydrodide – EDDI, Cobalt Sulfate, L-Lysine HCL, Kelp Meal, Brewers Dried Yeast, Dried Trichoderma Longibrachiatum Fermentation Extract, Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus Fermentation Product, Dried Enterococcus Faecium Fermentation Product, Dried Lactobacillus Casei Fermentation Product, Dried Lactobacillus Plantarum Fermentation Product, Hydrated Sodium Calcium Aluminosilicate, Silicon Dioxide, Vitamin E Supplement, I-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate - Ascorbic Acid, Yucca Schidegera Extract, Niacin Supplement, Calcium Pantothenate, Thiamine Mononitrate, Biotin, Riboflavin Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Vitamin A Supplement, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex, Vitamin B-12 Supplement, Folic Acid, Vitamin D3-Supplement | |
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Location: West Texas | It is almost exactly like total equine. As with TE, I do not understand the sorghum, soybean meal, or the laundry list of added I ingredients. If you like TE then I imagine you will like this as well. It does have oats and flax, which TE does not have. | |
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| I'm not very familiar with TE actually. I'll look into it. Thanks! | |
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Location: Willows, CA | Tdove - 2015-12-13 7:05 AM
It is almost exactly like total equine. As with TE, I do not understand the sorghum, soybean meal, or the laundry list of added I ingredients. If you like TE then I imagine you will like this as well. It does have oats and flax, which TE does not have.
Since the stabilized rice bran and the flax is farther down the label than the soy bean oil, that would mean that there is very little of either one in the formula. Both expensive ingredients. When you see them close to added mineral ingredients on the label they are usually there to make the list read better, not to make the product more effective. This is a typical labeling trick for many feeds. | |
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Location: West Texas | Oh, I am quite aware of that ;)
You never know how much of each ingredient a feed contains because manufacturers don't list this..... | |
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Location: West Texas | I do not know if extruded alfalfa is beneficial or not to ulcers. When I fed TE, I had generally good results. I would imagine similar results with this feed and to be fairly expensive.
Edited by Tdove 2015-12-13 2:35 PM
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Location: Willows, CA | Tdove - 2015-12-13 1:42 PM
Oh, I am quite aware of that ;)
You never know how much of each ingredient a feed contains because manufacturers don't list this.....
While you can't tell the percentage relationships between the first few ingredients, you do get a pretty good idea of the amount of ingredients farther down the list when they are between those that are clearly included at very low rates per ton based on the analysis guarantee. In this case I looked at Soy bean oil on the upper side, and Monocalcium Phoshpate which would have a very low inclusion rate. That makes it pretty easy to interpret that the flax inclusion is not too significant to the overall formulation, but looks good on the label as a source of Omega 3 in the formulation. I have nothing against this product, with the exception of sorghum (milo) which I personally never put in horses, though I see that TE also uses that now instead of the corn that they added in the past. Nutritionally, Milo is basically "corn lite" with similar NSC numbers but at about 90% of corns. | |
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Location: Durango CO | I tried it on a couple different horses. It took them some time to get used to it becasue it has the texture of dog food. I tried the alfalfa version. My horses liked it and I would have kept feeding it but it is a little hard for me to get and I had a hard keeper who needed a lot so it became expensive. LeAnne and Haley Wolfe (Mia Fabulous Fame) feed it to their horses and all their horses look awesome!! They love the feed and they feed the costal version. | |
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