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Location: Here | I have a question for those that feed it, I bought a bag today and when I got home it had the strangest smell, like stale beer, is that normal?
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| I feed the Patriot SR to my daughter's 2 old mares and it smells more like alfalfa. |
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Location: Here | cinch - 2013-12-14 7:10 PM I feed the Patriot SR to my daughter's 2 old mares and it smells more like alfalfa.
thanks. that is what this was supposed to be. guess i will be taking it back. |
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| Is it small green pellets? Pellets are smaller than I like but so far no one has had any problems with them. |
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Location: Here | cinch - 2013-12-14 7:23 PM Is it small green pellets? Pellets are smaller than I like but so far no one has had any problems with them.
no they are a light tan
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Patriot performance is tan and has a different smell than the Sr. I like how the Sr smells and that's what I feed. I'm not sure what to compare it to, it doesn't really smell like alfalfa to me. |
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Location: Here | Three 4 Luck - 2013-12-14 8:10 PM
Patriot performance is tan and has a different smell than the Sr. I like how the Sr smells and that's what I feed. I'm not sure what to compare it to, it doesn't really smell like alfalfa to me.
thanks. now that you mention that it did have performance on the bag.
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Location: Bandera, TX | SG, I thought you fed "whole grains?" |
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Location: Here | uno-dos-tres! - 2013-12-14 8:20 PM SG, I thought you fed "whole grains?"
i do. but i also like to "test" other feeds from time to time
plus they were out barley and oats dont seem to agree with the mare. 
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Location: Bandera, TX | Have you ever used a mix of rice bran, alfalfa pellets, beet pulp with flax? If so, would you share your concentrations. |
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Location: Here | uno-dos-tres! - 2013-12-14 9:07 PM Have you ever used a mix of rice bran, alfalfa pellets, beet pulp with flax? If so, would you share your concentrations.
long time ago. talked to lots of people and i wont feed rice bran.
I have donr alfalfa pellets a long time ago with beet pulp and flax. i just have a large folgers coffee can and used 1 can beet pulp 1/2 can alfalfa pellets and 1 cup of flax
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Location: Here | uno-dos-tres! - 2013-12-14 9:07 PM Have you ever used a mix of rice bran, alfalfa pellets, beet pulp with flax? If so, would you share your concentrations.
thank you for reminding me of that. i think i will trade this stinky feed in on a bag of alfalfa pellets  |
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| SG. - 2013-12-14 8:20 PM
uno-dos-tres! - 2013-12-14 9:07 PM Have you ever used a mix of rice bran, alfalfa pellets, beet pulp with flax? If so, would you share your concentrations.
long time ago. talked to lots of people and i wont feed rice bran.
I have donr alfalfa pellets a long time ago with beet pulp and flax. i just have a large folgers coffee can and used 1 can beet pulp 1/2 can alfalfa pellets and 1 cup of flax
Care to share why you don't like rice bran? I've been considering it but I'm not completely sold on it. Thanks :) |
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Location: Here | wild_west - 2013-12-14 9:23 PM SG. - 2013-12-14 8:20 PM uno-dos-tres! - 2013-12-14 9:07 PM Have you ever used a mix of rice bran, alfalfa pellets, beet pulp with flax? If so, would you share your concentrations. long time ago. talked to lots of people and i wont feed rice bran.
I have donr alfalfa pellets a long time ago with beet pulp and flax. i just have a large folgers coffee can and used 1 can beet pulp 1/2 can alfalfa pellets and 1 cup of flax
Care to share why you don't like rice bran? I've been considering it but I'm not completely sold on it. Thanks : )
At a seminar back long time ago some info was shared how some horses dont process it well snd it was caking their intestines. I csme home threw the bag i had away and never tried it again |
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Location: Here | Flax is much better and provides so much more for the horse
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| SG. - 2013-12-14 8:26 PM
wild_west - 2013-12-14 9:23 PM SG. - 2013-12-14 8:20 PM uno-dos-tres! - 2013-12-14 9:07 PM Have you ever used a mix of rice bran, alfalfa pellets, beet pulp with flax? If so, would you share your concentrations. long time ago. talked to lots of people and i wont feed rice bran.
I have donr alfalfa pellets a long time ago with beet pulp and flax. i just have a large folgers coffee can and used 1 can beet pulp 1/2 can alfalfa pellets and 1 cup of flax
Care to share why you don't like rice bran? I've been considering it but I'm not completely sold on it. Thanks : )
Thanks for sharing, what kind of flax do you use? (You can pm me if you want, I don't want to steal your thread) |
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Location: Here | my feed store orders 50# sacks of brown flax for me. a sack lasts a long time. i used to grind it each day but now i just feed it whole |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | We can get rice bran very cheap here, since we're a major rice growing area, but the local stuff is not Ca balanced. The formulated mixes that contain rice bran are balanced correctly and bran itself is high in fiber even tho the texture can appear fine. I feed Healthy Glo with Patriot Sr and my horses have done fabulous. I do prefer whole grains on principle, but I've had horses the last few years that did better on the processed stuff so I just feed it to all of them. They don't get much grain anyway. |
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| What you are smelling is ANISE ... smells sweet with a very mild licorice tone to it ... if you have any anisette or ouzo liquor ... take a smell of it ... lol
It is a digestive enhancement to rid intestines of gas ... doesn't mean your horses are going to start farting by eating the feed. ...lol
I used to feed ADM Patriot Performance 14% pelleted feed to everything ... then they did what all of your major feed mills did to enhance their profits and marketing monies .... they even lowered the amount of GroStrong minerals in this feed ............>>> they changed their ingredients to human food and ethanol waste products and crap ingedients you can't even spell. .... Try finding the ingredients in a bag of Purina feed ... lol
I went back to Mother Nature and have been feeding rolled oats, alfalfa/corn beef feeder pellets and grass hay with one block of alfalfa/day. If you figure your ratio of each you can have a very balanced feeding program at a lower cost. I do buy the loose 25-50 lb bags of ADM GroStrong minerals to add to the above .. it is a very good mineral vitamin source and is formulated so horse can absorb the minerals .
IMO major brands of horse feeds and dog foods have really gone to using waste products and use marketing non sense to sell it to owners ...
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | I didn't think Patriot used Anise. It doesn't stink like Purina and Nutrena do.  Btw, the waste products from ethanol are actually a high nutrient content and very digestible. I'm sure real food is better, but it's not as bad as it sounds |
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