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| All the research I've done on it....seems great BUT people claim to be feeding only 4 lbs per day? My fear is I'm going to pay 25 per bag and still have to feed 10 lbs. Hello can't afford that for 2 horses :/ |
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 Ms Bling Bling Sleeze Kitty
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Location: LouLouVille, OK | what particular feed are you looking at? Ive fed their Natures blend for about 4 yrs now and love it and it isnt near that high priced.
But yes, my horses all look and feel great, and I feed them right about 3-4 lbs a day some the 4lb and others less.. |
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 Tough Patooty
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Location: Sperry, OK | I feed the Intensify Omega Force and my horses look better than they ever have! I have even cut back to 1 feeding per day, so I am feeding about 1/2 of what I used to feed. |
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 Go For It!
Location: Texas | I don't think ANY feed is really all it's hyped up to be, lol. I've fed so many different feeds over the years and always seem to go back to the basics... Crimped Oats, alfalfa hay and good pasture. It seems like I have always had horses that were really easy keepers and could do great on pasture alone. But I'm kind of a clean eater myself... I stay away from processed foods and do more fresh fruits and veggies. I think I carry that mantra with me to the barn... my cats, dogs, chickens and horses all eat pretty clean too, lol.
I do add a little Canola oil to keep the dust down and a multivitamin when I'm hauling, but that's about it. And I think they look and feel great. So you just have to play with things and see what works for your particular horse.
I only feed 1 small coffee can of oats per day (even when I'm hauling) but will add a 1/3 C of oil to it for some extra an calories. But plenty of good quality alfalfa hay too. I know it doesn't sound like much, but it works great for them.
Good luck!
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| grinandbareit - 2014-11-03 8:27 AM I don't think ANY feed is really all it's hyped up to be, lol. I've fed so many different feeds over the years and always seem to go back to the basics... Crimped Oats, alfalfa hay and good pasture. It seems like I have always had horses that were really easy keepers and could do great on pasture alone. But I'm kind of a clean eater myself... I stay away from processed foods and do more fresh fruits and veggies. I think I carry that mantra with me to the barn... my cats, dogs, chickens and horses all eat pretty clean too, lol. I do add a little Canola oil to keep the dust down and a multivitamin when I'm hauling, but that's about it. And I think they look and feel great. So you just have to play with things and see what works for your particular horse. I only feed 1 small coffee can of oats per day (even when I'm hauling) but will add a 1/3 C of oil to it for some extra an calories. But plenty of good quality alfalfa hay too. I know it doesn't sound like much, but it works great for them. Good luck!
I am like Joy, I eat pretty clean myself and feed my horses the same. They do not get grain. They get alfalfa hay, renew gold, a little saoked molasses free beet pulp for volume to put it in- vitamins and pro biotic when hauling. I don't run hard but when one of my daughters decide to go horses still clock in the 1D. |
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Location: Texas! | It truly is a great feed, they've put a lot of research into their feed and the locked formula open tag is what I appreciate about them. The 4 lbs is the minimum feeding rate that your horse will still get all their required nutrients without supplementation. Most horses I've seen on it are maintaining weight at the 4-6 lb suggested feed rates. I fed mine 8 lbs to start bc I needed weight on them but have since backed down to the 4 lbs. I have a great pix of my Broodmare after thirty days on it let me see if it will post. Plus, at $25 a bag if you are feeding 10 lbs of another feed you are cutting your feed in half so depending on the cost per bag of your other feed is what you need to look at. Their nutritionist will do cost and nutrition analysis for you which I loved! ETA: will post pic after work when I can resize.
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Location: Texas! | I was also just sent this from my rep. on calorie content vs leading name brands.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I really like BlueBonnet feeds, wish we had someone near by that sold it, when I lived in the Valley {border} this was the only feed that I used on my horses, but here no body sells it that I know of. |
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| I feed intensify senior & LOVE it!!! It's a 14% protein/8%fat, low starch. I don't feed much & they look & feel great! Highly recommend it! |
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| I've been feeding my mare the Omega Force for about ten months. i started out feeding her 2 pounds twice a day, but went up to 3 pounds twice a day. She is on good pasture and all the bermuda grass hay she wants (she eats very little with the grazing right now). She stands a solid 15.1 and is a big mare. Her hair coat is good, she's carrying good flesh and her tail is longer than it's ever been. I was riding her 4 to 5 days a week when she was on 6 pounds a day. I am giving her some time off so have her at 1.5 pounds twice a day with a 3 pound flake of alfalfa once daily as the nights are starting to get cool. You can get by on less poundage of feed, but remember the horse is a grazing animal so needs hay or grass to keep the stomach/intestines full. |
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | I fed it (Intensify Omega Force) for a couple of months and really, really liked it. I fed 4lbs a day and it was $23/bag. I was going thru 2.5 bags a month. Was much cheaper than the Purina Strategy I was feeding. I really didn't *want* to stop feeding it (my gelding looked absolutely amazing on it), but my gelding tied up on me once while he was on it (and to be honest it probably wasn't the feed, but numerous other factors that went on before that race) and when I saw that it had a 17% NSC value (someone correct me if I'm wrong!) and suspected my gelding was a PSSM horse I switched over to Renew Gold and that's what I've been feeding for the past two and a half months. If for some reason I stopped liking the Renew Gold I would probably give the IOF another shot since I'm much more educated on tying up and what other factors can trigger it. |
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  Angel in a Sorrel Coat
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Location: In a happy place | grinandbareit - 2014-11-03 8:27 AM I don't think ANY feed is really all it's hyped up to be, lol. I've fed so many different feeds over the years and always seem to go back to the basics... Crimped Oats, alfalfa hay and good pasture. It seems like I have always had horses that were really easy keepers and could do great on pasture alone. But I'm kind of a clean eater myself... I stay away from processed foods and do more fresh fruits and veggies. I think I carry that mantra with me to the barn... my cats, dogs, chickens and horses all eat pretty clean too, lol. I do add a little Canola oil to keep the dust down and a multivitamin when I'm hauling, but that's about it. And I think they look and feel great. So you just have to play with things and see what works for your particular horse. I only feed 1 small coffee can of oats per day (even when I'm hauling) but will add a 1/3 C of oil to it for some extra an calories. But plenty of good quality alfalfa hay too. I know it doesn't sound like much, but it works great for them. Good luck!
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 Pork Fat is my Favorite
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Location: The Oklahoma plains. | I have a close friend who moved to an area where she could not get her regular feed and she switched to this. After about 4 months she realized her horses all looked like crap. She thought they may have had stress from moving, maybe needed extra deworming, who knows. She was smart not to over react and make a change without thought. But after 6 months she found a dealer for her previous feed and within 30-60 days her horses all looked great again and at half the cost, although money is not an object to her. Her horses are winners in the largest of venues.
But I respect their media saturation to get the brand out there, it is obviously working. Kind of like Total Equine, advertising pays! |
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I just read the headlines
Posts: 4483
| They don't saturate with advertising any more than the other feed companies and they are much more open to questions than many others. Horse Journal did a study on the major feed brands with respect to safety controls and what was actually in their feed. Bluebonnet, Triple Crown and I can't remember which other feed company, were the only ones to answer every question about safety precautions and exactly what their feed formulas were. Many either didn't respond back or only answered a few of the questions. I don't feed Bluebonnet, but have in the past and really liked it, but I decided I wanted to try the forage based diet with renew gold and I am happy with that. |
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 Warrior Mom
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| I fed omega force for a while ... loved it and only fed 3-4 lbs a day but it started getting too hard for me to get and the closest feed store couldn't keep it stocked. I had to switch unfortunately. |
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Location: kansas | GLP - 2014-11-04 8:52 AM They don't saturate with advertising any more than the other feed companies and they are much more open to questions than many others. Horse Journal did a study on the major feed brands with respect to safety controls and what was actually in their feed. Bluebonnet, Triple Crown and I can't remember which other feed company, were the only ones to answer every question about safety precautions and exactly what their feed formulas were. Many either didn't respond back or only answered a few of the questions. I don't feed Bluebonnet, but have in the past and really liked it, but I decided I wanted to try the forage based diet with renew gold and I am happy with that.
How long have you been feeding the Renew Gold? I have been contemplating make the switch to it, but I don't know anyone who feeds it, so I have been a little learly just not knowing. |
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I just read the headlines
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| RaNdI sUe - 2014-11-04 11:52 AM
GLP - 2014-11-04 8:52 AM They don't saturate with advertising any more than the other feed companies and they are much more open to questions than many others. Horse Journal did a study on the major feed brands with respect to safety controls and what was actually in their feed. Bluebonnet, Triple Crown and I can't remember which other feed company, were the only ones to answer every question about safety precautions and exactly what their feed formulas were. Many either didn't respond back or only answered a few of the questions. I don't feed Bluebonnet, but have in the past and really liked it, but I decided I wanted to try the forage based diet with renew gold and I am happy with that.
How long have you been feeding the Renew Gold? I have been contemplating make the switch to it, but I don't know anyone who feeds it, so I have been a little learly just not knowing.
I'm not sure, maybe 9 months. I really like it. I love that it has flaxseed and rice bran in it. I used to buy flaxseed and ricebran but by buying the renew gold I found that I was saving over $10/month per horse. I feed 4 horses so that was a pretty nice savings. Their manes and tails are not frizzy and their hooves look good, no complaints from my farrier. I have noticed thru the drought their feet weren't quite as hard to trim. I feed 1 lb. per horse a day in their feed . |
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 A very grounded girl
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Location: Moving soon..... | There was a Bluebonnet Feed Mill in Brownwood, Texas. It was shut down because of bad feed. When I still went to NBHA they donated a lot of feed for our finals. There were not too many good things to say and horses would not eat it. |
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Ms Bling Bling Sleeze Kitty
Posts: 20917
Location: LouLouVille, OK | I bought some steam rolled oats from a company that is just across the river and apparently steam rolled mice need to make the label... I won't buy that again... lol
I think you either really like your grain or you don't.. it's kinda like meatloaf you either love it or you don't... and if you don't you find something else you do. I wanted to switch feeds since I moved but find myself driving the 40 min back to the feed store with Blue Bonnet feeds cause no one else carries what I want.
Its a matter of figuring out what works for you and your horses. ;)
just my 2 cents
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| I feed a bluebonnet Intensify Omega Force to twof my horses with great results and their Total Advantage with great results. |
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