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| Out of curiousity, I'd like to know what you feed your barrel horses and also how you supplement them to keep them in tip top health? Do you feed them differently depending on whether you are actively competing or getting them back in shape after a season off? I was just curious of what y'all favorite brands and what not were! I personally feed my gelding a 14% protein 2% fat loose grain feed we get directly from the feed mill, and vita calm. But I haven't been doing a lot of competing lately. |
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Location: North Dakota | I have 3.
1. Mare gets grass (round bale in winter)
2. Gelding A gets alfalfa pellets, smartpak brand multi vitamin/mineral supplement, Smartflex III for joints, and I'm waiting for my Silver Lining Kidney support to come!
3. Gelding B gets Ultium, Tri-Amino, Smartsox, and Smartcalm
They all get grass hay and a salt/mineral block as well. They're all fat, happy, and either have no health issues or have them under control.
Edited by cavyrunsbarrels 2014-12-28 6:45 PM
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Location: Piedmont, OK | I feed Nutrena Performance to my barrel horses and Maintenance to the young horses. And all of mine are on Animal Element Performance Detox. Then those In training get Product X. And one with bad allergies and another that has been treated for epm get Immune. |
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Location: Piedmont, OK | I feed Nutrena Performance to my barrel horses and Maintenance to the young horses. And all of mine are on Animal Element Performance Detox. Then those In training get Product X. And one with bad allergies and another that has been treated for epm get Immune. |
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Location: Oklahoma & Texas | Mine are being fed free choice grass hay, alfalfa morning and night 1 to 2 flakes depending on the horse, and then most get nutrena safechoice special care, a couple get mare and foal safechoice, i top dress about 2 cups of purina senior on all of mine even the young ones for the sticky molasses thats on it lol and then i put their supplements on it so it sticks and they dont waste supplements ...i supplement all with omegahorseshine, a small scoop that comes in bucket of electrolytes i only give 1/3 of that scoop, and then a full level scoop that comes in msm supplement... they also have free access to salt/mineral licks in their pastures and stalls. |
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| Babies: empower balance, baled alfalfa, grass hay, THE MM baby/weanling/ yearling mix
Performance: Renew Gold, baled alfalfa (if applicable), grass hay, THE MM
Non performance: renew Gold, grass hay, liquid 747 for vits/mins
Broodies: 14% pellet, coco soya, grass until month 9 of gestation, then add baled alfalfa and calf manna () until foal is 4 months.
All have 1/2 day on pasture and 24/7 grass hay. Unless sick or injured then no turnout, just hay. |
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| All of mine basically get the same thing. I feed a local feed that is 14%. They all get Platinum Performance, about 2 T loose salt, 1cup of alfalfa pellets. They get plain feed in the am and their supplements added in at pm. They get a couple of flakes of coastal hay am and pm. The salt keeps them drinking plenty of water. Mine are outside all the time except when they eat. I put them in stalls to eat and let them out when finished. I planted rye grass in their pastures. |
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | Barrel Horse gets Total Equine, Super Sport, flax and rice bran, mix fescue/ Dallas grass hay, scoop of Alf cubes (Race days he gets beet pulp)
Riding horses- Original Strategy, rice bran/flax, kelp, scoop Alf cubes, mix grass hay
Non-riding- 10% protein and 10% fat sweet feed, kelp, mix grass hay, beet pulp sometimes
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Location: God's country...aka TEXAS | All of mine (ages yearling to seniors) get Renew Gold, alfalfa pellets, alfalfa cubes and free choice coastal. They also get whatever OxyGen products they need. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | Broodmares and yearlings mid spring on and unstarted geldings are out in pasture.
Most riding horses are also out in the close pasture. Show horse, old pony and anything I am riding steady for a week or more at a time that is in the corral on ADM feeds and THE Muscle Mass. It is 20% off this month |
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Location: Loma Linda, CA | My gelding is on alfalfa twice a day, he gets Triple Crown Complete mixed with psyllium powder, electrolytes & F1 Noni. He is on pasture during the day if we have it (we generally have pasture in the winter, not so much in the summer lol)
New horse will get alfalfa twice daily, psyllium, electrolytes and F1 noni. (She's only 3 going on 4, doesn't need grain yet :P) |
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Location: SE Oklahoma | I feed a local mill feed called Super Loop. I love it, it's 14% protein and 5% fat. That 5% has really helped my horses "bloom". Also feed the best bermuda grass hay we can find - we only buy it from 1 supplier. Also feed SmartPack UltraFlex, but I'm switching everyone to Oxy Max because I really like the Oxygen products. |
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| Well we just went no commercial feeds and couldn't be happier. Oats, alfalfa pellets, dical, vit E, selenium, and clovite with cocosoy oil to make everything stick together. Comes out to $16 a bag and we are saving money because they are keeping weight on less fed and have more energy after just two weeks! Their coat and body condition has also improved. Before we were feeding nutrena safe choice and a ton of supplements....not anymore! |
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Location: Here | astreakinchic - 2014-12-28 10:29 AM Well we just went no commercial feeds and couldn't be happier. Oats, alfalfa pellets, dical, vit E, selenium, and clovite with cocosoy oil to make everything stick together. Comes out to $16 a bag and we are saving money because they are keeping weight on less fed and have more energy after just two weeks! Their coat and body condition has also improved. Before we were feeding nutrena safe choice and a ton of supplements....not anymore!
Why would you add supplements to safe choice? Also are you in a selenium deficient area? I know of another that was feeding a feed and it had selenium in it and they were not in a selenium deficient area and it caused big problems in several horses. Not Picking at you just curious |
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Posts: 2013
Location: Piedmont, OK | I also feed chaffehaye for alfalfa. I couldn't find good consistent alfalfa around here and tried chaffehaye and love it. |
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Location: Willows, CA | For our mature horses we feed mixed grass / Alfalfa hay, about 20% alfalfa. One pound total of Renew Gold per day. Redmond Salt. Clean Water. Feed two times per day. Several are turned out on medium quality pasture. They get one flake of the above mixed hay added along with one pound of Renew Gold per day and have a Redmond Rock in the pasture feeder. They could not look better. |
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| SG. - 2014-12-28 7:08 PM
astreakinchic - 2014-12-28 10:29 AM Well we just went no commercial feeds and couldn't be happier. Oats, alfalfa pellets, dical, vit E, selenium, and clovite with cocosoy oil to make everything stick together. Comes out to $16 a bag and we are saving money because they are keeping weight on less fed and have more energy after just two weeks! Their coat and body condition has also improved. Before we were feeding nutrena safe choice and a ton of supplements....not anymore!
Why would you add supplements to safe choice? Also are you in a selenium deficient area? I know of another that was feeding a feed and it had selenium in it and they were not in a selenium deficient area and it caused big problems in several horses. Not Picking at you just curious
Yes hay tested and added those we were decient in to the mix. Added supplements to nutrena bc they looked like crap without it. Forco, mvp 6 way, equipride minerals and different horses were getting some other different things for their needs. I'm sorry but I think commercial feeds are putting less and less in and charging us more and more. We have training horses in and they are used to getting alfalfa hay and higher end nutrena and purina feeds. Each horse would drop weight on safe choice and our grass hay. And yes we fed more accommodating to their level of training.
Switched to this mix and huge difference in every horse condition wise on less feed.
It may cause problems down the road and we may need to adjust but right now their condition cost and body has not been this good in awhile. |
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Location: Willows, CA | Many feed companies have gone to least cost formulation. They change the ingredients every time that they buy bulk components. That allows them to hit their protein, fat, fiber, and ash guarantees with the least expensive combination of components. These products will have a tag sewn onto the bag that list the ingredients because it is easy to print a different tag when the ingredient list changes from lot to lot. This means that you are potentially changing your horses diet every time you open a new bag, even though the bag itself is the same as the last time you purchased that product. Horses thrive on consistency. There are some companies that still use a fixed formula every time that they manufacture. You can tell a fixed formulation feed that is made exactly the same every time by looking for the ingredient list being actually printed on the bag with no added tag. I feel that this is one reason that many commercial feeds do not maintain consistent condition on some horses.
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Location: Florida.. | SO renew gold for horses that are performing .. but only have reg hay .. is that going to maintain them? I have a hard time with that and how much should they be getting Lbs? |
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| I am switching everyone to oats, beet pulp, Perk-a-tone, renew gold, and their THE with free choice grass/A hay.
Except or the one hard keeper. I'm going to see how that works for me. . . |
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