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Location: Here | We have a board buddy that is loosing her horse because of the monensin. Please educate yourself on this nasty toxic additive and demand clean feed for your horse. I found this article that Blue Bonnet is a cleen feed. Seminole has also declared theirs is clean as well. Here is the article from Blue Bonnett
How safe is your horse’s feed?
If the feed is milled at a plant that also manufactures livestock feed containing ionophore, there’s a risk it could possibly be fatal to your horse.
Over the last several months, the equine industry has been hit with the loss of multiple horses from various locations due to ionophore toxicity. Unfortunately, deaths like this occur each year because ionophores have been mistakenly mixed into horse feeds at a manufacturing facility or horses have ingested feed that was intended for another species.
Ionophore antibiotics are added to feed to improve weight gain and control protozoan and bacteria infections in ruminants, swine and poultry. Ionophores function by increasing membrane permeability, allowing better transfer of molecules into and out of cells within the body. Several ionophores are approved for use in the United States with the most common being monensin, salinomycin, lasalocid, laidlomycin and narasin.
Horses are much more sensitive to ionophore poisoning than other species. For example, the safety zone for monensin in horses is 2 to 3 mg whereas cattle can tolerate 20 to 34 mg and poultry 90 to 200 mg. When higher-than-acceptable concentrations of ionophore are found in equine feed, a horse could be dead in less than 24 hours after ingestion.
Ionophore toxicity inhibits sodium and potassium ion transport across cell membranes, which can kill cells—especially muscle cells—leading eventually to total system failure and death. Signs of ionophore poisoning include poor appetite, diarrhea, muscle weakness, depression, wobbling, colic, excessive urination, sweating, lying down and sudden death.
Ionophore intoxication damages the kidneys as well as the skeletal and heart muscles. There is no specific treatment for a poisoned horse and those that survive usually have permanent heart damage.
Avoidance is the best method for preventing ionophore toxicity.Do not allow your horse access to feeds for other species, and it is essential to store away any feed containing ionophores from equine feed.
To ensure your horse’s feed is never put at risk of contamination, only purchase products manufactured at an ionophore-free mill, like the Bluebonnet Feeds facility in Ardmore, Oklahoma. There are very few feed manufacturers that choose to be ionophore-free, so do your homework.
Don’t confuse an “ionophore-free” with an “ionophore-safe.” For example, ionophores are not used in any feeds manufactured at the Bluebonnet mill, making it “free” of all ionophores. However, a mill that produces some of its feed with ionophores will use a series of flushes to clean the system and make it “safe” to manufacture horse feeds. But no matter how efficient the flushing procedure is, there is always a risk of cross-contamination. There is also the risk for human error any time that ionophores are stored on a manufacturer’s premises. It’s just too easy for an employee to accidentally add ionophores to a feed intended for horses.
Only a manufacturing system like that of Bluebonnet Feeds mill will guarantee your horse’s feed is ionophore-free.
Edited by SG. 2015-02-03 6:49 AM
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Location: Here | Please share if you know of other monensin free mills. I am nervous about Adm's response to the deaths in Florida.
Edited by SG. 2015-02-03 6:49 AM
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Location: Here | rodeomom3 - 2015-02-03 7:14 AM Thanks for sharing You are welcome I am just becoming educated on this subject and what I am learning is concerning For example mills that do not have a medicated feed license can still make medicated liquid feed. For what these companies are making on horse feed they need to make horse feed in a horse feed mill only
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Location: Oklahoma | Thanks for posting that. I need to check on Nutrena. |
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | Thanks for posting SG. I have lost one to monensin poisoning and ended up having to put another down because she foundered so badly. She had a foal at her side and we saved the foal. This is a nasty death for a horse. |
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Bulls Eye
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Location: Oklahoma | Here is what I found on the Nutrena Facebook Page
Nutrena Horse Feed ,
Thank you for contacting us, and we understand your concern. The majority of Nutrena horse feed manufacturing locations do not handle monesin/rumensin.
In the few that do, we utilize FDA approved Good Manufacturing practices to eliminate the risk, in addition to HACCP, which is used to manage risks associated with the production of our animal foods. HACCP stands for “Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point,” a systematic, preventive approach to food safety that addresses physical, chemical and biological hazards. HACCP is not required in the animal feed industry, but it is mandated in four areas of food for human consumption (fish and seafood, juice processing, poultry, and meat).
Because feed is shipped around the country by distributors and larger retailers that utilize distribution centers, and thus feed in your area may not simply be coming from the closest mill to you, if you would like to know if feed in your area is from one of our monensin-free facilities or not, please contact us regarding your specific location, and we can advise about the feed being shipping in to your area. All of our manufacturing locations and employees are fully dedicated to providing a safe product! If you have any further questions, please let us know! |
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Location: Feeding mosquitos, FL | If anybody is feeding Seminole like I am...
Seminole Feed
At Seminole Feed, we are proud to have a plant that is free of all medications and ionophores. While we do manufacture a handful of livestock feeds, these feeds are made with the same ingredients as our horse feeds, so there is never a chance of contamination with an ingredient that will cause a horse harm. The only feed ingredients we house in our plant are those safe for equine consumption. |
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  Warmblood with Wings
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Location: Florida.. | Some good friends of mine with a event farm in alabama have also come across it but luckily the horses other then colic episodes have survived. bloodwork came back out of danger now.
Owners need to take this seroius.. they to didnt think it would happen and was reassurred by the adm company Jason Hartley and the feed store.. They had 32 horses on it prior to the findings and continued after talking to rep at adm....The horses tested positive confirmed by UF and labs but not enough to kill them... thankfully he stopped feeding it and the levels werent high enough in their system..they did have a few colic and sent to UF and they were involved in monitoring the horses that did consume alot and ADM is basically shoveling under the stone.. denying any wrong doing..in all cases.. .The lab tested two lots of ADM Patriot Performance 12-10 and ADM Patriot Junior that he had purchased last week. The lab results show Patriot Performance lot GA36414 contains .094 g/ton of monensin; lot GA35714 has 1.2 g/ton monensin; and Patriot Junior lot GA34514 contains .43 g/ton. Palmer is waiting for results from additional samples.According to lab results, ADM Patriot Performance, ADM Patriot Junior, and ADM Alliance Nutrition 12% have tested positive for monensin. The test results come from three farms in three different states – South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. The feed was produced at a mill in Cordele, Georgia.
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | I saw this on FB but didn't see exactly what brand of feed she fed? |
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Location: Got Lobsta? | thanks for posting this, I had no idea and I am going to check with my feed company. |
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Location: Oklahoma | It was Bonanza feed - local OK feed company |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | TwistedK - 2015-02-03 8:04 AM It was Bonanza feed - local OK feed company
OK thank you. Good to know. |
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Location: NE Texas | This is very scary stuff, thank you for the article and helping all of us get educated on this issue! |
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| So Nutrena states they are monensin free but is monensin just one kind of ionophore or is it just the common name?
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| I would love to feed blue bonnet but its not available in our area. I wonder what adm would do if everyone wrote on there facebook wall requesting an ionophore-free mill. Strength in numbers  or beating a dead horse  ... |
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Location: Florida.. | Unfortunately I would question them .. ADM.. the way things were handled and still selling the feed with those LOT numbers and basically telling everyone that calls its ok..safe yet some horses have died and others have coliced and ended up in UF. Id never trust the company again.. to late.Lab tests, vets, feed tested etc showed it was contaminated yet Jason Hartley still is denying..I have always been a huge fan of patriot performance and ADM .. but not anymore. they handled this wrong. recall and active intervention would have been correct way..
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Location: Here | Bibliafarm - 2015-02-03 9:19 AM Unfortunately I would question them .. ADM.. the way things were handled and still selling the feed with those LOT numbers and basically telling everyone that calls its ok..safe yet some horses have died and others have coliced and ended up in UF. Id never trust the company again.. to late.Lab tests, vets, feed tested etc showed it was contaminated yet Jason Hartley still is denying..I have always been a huge fan of patriot performance and ADM .. but not anymore. they handled this wrong. recall and active intervention would have been correct way..
I agree NO amount is safe for a Horse NONE
And for those that have both horse and cow feed in same room MAKE sure buckets and scoops are seperate and stay seperate.... |
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The BHW Book Worm
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| Bibliafarm - 2015-02-03 9:19 AM
Unfortunately I would question them .. ADM.. the way things were handled and still selling the feed with those LOT numbers and basically telling everyone that calls its ok..safe yet some horses have died and others have coliced and ended up in UF. Id never trust the company again.. to late.Lab tests, vets, feed tested etc showed it was contaminated yet Jason Hartley still is denying..I have always been a huge fan of patriot performance and ADM .. but not anymore. they handled this wrong. recall and active intervention would have been correct way..
Can your friends with the other farm post there findings ? it just chaps my butt because i feed adm but agree the way they handled it was very wrong. I stopped feeding purina for like issues. Our feed choices were im located are very limited. |
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Location: between here and there | Knowledge is power! Send this information onto every horse owner you know. This CAN be stopped! Thanks for posting the great information, SG!!  |
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