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| We have our cattle on Purina mineral and I email them a question about that. I casually mentioned our horses are sometimes in the pasture with the cattle and that mineral. I'm so impressed they picked that out of my email right away and this is the response:
Thank you for your question. Thank you for choosing Purina products. The issue with any cattle product, whether it is feed or molasses tubs, is that these products are manufactured in the same facility as products with medications, such as Bovatec, that are harmful and even fatal for horses. Even if a product itself contains no ingredients that are toxic to horses, there is always the risk of possible contamination from a previous product that went through the plant that does contain these ingredients. If a medicated cattle product goes through a line and then is followed by a non-medicated product, there is a risk of some of the medicated product hanging up in the equipment somewhere and ending up in a subsequent product as it comes through the same line. Or there is the risk of an error in manufacturing where a medication is put in a batch of feed accidentally.
That is why Purina doesn't make any horse product in the same facility where a medicated cattle feed is manufactured, we just don't want any risk at all of possible contamination or error that could be harmful to horses. Any time a product is used off-label, meaning feeding horses a product labeled for cattle, the owner assumes any risk. I know it is difficult when horses and cattle are kept in the same pastures, but I just don't ever recommend exposing horses to cattle products due to this potential risk.
I am sending this to our nutritionist to answer the other half of your question. |
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Location: Florida.. | Purina is on it.. thats awesome they answered straightforward and No Nonsense.. yay for Purina..  |
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| Purina isn't on it because by their own admission, they have 4 plants that do manufacture medicated cattle and horse feed. While the are segregated, they can do both but don't. I don't know about you, but to me this is not "safe".
If you go to the Facebook page Is Your Horse Feed Safe? and find the Safe List, look in the comments. There you will find the Purina information, given by Purina, that made them not necessarily "safe".
I was feeding Omalene 200. I had two horses that weren't looking very good. I finally got fed up and started mixing my own feed by buying bags of oats, barley, timothy hay pellets and beet pulp shreds from known "safe" companies. I didn't change the amount of grain I was feeding, just the type. After 3 weeks I am having to cut ever ones amount in half because they are getting too fat. |
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Saint Stacey
| I can't edit on FB from my phone otherwise I would have removed it. On other lists I've done, I haven't put Purina on because of what they said. |
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Warmblood with Wings
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Location: Florida.. | It was my understanding they use seperate facilities or buildings ? is this incorrect? and is this in all areas? I personally dont like the Omalene Line.. at all..to me its not a good product.. but thats my opinion.... the others the SR JR and Ultuim line have had good success with..
Edited by Bibliafarm 2015-11-21 9:08 AM
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Saint Stacey
| Bibliafarm - 2015-11-21 8:02 AM
It was my understanding they use seperate facilities or buildings ? is this incorrect? and is this in all areas? I personally dont like the Omalene Line.. at all..to me its not a good product.. but thats my opinion.... the others the SR JR and Ultuim line have had good success with..
From the reply they sent, it is the lines that are segregated, not the building. But they could use the same lines if they wanted to was what it also said. Nothing was said about the mixer though. So who knows if the same mixer is used and just the lines are different? I can't copy and paste from FB on my phone either. Otherwise I'd share that screenshot. I might be at a real computer next week. If so, I'll do it then. But reading that screenshot made me very leery. Much like when Nutrena told me they didn't use ionophores in their bagged feed, only bulk. Again it goes back to the possibility of a shared mixer where you could still get trace amounts. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Maybe they tweaked that due to all the issues and customers questioning. |
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Warmblood with Wings
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Location: Florida.. | SKM - 2015-11-21 10:16 AM Bibliafarm - 2015-11-21 8:02 AM It was my understanding they use seperate facilities or buildings ? is this incorrect? and is this in all areas? I personally dont like the Omalene Line.. at all..to me its not a good product.. but thats my opinion.... the others the SR JR and Ultuim line have had good success with.. From the reply they sent, it is the lines that are segregated, not the building. But they could use the same lines if they wanted to was what it also said. Nothing was said about the mixer though. So who knows if the same mixer is used and just the lines are different? I can't copy and paste from FB on my phone either. Otherwise I'd share that screenshot. I might be at a real computer next week. If so, I'll do it then. But reading that screenshot made me very leery. Much like when Nutrena told me they didn't use ionophores in their bagged feed, only bulk. Again it goes back to the possibility of a shared mixer where you could still get trace amounts.
OK thank you alot.. |
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| SKM - 2015-11-21 6:57 AM
Purina isn't on it because by their own admission, they have 4 plants that do manufacture medicated cattle and horse feed. While the are segregated, they can do both but don't. I don't know about you, but to me this is not "safe".
If you go to the Facebook page Is Your Horse Feed Safe? and find the Safe List, look in the comments. There you will find the Purina information, given by Purina, that made them not necessarily "safe".
I was feeding Omalene 200. I had two horses that weren't looking very good. I finally got fed up and started mixing my own feed by buying bags of oats, barley, timothy hay pellets and beet pulp shreds from known "safe" companies. I didn't change the amount of grain I was feeding, just the type. After 3 weeks I am having to cut ever ones amount in half because they are getting too fat.
Omelene 200 is 40 % sugar! I would not expect a horse to look good on it! All processed feeds are not good for horses. Some are just worse than others. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I think Omelene 200 is about the worse feed to be feeding, it made my horses hot when I tryed it out years ago. Used it for about 3 months and stoped. |
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| In the reply they sent me as I pasted above I quote
That is why Purina doesn't make any horse product in the same facility where a medicated cattle feed is manufactured, we just don't want any risk at all of possible contamination or error that could be harmful to horses.
We have our horses on whole oats and flax, but I am currently using Purina Cattle products for our cows. I am now considering their mineral for our horses, because of this email response. I realized the horse mineral I'm using is from a mill that mills medicated cattle feed in it. |
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Saint Stacey
| FLITASTIC - 2015-11-21 8:33 AM
SKM - 2015-11-21 6:57 AM
Purina isn't on it because by their own admission, they have 4 plants that do manufacture medicated cattle and horse feed. While the are segregated, they can do both but don't. I don't know about you, but to me this is not "safe".
If you go to the Facebook page Is Your Horse Feed Safe? and find the Safe List, look in the comments. There you will find the Purina information, given by Purina, that made them not necessarily "safe".
I was feeding Omalene 200. I had two horses that weren't looking very good. I finally got fed up and started mixing my own feed by buying bags of oats, barley, timothy hay pellets and beet pulp shreds from known "safe" companies. I didn't change the amount of grain I was feeding, just the type. After 3 weeks I am having to cut ever ones amount in half because they are getting too fat.
Omelene 200 is 40 % sugar! I would not expect a horse to look good on it! All processed feeds are not good for horses. Some are just worse than others.
Well sometimes when your choices are extremely limited...you feed what you believe is the best of your options at that given time until you figure out something isn't right so you start doing countless hours of research to fix it. But thanks for the snarky reply. It really made me feel better about the fact I've already beat myself up about the mistake I made. |
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Saint Stacey
| oranges - 2015-11-21 8:45 AM
In the reply they sent me as I pasted above I quote
That is why Purina doesn't make any horse product in the same facility where a medicated cattle feed is manufactured, we just don't want any risk at all of possible contamination or error that could be harmful to horses.
We have our horses on whole oats and flax, but I am currently using Purina Cattle products for our cows. I am now considering their mineral for our horses, because of this email response. I realized the horse mineral I'm using is from a mill that mills medicated cattle feed in it.
The reply I was referring to was given back in May, I think it was? Maybe they modified it recently so it didn't scare people off?
I would recommend calling Purina and putting them on the spot about the 4 plants with segregated lines. Ask them if the segregated lines run into the same mixer or if they use the same bagging lines for horse and cattle feed at those plants. If they say yes to either, they can still get trace amounts in horse feed. If any piece of the same equipment is used, there will be a risk. |
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Saint Stacey
| Ask if they use the same hammer mill, mixer and bagging lines on those segretated facilities. If it's a loose mineral, I'm assuming it goes through a hammer mill and into a mixer. Then the mixer usually dumps into a bagging line or a pellet mill depending on what they are making. |
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Warmblood with Wings
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Location: Florida.. | SKM - 2015-11-21 10:46 AM FLITASTIC - 2015-11-21 8:33 AM SKM - 2015-11-21 6:57 AM Purina isn't on it because by their own admission, they have 4 plants that do manufacture medicated cattle and horse feed. While the are segregated, they can do both but don't. I don't know about you, but to me this is not "safe". If you go to the Facebook page Is Your Horse Feed Safe? and find the Safe List, look in the comments. There you will find the Purina information, given by Purina, that made them not necessarily "safe". I was feeding Omalene 200. I had two horses that weren't looking very good. I finally got fed up and started mixing my own feed by buying bags of oats, barley, timothy hay pellets and beet pulp shreds from known "safe" companies. I didn't change the amount of grain I was feeding, just the type. After 3 weeks I am having to cut ever ones amount in half because they are getting too fat. Omelene 200 is 40 % sugar! I would not expect a horse to look good on it! All processed feeds are not good for horses. Some are just worse than others. Well sometimes when your choices are extremely limited...you feed what you believe is the best of your options at that given time until you figure out something isn't right so you start doing countless hours of research to fix it. But thanks for the snarky reply. It really made me feel better about the fact I've already beat myself up about the mistake I made.
I wouldnt beat yourself up I used to feed it about 20 yrs ago.. and alot still do.. its just a sweet feed and I think they are like not good for them but like you said sometimes if its all we have then we do what we have to do and also until we research dont realize it. I stay away from any sweet feed in my programs. I think Ultuim is the closest I got and it made my horses bonkers..
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thanks for the info and II think we all should email and see if its been revised or whats the whole situation there. I trust them. I used to use Triple crown and ADM was my go to.. but have use the Purina sr for many years ..so we will see.. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | SKM - 2015-11-21 9:46 AM FLITASTIC - 2015-11-21 8:33 AM SKM - 2015-11-21 6:57 AM Purina isn't on it because by their own admission, they have 4 plants that do manufacture medicated cattle and horse feed. While the are segregated, they can do both but don't. I don't know about you, but to me this is not "safe". If you go to the Facebook page Is Your Horse Feed Safe? and find the Safe List, look in the comments. There you will find the Purina information, given by Purina, that made them not necessarily "safe". I was feeding Omalene 200. I had two horses that weren't looking very good. I finally got fed up and started mixing my own feed by buying bags of oats, barley, timothy hay pellets and beet pulp shreds from known "safe" companies. I didn't change the amount of grain I was feeding, just the type. After 3 weeks I am having to cut ever ones amount in half because they are getting too fat. Omelene 200 is 40 % sugar! I would not expect a horse to look good on it! All processed feeds are not good for horses. Some are just worse than others. Well sometimes when your choices are extremely limited...you feed what you believe is the best of your options at that given time until you figure out something isn't right so you start doing countless hours of research to fix it. But thanks for the snarky reply. It really made me feel better about the fact I've already beat myself up about the mistake I made.
I fed a co-op version of Omolene and then Omolene itself in the 90s to some danged nice horses. I never had issues with the sugar content until one particular horse. No need to beat yourself up. You recognized a problem and fixed it. |
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 A Barrel Of Monkeys
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Location: Texas | One day I will visit the Fort Worth facility. But here is what I've been told:
That facility does manufacture medicated cattle feed, but in a separate mill, with separate lines. |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | Truly folks, unless you PERSONALLY visit each and every Purina Mill, you can choose to believe what they just wrote.....or choose not to........ |
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A Barrel Of Monkeys
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Location: Texas | NJJ - 2015-11-21 11:09 AM Truly folks, unless you PERSONALLY visit each and every Purina Mill, you can choose to believe what they just wrote.....or choose not to........
^^Truth. There is a mill in Okla (Red River) that makes zero medicated feed. Their formula is fixed and lists everything in the feed on the bag, not the tag, so it rarely changes. Because it is not a big name company with big overhead, their feed is cheaper than what I'm buying that Purina makes. I'm thinking I will be switching to this feed in the future, save a few $$ and know the ingredients exactly.
I know there are areas in the country where Purina might be the only choice, and I'd feel safe feeding that.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | NJJ - 2015-11-21 11:09 AM Truly folks, unless you PERSONALLY visit each and every Purina Mill, you can choose to believe what they just wrote.....or choose not to........
Just what I was thinking  , They could be writing this stuff just to make people happy.  |
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