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Location: Georgia | Can you let me know your rations for performance horses? What mineral/supp is added? And would love to see photos of horses on the diet. TIA.  |
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Location: Kansas | I'm still trying to find a supplement that works best, but I do feed alfalfa pellets to my gelding along with 2 scoops of vita-calm and free choice brome. |
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| I do! And I am seeing outstanding results!!! I used to feed a Orchard grass primary forage diet with some alfalfa added in, now I have switched to an 80% alfalfa forage diet with 20% orchard. I am a true CUROST user and use whole oats/Stabilized rice bran mix to give the curost. Holy smokes, my horses are buky, extremely defined muscles, their hind gut is working as it should. My allergy/Arthritis plagued horse is now only on curost and no longer needs ventipulman, previcox, aloe juice, etc. He just feels great and is clocking better than he ever has. :) |
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| I feed an alfalfa grass mix that is proably 80% alfalfa, I feed twice a day. I also feed a 16oz sour cream container of Renew Gold in the morning only. My horses are borderline obese, but if I had time to add the exercise that they need they would look top notch. |
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Location: Where the long tails flow, ND | I do!
2lbs of Oats, 1/3 cup of whole flax with Cur-Ost. Grass Hay and Alfalfa.
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Location: Buffalo, TX | I'll have to post a picture of my gelding "before" and "after" I switched him from grain to Chaffhaye, an alfalfa/probiotic bagged hay product. I also feed Natural Glo rice bran meal supplement with it...he looks like a different horse now...his neck and topline dramaticaly changed....I actually had him on an oat based diet, which I ditched...he has 24/7 access to my bermuda grass pasture... |
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Location: Where the long tails flow, ND | The two bay's did not have a pre existing condition. The Palomino was plagued with allergies, and was on allergy shots, and you name it for band-aids.
Before Cur Ost, and After 
What the heck, I can't attach my pics! I'll keep trying....
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Location: Georgia | Thank you Flitastic, that is what I am trying to achieve! I am tired of spending $20 a bag on processed grains for my horses to just look "OK". I end up adding alfalfa in winter anyways so thinking about going more natural... have not heard of this Curost, will have to look into it. |
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Location: Georgia | SmokinGirlie - 2015-12-10 10:13 AM
The two bay's did not have a pre existing condition. The Palomino was plagued with allergies, and was on allergy shots, and you name it for band-aids.
Before Cur Ost, and After What the heck, I can't attach my pics! I'll keep trying....
Heck, Ive been trying to upload a profile pic for an hour now! So Im no help!!! |
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Location: Georgia | Can anyone tell me if Seminole Equalizer ration balancer would be good to add to the Alfalfa/Oats ration?? |
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Location: Where the long tails flow, ND | bribri88 - 2015-12-10 10:19 AM SmokinGirlie - 2015-12-10 10:13 AM The two bay's did not have a pre existing condition. The Palomino was plagued with allergies, and was on allergy shots, and you name it for band-aids.
Before Cur Ost, and After
What the heck, I can't attach my pics! I'll keep trying....
Heck, Ive been trying to upload a profile pic for an hour now! So Im no help!!!
So annoying! I don't know why it won't work....It's saying I must attach a file even though I did? |
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Location: Where the long tails flow, ND | Let me try this again but with links I guess!
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| Free choice Bermuda, Alfalfa(hard keepers and oldies are getting about 10lbs a day and the others 5-7lbs), Vitamin E & Folic Acid sup, 1 cup Flax seed/day(ground in a coffee grinder right at feeding time), 1-2lbs rice bran/day depending on horse, and 1-2lbs/day of oats(really only to mix the rice bran and flax), then Salt free choice. |
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Location: Central Texas | I switched to 2 1/2 lbs of whole oats a day with a vit/min supplement called Mega Cell by MVP because I feed a grass hay. They also make a vit/min supplement called Mega (something) to be fed with alfalfa hay. They each compliment the type of hay you feed to balance out the cal/phos ratio. Other than some MSM and cool calories on my running horses, that's all I feed now. My vet and her tech just recently told me they have never seen my horses look better. They are bulked up, nice muscling, healthy coat and feet and have a pep in their step etc. |
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Location: Central Texas | Cindy Hamilton - 2015-12-10 10:10 AM I'll have to post a picture of my gelding "before" and "after" I switched him from grain to Chaffhaye, an alfalfa/probiotic bagged hay product. I also feed Natural Glo rice bran meal supplement with it...he looks like a different horse now...his neck and topline dramaticaly changed....I actually had him on an oat based diet, which I ditched...he has 24/7 access to my bermuda grass pasture...
This ^^^
I have an older OTTB and had just resigned myself to the fact that he was always going to look a little rough ( I got him from a rescue situation)
This summer he colic'd no less than 7 times...the last one landed him in a two day stay hooked to Iv's, ultra sound, scoped, treated for ulcers and finally changed his feed. Took him off grain and started feeding the Chaffhaye with Renew Gold and Forco. He also has 24 hour access to coastal bermuda.
Not only have all the colic episodes stopped but he is now filling in across the topline in places that I thought never would.
I feed about 12 lbs of Chaffhaye, 1lb of renew gold and maintenance dose of Forco per day divided into two feedings.
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| Mix whole oats with pellets of alfalfa/corn in a bucket with free choice hay and ADM GroStrong Minerals ...
They get one scoop .. 3 lbs of mix per day ...
Here are my fat girls ...
I am getting the must add a file response too ... so no pictures ..
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Location: SW MO | I switched to an alfalfa based diet from processed feeds and so far I am loving it! horses are calmer, body condition is better. I feed 5 lbs of alfalfa pellets (omnis cubes aren't available in my area, and my horses don't love standlee cubes) and I put AE detox in as well. love that combo my horses are on pasture 24/7 |
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | bribri88 - 2015-12-10 10:13 AM Thank you Flitastic, that is what I am trying to achieve! I am tired of spending $20 a bag on processed grains for my horses to just look "OK". I end up adding alfalfa in winter anyways so thinking about going more natural... have not heard of this Curost, will have to look into it.
Contact "Herbie" on here. She has her horses on it and they look awesome. She can tell you all about it. |
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| GLP - 2015-12-10 8:42 AM
Omni cubes, round bale of grass hay and Cur Ost
If I could get the Omni cubes out here In CA I do believe thats what I would feed as well. Maybe someday. :) |
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