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| Please choose the grain you feed and comment with how much per day and any supplements you add to it.
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| I feed Blue Bonnet Equilene, 10# day to my thin mare and 6# day to my normal keeping mare. I don't add anything to the normal keeper, I add oil and a digestive supp to the hard keeping mare. Both get free choice hay, hard keeper gets free choice grass also. |
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Location: TN | I have been feeding my easy keeper a low starch locally milled feed (1/2 scoop 2x/day) and when he was running I added THE Muscle Mass with ulcer prevent. Tomorrow I will be starting my 16 year old horse on Purina Equine Senior Active with Forco added. The senior active is expensive per bag but you don't have to feed much so it works out to not really be that expensive. I liked the reviews on here and the higher protein, fat, and low starch. I'll see how that goes and then in about a month I'll add Muscle Mass. I wanted to start the Forco and MM at different times so I'd get a better idea of what the feed and forco were doing on their own prior to the MM. I want to keep it as simple and cost effective as possible. |
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| I feed purina strategy healthy edge, forco, THE MM,and a shot of healthy coat to stick. I'm happy with it. But, I'm thinking about giving the Kool Speed a try soon. I'm looking for a drier feed, not so moist because where I live it gets very hot and humid and my feed room absolutely heats up and I'm afraid of molding, the strategy is really moist and I'm finding more and more big chunks stuck together. |
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| Free choice alfalfa cubes, 3 lbs oats, 1 lb rice bran 2x daily for my hard keeping race bred.
18 lbs alfalfa cubes, 1 lb oats 2x daily for my easy keeper.
Formula 707 Daily Essentials for both.
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Location: Beggs, OK | My mare is getting 18# of Omnis CP Cubes per day....no additional feed or hay. She's on OE Flex for joint health and gets Redmond's daily.
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| I have tried a variety of feeds, 12% sweet feed, safe choice, strategy, ultium, omelene, progressive nutrition, ration balancer by Purina and nutrena. Xtn. Pro force fuel. There are probably more than I can't remember.
By far my favorite feed is triple crown senior. I fed it at a minimum of 5 lbs per day.
I've recently switched to an "all natural" diet for my horses. I feed 3lbs min alfalfa, 1 lb oats, 1 cup flax seed.
I've also been happy with xtn by nutrena.
My horses look and feel the best on the 3 feeds I listed above. Keep in mind they're easy keepers so rations may need adjusting depending on the horses needs.
Out of curiosity I'm giving renew gold a try. Hoping it's as good as everyone says. |
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| Kool Speed Plus, Vitalize High Performance and Equine.Regen. Poly Glycan every other week and OE Flex |
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Location: Phoenix | Renew Gold. I feed 1 lb but only for the added flax benefit. I fed my horse 1/2 lb all last year and he looked equally as good. I also feed Platinum Performance but am considering quitting because I'm not seeing any amazing benefits from it.
I think alfalfa is an important part of a horse's diet. |
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| 10 lbs. Omni cubes, Cur Ost supplement and my gelding started Adequan- he has a small hock spur. |
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| Free choice alfalfa...nothing else |
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| Tribute Kalm N EZ, MVP 6-way, Red Cell, grass/alfalfa mix hay |
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | I was feeding 2# rice bran, a few lbs soaked beet pulp, Cool Calories, Noni Formula 1, and THE MM to my OTTB that is thin and gangly looking.
A few weeks ago I found a CONSISTENT Renew Gold supplier (I couldn't ever find it to feed consistently). I dropped the rice bran, halved the beet pulp, chucked the Cool Calories and Noni. He's now getting 1-1-2 lbs Renew Gold and MM. Putting on noticeable weight already and shining up... FINALLY.
I'll stick with my Renew Gold.
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| Mine are on a mixture of Chaffhaye, whole oats, whole flax, supplemental Coolstance and AE detox. They get a big flake of alfalfa with their morning meal along with Brome hay, have free choice to Redmond salt and Sea90 and have access to pasture 24/7. All four look incredible!  |
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Location: MN | Im feeding a mixture of Triple Crown Complete and Roasted to Perfection right now along with MVP Exceed 6-way. Love the way my guy looks right now! He gets 3lbs total once a day along with alfalfa/mix hay and on pasture 24/7.
ETA This pic was over a month ago coming off of winter. I need to get a more current one as he has shed off and is super slick and shiney!
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Location: TEXAS | scwebster - 2016-04-20 10:09 AM Free choice alfalfa...nothing else
Isn't that hard on their kidneys?
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Location: West Texas | slacy09 - 2016-04-20 11:00 AM
scwebster - 2016-04-20 10:09 AM Free choice alfalfa...nothing else
Isn't that hard on their kidneys?
No, that is largely a myth. Many, many horses fed this way.
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| 1# Renew Gold, 2oz Forco and 1 lb per 100 lbs body weight straight alfalfa.
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| Anyone worry about increased colic risk of feeding 100% alfalfa? I always throw in some orchard grass since I do not have pasture. All my vets have ever said is to give them some grass to help keep things moving. and NOT Bermuda under any circumstances. I guess the Bermuda we have in CA is the Bad kind. lol |
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Location: 31 lengths farms | I picked the Renew Gold, Alfalfa pellets and oats, but in reality I feed Timothy Pellets since my mare cannot have Alfalfa and I didn't want to add more to the list...I add their Cur-ost and the mare with kidney issues also get her ENC kidney herb and all get ACV. |
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