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Location: Ohio | Need your insight!!!! With all that is happening this past month with one of my horses along with other things to in general. What feed do you use? I am looking for a low carb sugar feed to review with my vet! If you have had issues with a certain type please share! |
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Location: West Texas | With the choices list, I would probably choose Ultium, cost and other factors not considered.
I do have a question, what do you consider low carb and why are you looking for low carb. I assume this is for competition barrel horses. |
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| If I had to pick one from your list it would probably be the ultium. It is LOWER carb and sugar than SOME but is certainly not "Low". I try and keep it molasses free but my off the track youngster was fed so much CANDY ( Ie, 10 -12 pounds a DAY of Purina Omelene 200) that now he really doesn't like anything without molasses. Whole grain diet made him nuts, Ultium made him nuts, so I feed a local milled feed that is 11% NSC with out molasses and 15% with. SOOOOOO I mix half and half and he eats it right up. LOL His attitude and demeanor have calmed down SO MUCH since I have had him on this mix. Its 7% fat. THey look and feel amazing. |
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Location: Ohio | I have had horses with founder and you want this type of diet my barn is split from morgans and qh barrel horses so we put them all on the same diet you can add whatever feed you want to the poll thank you! |
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Location: OH. IO | Tribute.we actually love kalm ultra.this feed is in your area at 17.00 a bag.we will never change feeds.it is also made in a clean mill.no tocins no cattle feeds.equine only facility. |
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Location: Texas | Do you have Omni performance cubes in your area? |
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Location: Ohio | I will have to look |
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Location: Florida.. | BobbieL - 2016-04-29 9:19 PM Do you have Omni performance cubes in your area?
I doubt the whole barn will be put on these.. they are good but it has to be a whole barns diet.boarders I assume to and I just dont see it happeneing.lol.. alot of owners dont think horses can survive with out grain.lol. |
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| I love tribute feeds clean milled and they are excellent to deal with . You can give them a call and they will go over anything you want to with you. |
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Location: Salem Ky | Just switched my horses over to Tribute Calm and Ease. After seeing a horse I sold, gain weight after two weeks of being on it. I tried several types of feed on him, oil, etc, etc. With no real luck.
Had a mare who lost just a bit of weight, cause she would rather eat grass that is a 1/2" tall, then eat hay. In two weeks on Tribute, she is back up to her good weight. I now have her on 2lbs of Tribute. It is $15 something a bag here. I think it is worth it.
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Location: In my own world | FLITASTIC - 2016-04-29 2:02 PM If I had to pick one from your list it would probably be the ultium. It is LOWER carb and sugar than SOME but is certainly not "Low". I try and keep it molasses free but my off the track youngster was fed so much CANDY ( Ie, 10 -12 pounds a DAY of Purina Omelene 200) that now he really doesn't like anything without molasses. Whole grain diet made him nuts, Ultium made him nuts, so I feed a local milled feed that is 11% NSC with out molasses and 15% with. SOOOOOO I mix half and half and he eats it right up. LOL His attitude and demeanor have calmed down SO MUCH since I have had him on this mix. Its 7% fat. THey look and feel amazing.
Have you tried Purina Strategy Healthy Edge? It's high fat but no molasses. It's kind of a step down from Ultium. It not far. One that I had that was kind of spunky on Ultium was fine on HE |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Love the Bluebonnets Horsemans Elite pellets and Equilene pellets.. |
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We feed Legends Carbcare pellets. We love it and the horses look fantastic on it.
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| livinonlove&horses - 2016-05-01 10:51 AM
FLITASTIC - 2016-04-29 2:02 PM If I had to pick one from your list it would probably be the ultium. It is LOWER carb and sugar than SOME but is certainly not "Low". I try and keep it molasses free but my off the track youngster was fed so much CANDY ( Ie, 10 -12 pounds a DAY of Purina Omelene 200) that now he really doesn't like anything without molasses. Whole grain diet made him nuts, Ultium made him nuts, so I feed a local milled feed that is 11% NSC with out molasses and 15% with. SOOOOOO I mix half and half and he eats it right up. LOL His attitude and demeanor have calmed down SO MUCH since I have had him on this mix. Its 7% fat. THey look and feel amazing.
Have you tried Purina Strategy Healthy Edge? It's high fat but no molasses. It's kind of a step down from Ultium. It not far. One that I had that was kind of spunky on Ultium was fine on HE
I hadn't tried it. I think I saw it at tractor supply. I am actually going to give the Renew Gold another try. I used it before and didn't see the results and my horses did not do well on it. But now that their hind gut is working better and I finally found a great source of good alfalfa I picked up 2 bags today. Going to give it a month. Then if it doesn't work I will try healthy edge. |
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Location: God's country...aka TEXAS | Renew Gold is awesome. Very low starch and no molasses at all. |
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Location: Ohio | So,do you top dress with renew gold? Or only feed this |
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Location: CTX | cowgirlup73 - 2016-05-01 5:48 PM So,do you top dress with renew gold? Or only feed this
I only feed RG to my young crowd. The old girl gets purina sr.
I feef my yearling 6oz and the 7 and 8 year old 8oz per feeding. I do add Omnis cubes to it, but that is the only grain they get. |
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| There KISS method is the best thing you can do for your horse. Keep it natural. I feed Steam Rolled Oats, Alfalfa Pellets and 1/2 pound of Renew Gold. I add Vitalize High Performance. |
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| livinonlove&horses - 2016-05-01 12:51 PM
FLITASTIC - 2016-04-29 2:02 PM If I had to pick one from your list it would probably be the ultium. It is LOWER carb and sugar than SOME but is certainly not "Low". I try and keep it molasses free but my off the track youngster was fed so much CANDY ( Ie, 10 -12 pounds a DAY of Purina Omelene 200) that now he really doesn't like anything without molasses. Whole grain diet made him nuts, Ultium made him nuts, so I feed a local milled feed that is 11% NSC with out molasses and 15% with. SOOOOOO I mix half and half and he eats it right up. LOL His attitude and demeanor have calmed down SO MUCH since I have had him on this mix. Its 7% fat. THey look and feel amazing.
Have you tried Purina Strategy Healthy Edge? It's high fat but no molasses. It's kind of a step down from Ultium. It not far. One that I had that was kind of spunky on Ultium was fine on HE
I feed the healthy edge... But very moist and tends to clump.. I'm making the switch over to blue bonnet. |
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| My main reason for giving the RG another try is I believe one of my horses is very sensitive to Molasses/Starch. He did good on the whole grain diet (Oats/Barley/Rice bran) but didn't look like I wanted him to. I went to a nice low starch, locally safe milled feed that is 15% NSC. THey look outstanding but one of mine is kind of showing ulcer sensitivity now. BUT, with curost I have got my horses hind guts working good SO I am going to give RG a try again. Its readily available here in CA so I really hope it works. |
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