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Location: Mayerthorpe Alberta | Does anyone feed good old fashioned whole oats anymore ? Do these horses truly need all of this fancy feed we feel obligated to feed ? Thanks for your input |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | I do. I have gotten further and further away from processed feed. I do feed Purina Active Senior to 2 old guys around here, but most anything else that is in the corral, including my show horse, gets soaked alfalfa/beet pellets. I keep oats around to coax horses into the corral, into new pastures and just to give them when I check on them every other day. |
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 Shelter Dog Lover
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| lurker - 2016-07-20 3:36 PM
Does anyone feed good old fashioned whole oats anymore ? Do these horses truly need all of this fancy feed we feel obligated to feed ? Thanks for your input
I do. But only to my big race bred gelding, and only when he needs the extra juice and is running several times a week. When he's going hard, he gets 1 lb morning and evening.
All mine get alfalfa/oat hay cubes in varying weights, minimum 15 lbs, and 1-2 lbs rice bran. They get Formula 707 Daily Essentials and that's it.
The ulcers went away. The dapples came out. The muscle they put on was unreal. The weight they carry makes me feel so smug. Their coats are slick and shiny. Their manes and tails grow like crazy. They're on a 5 week shoeing cycle because their feet grow so fast. These are young, solid horses running 1D/2D times at big races that usually get ridden 5-6 days a week.
It took about a year of no grain to truly get them looking and feeling so good, but it works!! The ulcer issues took a hike about 3 months into a no fortified grain-minimal oats policy.
Who tells us that horses 'need' supplementation? Ummm, the supplement and grain companies, that's who! My feed bill and Ulcergard payments went through the floor! |
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Location: NE Texas | Yep, nothing but whole oats, alfalfa, and Cur-OST. That being said, I only feed a half scoop once a day and use them as a mixer for my product, unless a horse needs some excess energy and then I will bump it up a little bit or feed a half scoop twice a day. I think oats, as any other grain, can cause issue when fed in large quantities.
Edited by Herbie 2016-07-20 3:51 PM
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 Chasin my Dream
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Location: Alberta | Yes....but if a horse needs extra dietary needs from "grain" we feed a extruded brand. |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | We feed crimped oats, crimped barley, and crimped corn at 2:2:1 ratio. We also feed "dynamite", redmonds salt, and apple cider vinegar with the mother. Carol also likes to feed bentonite periodically. I'm surprised our horses eat that Sh!t. Don't ask me why. I just work there.
I forgot, we also feed a tablespoon of turmeric "Golden Paste". It's a big production at our place!
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Location: Where the long tails flow, ND | Herbie - 2016-07-20 3:50 PM Yep, nothing but whole oats, alfalfa, and Cur-OST. That being said, I only feed a half scoop once a day and use them as a mixer for my product, unless a horse needs some excess energy and then I will bump it up a little bit or feed a half scoop twice a day. I think oats, as any other grain, can cause issue when fed in large quantities.
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Location: KS | Yep whole oats with cracked corn, free choice brome hay, sometimes I add alfalfa depending on the time of year. Fresh green grass works wonders wish we had it all the time. |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | Thats what we feed.....m |
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Location: Where you need a paddle... Oregon! | Oats and alfalfa. Renew Gold when she needs it. |
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| Everything gets oats, mineral, dac bloom, and magmax along with a grass/alfalfa mix hay. The 2 racy ones get beet pulp as well. |
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Location: Cocoa, Florida | Whole oats, soaked beet pulp pellets, sometimes cracked corn, alfalfa pellets, coco soya or DAC oil and always a vitamin supplement, usually DAC racehorse formula, was using grostrong mineral. Salt & electrolytes as well. Salt am electrolytes pm. |
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| Crimped oats and a little bit of strategy twice a day and a flake of alfalfa once a day ... they are on pasture 24/7 and a decent roundbale. So far so good! |
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Location: home for the winter...what a dumb idea | Crimped oats, rolled barley, and roasted soy beans. 2-2-1 ratio with mineral and just enough coco soy oil to make the mineral stick. Have feed this for years always have people ask what I feed and they are shocked I don't give anything for coat or hoofs or balboa bla....I have my horse at a fancy show jumping barn. Just about every horse there get some ridiculously expensive grain plus a bunch of supplements and non look as good as mine. |
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Location: Sperry, OK | Herbie - 2016-07-20 3:50 PM Yep, nothing but whole oats, alfalfa, and Cur-OST. That being said, I only feed a half scoop once a day and use them as a mixer for my product, unless a horse needs some excess energy and then I will bump it up a little bit or feed a half scoop twice a day. I think oats, as any other grain, can cause issue when fed in large quantities.
So what is better? Whole oats, rolled oats, steamed oats, crimped oats? What would you pick and why?
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Shelter Dog Lover
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| ACEINTHEHOLE - 2016-07-21 10:52 AM Herbie - 2016-07-20 3:50 PM Yep, nothing but whole oats, alfalfa, and Cur-OST. That being said, I only feed a half scoop once a day and use them as a mixer for my product, unless a horse needs some excess energy and then I will bump it up a little bit or feed a half scoop twice a day. I think oats, as any other grain, can cause issue when fed in large quantities.
So what is better? Whole oats, rolled oats, steamed oats, crimped oats? What would you pick and why?
I have been to,d it depends on what you believe. Whole oats hold the most national value but your horse is not going to digest eve yost, estimates are 10% are not digested. Crimped, steamed start to loose nutrition from bring broke open but your horse can digest most of this type. It is probably a wash either way. I feed a triple washed steamed oat. |
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Location: South Dakota | I took a horse to a man for a 30 day refresher/training. I hadn't been feeding any grain but he fed a scoop of grain a day. I would imagine about a coffee can. That horse looked amazing when he came back. |
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Location: Mayerthorpe Alberta | thank you everyone. I just struggle with what to feed. There are so many choices and so much variety. I'd sure like to go back to just the basics.
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Warrior Mom
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| lurker - 2016-07-21 8:13 PM
thank you everyone. I just struggle with what to feed. There are so many choices and so much variety. I'd sure like to go back to just the basics.
All you can do is experiment. ... what works for 1 horse may not work for another.. |
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