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Location: on my horse | My most recent bag of Renew has a lot of corn in it... Which is not a Renew Gold ingredient. Anybody else picked up a bag like this? I emailed the company and sent pictures of my feed but haven't heard back as I just sent it. I also tasted the pieces just to make sure I wasn't crazy or misidentifying it  |
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Location: Not Where I Want to Be | eeeeewwwwwwwww |
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 I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | Corn is usually used for a clean out before starting a new batch of feed. I've been wondering if things would change since seeing the MannaPro label on the bag. |
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Location: on my horse | that's what I was wondering |
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  Keeper of the King Snake
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Location: Dubach, LA | I quit feeding it. It was too hard to find and the gelding who was on it started looking bad. |
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Location: on my horse | CanCan - 2017-02-07 7:11 PM
I quit feeding it. It was too hard to find and the gelding who was on it started looking bad.
what do you feed now?
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Location: on my horse | CanCan - 2017-02-07 7:11 PM
I quit feeding it. It was too hard to find and the gelding who was on it started looking bad.
what do you feed now?
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Location: California | I've been worried about it since seeing Manna Pro on it as well. No corn in the bags I've bought yet.... |
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 Hog Tie My Mojo
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Location: Opelousas, LA | Mine have been good so far but corn..... really? That stinks. |
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| I didn't realize Manna Pro made RG? I thought it was made in Phoenix yet or whatever that label says on the bag. I did feed it for one year, my horses looked great as far as coats, but it wasn't high enough in fat for my one mare, so I put her on stabilized rice bran too, and better hay |
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Location: Willows, CA | I have responded to the inquiry about pieces of corn in a Renew Gold bag. We use a straight food grade Stabilized Rice Bran flush to clean the transfer pipes in the mill of the mix from another of our feed products that we commonly run prior to a Renew Gold run. All this flush and the first several hundred pounds of Renew Gold is to be discarded prior to the start of bagging Renew Gold. This clearly was from the first several bags (perhaps the first bag) of a 88000 pound RG run that was obviously switched over to start bagging too quickly. A remnant of the end of SRB flush must not have completely cleared the transfer pipe that moves the RG to the bagging equipment.
While certainly not a health risk, and is in fact organic corn from a wonderful non GMO organic poultry product that we make, this is totally unacceptable. To be clear, someone may lose their job over this depending on what the production log reads. We have a zero tolerance standard. I have asked the customer for lot numbers from that bag, and information to provide a refund. Our current lot numbers will actually identify the person who made the flush and bag decisions.
As to Manna Pro. They are a master distributor for us. They own none our company ( The Phoenix Company) or Renew Gold, and have zero involvement in the production of Renew Gold. Manna Pro simply warehouses and delivers the product that we make through their very effecient system designed to do so. Nothing has changed in formulation, ingredient quality, or management. Nor will it.
As always, our ingredients are all non GMO, food grade, ( even those few kernels of corn) and made in the same totally medication free safe mills as they always have been.
It is hard to express the frustration when I see a post like this, and the assumptions that are generated when customers read it. We continue to produce Renew Gold to a higher standard of both ingredient quality and production than virtually any equine feed manufacturer in the US.
Edited by winwillows 2017-02-08 1:14 AM
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| Thank you, Win. We know how hard you've worked to make this product the best and to know how much you care about whats going on "beyond the scenes," speaks volumes!! THANK YOU!! |
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 Maine-iac
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Location: Got Lobsta? | I've haven't had a problem at all with the feed. I feed about 10 bags a month - no problems, always consistant. I trust Renew Gold. |
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Location: MS | I've had no problems with mine. My horses look and feel amazing on it.
I finally found a tractor supply that will order it for me.
Enough of my friends liked my results and started ordering it so they're going to stock it now. |
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Location: Wherever They Send Me | Thanks for clearing that up Win...also, love the new bags. The feed seems fresher (plus I can make tote bags out of the bags now).  |
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 BHW Resident Surgeon
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | Pardon my ignorance (not being facetious), but what's so bad about a little corn? |
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 Shelter Dog Lover
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| I don't think it is the corn per say but what the prior product was that necessitated the need for cleaning and possible cross contimsnation from it. I love renew gold and quit processed feeds a long time ago because of the added junk and fillers, I don't want that getting into my RG and "left over" corn means that are not properly cleaning.
Edited by rodeomom3 2017-02-08 10:26 AM
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BHW Resident Surgeon
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | For that matter, what's so bad about GMO feed? |
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Shelter Dog Lover
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| Bear - 2017-02-08 10:27 AM For that matter, what's so bad about GMO feed?
For me it is not about GMO but the added fillers like soy products that are not good for horses. |
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