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| What do you all feed your horses (both forage and concentrate)? How did you decide on that diet? Pics of your horses on that feeding program would also be GREAT. Thanks!
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| Mine is simple. A 14% pellet--four pounds morning, four pounds evening. 1 scoop of Platinum Performance. About a tablespoon of salt and about 15 pounds of coastal hay split morning and evening. Broodmares get GroStrong loose minerals free choice. All of mine are a little too fat.
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| alfalfa hay with some grass mixed in
brood mares and colts get lmf development and rice bran
everyone else gets lmf showtime and rice bran
lmf is a brand that has two formulas one for alfalfa and one for grass so it stays pretty balanced.. |
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| 5 lbs. alfalfa/Timothy cubes
4 oz. flaxseed or 1 lb. Renew Gold
I tablespoon salt
Forco
Free choice grass hay.
1 horse gets Cur Ost supplements
This divided into 2 feelings. |
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | 2 lbs whole oats morning and night
7-10 lbs alfalfa mash with CurOst supplements and ground flax
5-7 lbs grass hay |
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Location: Oklahoma | Free choice bermuda hay. 1 scoop alfalfa pellets am and pm.
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Location: London Ontario | I really need to weigh my feed but for now we use a large metal scoop as our measurement. Everything is turned out from 7am to about 7pm or later on a dry lot with a large square bale until the summer when they are on pasture 24/7.
Futurity mare - 3/4 scoop of alfalfa/timothy mini cubes(whatever brand the feed store hay, its local hay I know that) watered down heavily until its a mash along with 1/2 scoop of Integri-t and 1/4 triple cleaned whole oats. Once my hay cubes run out I will be using alfalfa pellets instead. I also add in a serving of Healthy Coat(or veggie oil), and 3 scoops platinum performance. Once the summer comes along I will just have her on Alfalfa, Integri-t, platinum performance and Oil.
Open rodeo horse - husbands team roping horse, my barrel horse gets 1/4 scoop whole oats with 2 scoops platinum performance and some Healthy Coat or whatever oil we have in the barn. |
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | Mine are getting one to two decent sized flakes of good alfalfa, am and pm. Basically free fed Bermuda. A scoop of beet pulp, 2lbs Triple Crown Complete, and THE MM. My buttermilk was pretty thin, lacking muscle, lanky when I got her, just a few months back. Her pic was taken just the other day, hence the fuzzies. My darker buckskin, I don't have a recent pic for. But the picture I have is from this past summer. She's my little firecracker. Can't get enough of her. 
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| This mare at the time was on grass hay and *gasp* oats.
I really try to keep things as simple as I can with my program. I think the reason we see so many horses with gastric issues is because they are man made problems.
Now most of my horses are on an alfalfa/grass mix, Renew Gold and Oats. I also supplement with Exceed 6-Way, but no current pictures as it is the middle of winter here and everyone is wooly :)
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Location: NE Texas | I have the simplest feed program ever! A flake of alfalfa twice a day, one pound of whole oats with Cur-Ost, and a cup of BOSS once a day. On small pasture, but there is no pasture this time of year. I think he's doing pretty well. This picture of him saddled is the dead of winter on the above program. I didn't even blanket this year and his hair coat is so shiny and smooth. Recently (like this week) I replaced my boss with hemp seed oil, as I didn't like the quality of the BOSS or flax seed available to me.
IMO the number one priority of any feed program needs to be top quality forage. Beyond that, all nutrients should come from whole food sources rather than processed grains or concentrates.
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| Blue Bonnet Sr Intensify to my two rodeo horses, 1flake Alfalfa and all the Timothy they will eat. 1scoop twice a day of Align, Lubrysin.
The 2 year old gets Blue Bonnet Growth and Development, 2 flakes of Alfalfa and all the Timothy he will eat. 1scoop twice a day of Align.
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Location: North Dakota | 15 year old mare(she is the one in the picture):
AM: 1lb rice bran with Cur-OST herbs(Plus and Revive) and 1 oz of Camelina oil.
PM: 1lb rice bran
All the grass hay she wants all day and 10lbs of Omnis in her stall at night.
24 year old retired horse:
1/2lb rice bran with a cup of whole oats PM. Along with Tumeric(black pepper and oil to help abosrb) to keep him feeling good. He is on free choice grass hay and he is FAT and happy in his glory years.
The Omnis are a new addition to my mare's program.
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Location: North Dakota | 6 yr old appendix mare
Free choice alfalfa/brome (60/40) hay
Evening grain- 1# Ultium grain + Simply Equine Herbs + Forco
5 year old AQHA mare
Free choice alfalfa/brome (60/40) hay
7# Ultium/day + MVP Exceed 6 way + Simply Equine Herbs
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Location: NE Texas | Hey shakeit, that stocking legged pony makes my heart go pitty pat!  |
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Location: North Dakota | That's the Walk Thru Fire mare I posted about back in Oct 2015 |
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Location: NE Texas | shakeit0410 - 2017-03-01 2:13 PM That's the Walk Thru Fire mare I posted about back in Oct 2015
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Location: North Dakota | Herbie - 2017-03-01 2:15 PM
shakeit0410 - 2017-03-01 2:13 PM That's the Walk Thru Fire mare I posted about back in Oct 2015
We'll be making our way to Oklahoma tomorrow for a couple jackpots and then the Diamonds and Dirt futurity next week. I'm pretty excited to get her in some bigger pens |
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Location: NE Texas | shakeit0410 - 2017-03-01 2:26 PM Herbie - 2017-03-01 2:15 PM shakeit0410 - 2017-03-01 2:13 PM That's the Walk Thru Fire mare I posted about back in Oct 2015 We'll be making our way to Oklahoma tomorrow for a couple jackpots and then the Diamonds and Dirt futurity next week. I'm pretty excited to get her in some bigger pens
Well i wish you the best of luck and safe travels! |
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| Herbie - 2017-03-01 9:54 AM
I have the simplest feed program ever! A flake of alfalfa twice a day, one pound of whole oats with Cur-Ost, and a cup of BOSS once a day.  On small pasture, but there is no pasture this time of year. I think he's doing pretty well. This picture of him saddled is the dead of winter on the above program. I didn't even blanket this year and his hair coat is so shiny and smooth. Recently (like this week) I replaced my boss with hemp seed oil, as I didn't like the quality of the BOSS or flax seed available to me. Â
IMO the number one priority of any feed program needs to be top quality forage.  Beyond that, all nutrients should come from whole food sources rather than processed grains or concentrates. Â
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| I keep it pretty simple I feed 1 1/2 lbs oats 3/4 alfalfa pellet 3 ounces of peas and 2 ounces of pumpkin seeds , hemp seed oil and various herbal mixtures but everyone gets marshmellow root, aloe, spirulina and turmeric. Here is a picture of a mare a few weeks ago I am in Montana and have had the hardest winter we have seen in 20 yrs. No barn still shiny! Had to use picture from Oct/Nov The second picture is from a couple weeks ago. They have all been on alfalfa all winter.
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