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| What does everyone else feed their horse supplement-wise? My horse is on mediocre grass hay right now so I feed her a Multivitamin, Ulcer guard as a preventative, and Joint supplement.
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| Magnesium and Kombat boots to all 3, harder keeper gets THE muscle mass, COPD horse gets Cur-ost |
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Location: on the fine line between insanity and geniusness | We started feeding the oxygen xt10 early in the summer and love it! My husband rides my barrel horses all day everyday penning cattle and he said he could really tell a difference in their stamina. They seldom come home tired (this is both a good and bad thing!) they all look phenomenal. |
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| Instead of feeding several supplements, I decided that Platinum Performance was way more cost effective. |
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| Started the purina outlast on a few and I just recently put everyone on dynamite dyna pro prebiotic, less than an oz a day it's very cost effective for me. |
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Location: Ohio girl moved to PA | Both my barrel horses are on Actiflex joint supplement, and one of them is on DAC cool gut for ulcers and the other is on Purina Outlast for ulcers. (picky eater lol) |
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| Horse guard trifecta. Love it! |
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| Exceed 6-Way. It covers all my bases - Joint, Gastric Support, Muscle, Hoof, Digestion, and Skin/Coat. I mostly use it for the high levels of joint support - but my big muscled, stout gelding has just been more fluid and forward this year. I believe the Lysine/Magnesium/Vitamin E also really help his muscle recovery. He is 14 years old and just feels the best he's felt in the 9 years I've owned him. He is a 3D horse, but I have made a lot of 2D runs on him this year.
I sure love only having to feed ONE scoop of something. Keeps my barn less cluttered LOL :)
Edited by WrapN3MN 2017-10-20 8:19 AM
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 Bulls Eye
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Location: Oklahoma | I only feed Adeptus Nutrition Augment. It's a multi vitamin/mineral. It won't let me attach before/after pictures. |
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Location: MN | WrapN3MN - 2017-10-20 8:18 AM Exceed 6-Way. It covers all my bases - Joint, Gastric Support, Muscle, Hoof, Digestion, and Skin/Coat. I mostly use it for the high levels of joint support - but my big muscled, stout gelding has just been more fluid and forward this year. I believe the Lysine/Magnesium/Vitamin E also really help his muscle recovery. He is 14 years old and just feels the best he's felt in the 9 years I've owned him. He is a 3D horse, but I have made a lot of 2D runs on him this year. I sure love only having to feed ONE scoop of something. Keeps my barn less cluttered LOL :)
Ditto to the Exceed 6 way! |
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Location: North Dakota | Exceed 6 way, it covers alot in 1 supplement! |
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| Right now, since my babies have the winter off...They just have grass, alfalfa hay and Omelene 200. But when it's competition season they get Rice bran, DAC oil, forco, red cell, fat cat and aloe juice =] |
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| I did just start BIOMANE, and I must say, even in the 10 days they have been on it, pretty amazing stuff. |
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Location: North Dakota | OE Align with Purina Impact |
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Bulls Eye
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Location: Oklahoma | FLITASTIC - 2017-10-20 11:43 AM
I did just start BIOMANE, and I must say, even in the 10 days they have been on it, pretty amazing stuff.
I did 60 days on it. Saw a tiny result but that was it. |
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Location: Lala Land | How long does a bag of Purina Outlast last? |
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Location: Willows, CA | If you have been to one of my clinics you have heard me say "We feed horses into trouble and then try to supplement them out of it." This is not to say that you should never supplement. But, start with the basic management of good nutrition, and you greatly reduce the need for additional supplementation. You spend the money either way, but better forage fits the system better than any supplement does. Start with the best forage you can find as the base of the diet first. Next use additional concentrates, if needed, in the smallest least disruptive amounts that still meet any additional calorie needs. greatly limit or eliminate grain if possible and the result will be better use of the quality roughage that you have purchased. Have salt available. Control parasites. Be sure that dental needs are regularly addressed, as nothing else works properly if the horse can't chew as much as it would comfortably want to (this is much more vital than most horse owners realize and effects both ulcers and energy production).
Do all this, and the need for additional supplements can be greatly reduced or eliminated. There is no silver bullet that works for everyone, and every horse has slightly different individual needs, but you would be amazed at how much you accomplish by putting more effort into the basic diet. |
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| So, at the moment I have a pasture ornament 8yo, a weanling, and a 2 coming 3. The 8yo & coming 3 get 6lbs of a 14/8 pellet per day that has NO added vitamins/minerals. The weanling eats blue bonnet intensify growth. They get free choice teff grass (I LOVE it) and a leave a HorseLic performance 12/8 vit/min lick out free choice. Mine are all fat & sassy. Its cheap(ish) and it works. If I do need to go to a supplement (probably when the 2 is old enough to start exhibitioning) I will add MVP 6 way. I tried it and I love it. Kept my VERY ulcery mare eating through a weekend of barrel racing which has never been done without gastrogard before.... |
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Location: Missouri | Animal Element detox and if that is not enough I will use other animal element products. love them
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| winwillows - 2017-10-20 2:15 PM
If you have been to one of my clinics you have heard me say "We feed horses into trouble and then try to supplement them out of it." This is not to say that you should never supplement. But, start with the basic management of good nutrition, and you greatly reduce the need for additional supplementation. You spend the money either way, but better forage fits the system better than any supplement does. Start with the best forage you can find as the base of the diet first. Next use additional concentrates, if needed, in the smallest least disruptive amounts that still meet any additional calorie needs. greatly limit or eliminate grain if possible and the result will be better use of the quality roughage that you have purchased. Have salt available. Control parasites. Be sure that dental needs are regularly addressed, as nothing else works properly if the horse can't chew as much as it would comfortably want to (this is much more vital than most horse owners realize and effects both ulcers and energy production).
Do all this, and the need for additional supplements can be greatly reduced or eliminated. There is no silver bullet that works for everyone, and every horse has slightly different individual needs, but you would be amazed at how much you accomplish by putting more effort into the basic diet.
I agree with this.. quality hay is very important. I have my feed made at the local feed mill. I get to pick what I want and how much of it. The only extra added things are cocosoya and biotin. This is also cost effective. A bag of feed cost me $10 and I add nothing to it |
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