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| SKM - 2016-10-28 11:16 AM
TheDutchMan01 - 2016-10-28 10:08 AM
SKM - 2016-10-28 10:50 AM
This was a list I made in March of 2015.
Ionophore Free Companies:
Purina
Blue Bonnet
Renew Gold
Manna Pro
Standlee Hay
Buckeye
Progressive Nutrition
Seminole
Ametza Hay Pellets
Total Equine
Chaffehay
Danco/Omni's
Woody's
Triple Crown- Nebraska mill is ionophore free. Seguin TX is supposed to be updating the facility so it will eventually be ionophore free. Byhalia MS is NOT ionophore free!! Recently TC Has had problems with too much sulphur in their feeds and it's been making horses very sick. Use caution.
Nutrena - depends on the mill. Abilene TX is ionophore free. Sterling CO is NOT ionophore free!!
Isn't progressive made by cargill, who makes nutrena?
Like I said, this list was made a year and a half ago so it might be slightly outdated. I know Triple Crown had out sourced to Cargill/Nutrena. But then recently Blue Bonnet started milling for them too. But I don't know if they still use Cargill too.
I have no idea about Progressive. Cargill is who makes Nutrena.
I read southern states was milling for Triple Crown at some point wonder if they still are because they are not a clean mill either. They have separation but still have on site. |
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Location: Back in MT BABY!!! | SKM - 2016-10-28 10:16 AM
TheDutchMan01 - 2016-10-28 10:08 AM
SKM - 2016-10-28 10:50 AM
This was a list I made in March of 2015.
Ionophore Free Companies:
Purina
Blue Bonnet
Renew Gold
Manna Pro
Standlee Hay
Buckeye
Progressive Nutrition
Seminole
Ametza Hay Pellets
Total Equine
Chaffehay
Danco/Omni's
Woody's
Triple Crown- Nebraska mill is ionophore free. Seguin TX is supposed to be updating the facility so it will eventually be ionophore free. Byhalia MS is NOT ionophore free!! Recently TC Has had problems with too much sulphur in their feeds and it's been making horses very sick. Use caution.
Nutrena - depends on the mill. Abilene TX is ionophore free. Sterling CO is NOT ionophore free!!
Isn't progressive made by cargill, who makes nutrena?
Like I said, this list was made a year and a half ago so it might be slightly outdated. I know Triple Crown had out sourced to Cargill/Nutrena. But then recently Blue Bonnet started milling for them too. But I don't know if they still use Cargill too.
I have no idea about Progressive. Cargill is who makes Nutrena.
Woody's was purchased by some big company last year (Straton something?)....not sure what their practice is since then. Hopefully they kept their level of quality. |
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Location: Dubach, LA | I have an older gelding on Nutrena Senior. He absolutely cannot eat feed that contains beet pulp. He choked badly on soaked beet pulp once and again when I tried to move him over to Purina Senior (which lists beet pulp as second or third ingredient.)
Bluebonnet feeds rely heavily on beet pulp. Who has a suggestion for a safe feed?
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Location: Prosser, WA | Does anyone know about LMF? |
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| kakbarrelracer - 2016-10-28 12:26 PM
Does anyone know about LMF?
LMF says they are safe I do not know if they have an complete separate facility or not though. I would guess not as I was finding whole corn in my Sr feed for a while this summer and mills use corn to sweep the chutes sometimes. |
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Location: LuluLand~along I64 Indiana | anybody feeding buckeye? my local guy switched two weeks ago and i liked that they are on the free list. planning on making the switch early next month. just curious what you guys think of the product. |
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http://m.nutrenaworld.com/news-events/2016/index.htm |
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Location: Montana | rodeomom3 - 2016-10-28 5:52 AM
The risk of contamination is reason enough but Nutrena is not a fixed formula feed meaning they can change ingredients according to the avalibilty of ingredients-it does not have to match the tag on the bag. I fed safe choice years ago when I fed grain and my horses would sometimes refuse to eat, I would try a different bag and they would eat.
Well said.
That is two things, each of which should be a deal killer.
ETA
The last I heard about Progressive it was bought out by Cargill but still operates independently. We feed it and swear by it. They are fixed ingredient and my colts tell me they are good ingredients. Nothing like a bunch of racebred weanlings to tattle on a bad feed manufacturer.
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Location: North Dakota | SKM - 2016-10-28 11:16 AM
TheDutchMan01 - 2016-10-28 10:08 AM
SKM - 2016-10-28 10:50 AM
This was a list I made in March of 2015.
Ionophore Free Companies:
Purina
Blue Bonnet
Renew Gold
Manna Pro
Standlee Hay
Buckeye
Progressive Nutrition
Seminole
Ametza Hay Pellets
Total Equine
Chaffehay
Danco/Omni's
Woody's
Triple Crown- Nebraska mill is ionophore free. Seguin TX is supposed to be updating the facility so it will eventually be ionophore free. Byhalia MS is NOT ionophore free!! Recently TC Has had problems with too much sulphur in their feeds and it's been making horses very sick. Use caution.
Nutrena - depends on the mill. Abilene TX is ionophore free. Sterling CO is NOT ionophore free!!
Isn't progressive made by cargill, who makes nutrena?
Like I said, this list was made a year and a half ago so it might be slightly outdated. I know Triple Crown had out sourced to Cargill/Nutrena. But then recently Blue Bonnet started milling for them too. But I don't know if they still use Cargill too.
I have no idea about Progressive. Cargill is who makes Nutrena.
I've emailed the TC rep and asked her about the mill that makes the TC feed that showed up suddenly at my local fleet farm last week. I was told it was an Ionophore FREE facility and is milled at consumer supply in SD. From what I can tell the information I got is true. They don't seem to produce any medicated feeds according to their product list on their website. The only reason I looked in TC is because a few horses at the boarding barn I manage are on safechoice original and senior by their owners request and I would rather them be on Triple Crown as atleast it is a fixed formula and if it is produced at a safe mill that will make me feel alittle better about feeding it to them. |
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 A Barrel Of Monkeys
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Location: Texas | Texas and Oklahoma peeps, Red River feed makes 0 medicated feed in their mill. Most of their products list a fixed formula of ingredients.
Bryant doesn't use ionophores in their mill, but they do use Chlortetracycline in some of their cattle feeds.
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Go Get Em!
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Location: OH. IO | luluwhit - 2016-10-28 3:25 PM
anybody feeding buckeye? my local guy switched two weeks ago and i liked that they are on the free list. planning on making the switch early next month. just curious what you guys think of the product.
Made the switch to BUCKEYE after the TRIBUTE FEED DEAL......feeding less and doing great:) |
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Location: Riding or working in Texas | this may sound bad but i have to ask.
which of these feeds is affordable? i mean really me feed bill is quite high and i do give my horses quality feed and hay. i tried to transition them to renew gold which upped my feed bill 200 bucks every two weeks. i know its better for my horses but they were not liking it or believing me. Lol i do not feed Nutrena feeds but yall have me thinking and doing more research in my feeds.  |
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| Turninhard - 2016-10-30 8:19 PM
this may sound bad but i have to ask.
which of these feeds is affordable? i mean really me feed bill is quite high and i do give my horses quality feed and hay. i tried to transition them to renew gold which upped my feed bill 200 bucks every two weeks. i know its better for my horses but they were not liking it or believing me. Lol i do not feed Nutrena feeds but yall have me thinking and doing more research in my feeds.
PM Tdove on here or google Danco hay. They make Omni cubes which are an alfalfa cube that has a little whole oats and flaxseed included in the cubes. They also make an alfalfa cube - Mustang Sally. I have used both of these and do not soak them. On Danco's Facebook page they will have a list of dealers. There are other feeds, but these are the ones I use. |
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Location: Riding or working in Texas | GLP - 2016-10-30 8:26 PM
Turninhard - 2016-10-30 8:19 PM
this may sound bad but i have to ask.
which of these feeds is affordable? i mean really me feed bill is quite high and i do give my horses quality feed and hay. i tried to transition them to renew gold which upped my feed bill 200 bucks every two weeks. i know its better for my horses but they were not liking it or believing me. Lol i do not feed Nutrena feeds but yall have me thinking and doing more research in my feeds.
PM Tdove on here or google Danco hay. They make Omni cubes which are an alfalfa cube that has a little whole oats and flaxseed included in the cubes. They also make an alfalfa cube - Mustang Sally. I have used both of these and do not soak them. On Danco's Facebook page they will have a list of dealers. There are other feeds, but these are the ones I use.
thank you i will look into it.. I do feed alfalfa hay daily and pasture on nice grass pasture. i just ride mine a lot and they need some more if you know what i mean:) |
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Go Get Em!
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Location: OH. IO | There seems to be ALOT of folks on here liking bluebonnet.you may want to price that out as well. |
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I just read the headlines
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| Turninhard - 2016-10-30 8:33 PM
GLP - 2016-10-30 8:26 PM
Turninhard - 2016-10-30 8:19 PM
this may sound bad but i have to ask.
which of these feeds is affordable? i mean really me feed bill is quite high and i do give my horses quality feed and hay. i tried to transition them to renew gold which upped my feed bill 200 bucks every two weeks. i know its better for my horses but they were not liking it or believing me. Lol i do not feed Nutrena feeds but yall have me thinking and doing more research in my feeds.
PM Tdove on here or google Danco hay. They make Omni cubes which are an alfalfa cube that has a little whole oats and flaxseed included in the cubes. They also make an alfalfa cube - Mustang Sally. I have used both of these and do not soak them. On Danco's Facebook page they will have a list of dealers. There are other feeds, but these are the ones I use.
thank you i will look into it.. I do feed alfalfa hay daily and pasture on nice grass pasture. i just ride mine a lot and they need some more if you know what i mean: )
I sure do. Right now I am not riding very much so they aren't getting the Omni cubes. Ask Tdove the ratio of the oats to alfalfa in the Omnis. I THINK it was something like for every 20 lbs. of cubes was 5lbs of oats. I never fed that much of the cubes, I fed 10 lbs do I figured that was about 2.5 lbs of oats. The Flaxseed came to 8 oz. in 20 lbs do 4 oz in 10. But again, Tdove will know. |
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A Barrel Of Monkeys
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Location: Texas | Turninhard - 2016-10-30 8:19 PM this may sound bad but i have to ask. which of these feeds is affordable? i mean really me feed bill is quite high and i do give my horses quality feed and hay. i tried to transition them to renew gold which upped my feed bill 200 bucks every two weeks. i know its better for my horses but they were not liking it or believing me. Lol i do not feed Nutrena feeds but yall have me thinking and doing more research in my feeds.
Red River is very affordable, and so is Bryant |
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Location: Riding or working in Texas | Fun2Run - 2016-10-30 9:21 PM
Turninhard - 2016-10-30 8:19 PM this may sound bad but i have to ask. which of these feeds is affordable? i mean really me feed bill is quite high and i do give my horses quality feed and hay. i tried to transition them to renew gold which upped my feed bill 200 bucks every two weeks. i know its better for my horses but they were not liking it or believing me. Lol i do not feed Nutrena feeds but yall have me thinking and doing more research in my feeds.
okay thank you very much i will look into these feeds as well! |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | I've pretty much stopped the processed grains. I give Purina Active Senior and Ultium Growth when needed but most of mine get soaked alfalfa and/or beet pellets instead of grain. Also just some plain oats. |
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