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Location: Mountains of VA | Any comments pro or con on EquiPride?? |
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Veteran
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| ME! ME! ME! I just use Equipride. LOVE it. I feed two scoops EP with 10lbs of a generic 12% pellet. My horses look and feel amazing. I know some people are shy of "cure-all" products, but with EP it really makes sense. It basically overhauls their digestive tract and makes it work to the best of its ability which obviously causes the rest of the horse's body to function to the best of its ability. The price is awesome too. I'm getting horses that look better than they did on feeds like Ultium, for half of the price. The only con I can find is that my picky eater didn't want it at first. I had to soak her feed for about a week, now she eats it fine. It has a funny smell, like old wine. Great product, I recommend it to anyone who will listen. |
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Extreme Veteran
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| I use them both and love them. I have an ulcer prone gelding and having him on the equipride helps him utilize his forage more and has really helped keep his ulcers nice and calmed down. Also they get a WONDERFUL shine on them and look awesome. |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Mountains of VA | Thank you for the input. Two women in my area are dealers and were talking to me about it over the weekend at the Virginia Barrel Classic. I am considering trying it on the two that I'm hauling this year.
Would love to hear anymore comments, good or bad.
Thanks
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  Neat Freak
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | Most of mine wouldn't hardly touch it. I bought a bucket and fed it to some and later tried it on my weanlings. They didn't appear any different than before and it was pretty spendy so I opted not to continue feeding it. |
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 Not Afraid to Work
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| Ive heard great things. My horse wouldnt eat it but he gobbles forco up. |
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Fire Ant Peddler
Posts: 2881
| I have used it for years but really like Platinum Performance better. I did buy some Equipride yesterday for my two year old because the PP is a little too high octane for a horse that is barely broke that you are riding. |
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Location: South Dakota | I bought one tub of Equilix and my horses ate it at first for awhile but there is still half of it left and they don't even touch it. |
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 I'm not opinionated
Posts: 4597
Location: Online | I use it, and have no complaints. I feed it to every horse but my #1, she gets Platinum, but PP is way too expensive to feed to everything. EP is a lot more cost effective and my other horses look and feel great. I put my old horse on EP that wasn't digesting his hay very good this winter and he went from mushy poops with a lot of stems in it to good round well digested poops in a matter of days. I was impressed.
I used the lick tub this winter, but they would go through it too fast and I couldn't afford a tub a week. So I went back to putting it in their grain once a day. |
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 I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | Mine would only eat very little of it. I bought it to give him a short break from FORCO. He will eat the FORCO right out of my hand. I know a few people that have good results with it but most have now gone to FORCO. |
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 Dr. Ebay
Posts: 8507
Location: Land Of Oz | Cons: They won't stop eating it! Lol, they are fatsos now. No Equilix tubs for a while.  |
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I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
Posts: 64864
Location: In the Hills of Texas | Jinx - 2014-06-03 3:39 PM Cons: They won't stop eating it! Lol, they are fatsos now. No Equilix tubs for a while.
I find it interesting how some horses won't eat it while others won't stop eating it. I would think it has to do what is lacking in their feed. Hay is so different from one part of the country to the other. |
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Member
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| My picky eater LOVES it. I was feeding him Bluebonnet total advantage and he was a hot mess. He was consistently nervous at a race, would not settle down even tied to the trailer. Started feeding him a cheap grain from the local feed store and Equipride and he almost fell asleep the last three weekends at the barrel race! That was enough to sell me on it. |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 898
Location: Mountains of VA | I am going to try and get a sample from our local dealer. I want to make sure my nervous, anxious, worry wart, picky eater is going to eat it first. I do have her on U-gard which I like and have good results with but this weekend at the Virginia Barrel Classic sent her into a melt down. She still is not eating her grain but is out on pasture at night.
Thank you for all the comments.
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Neat Freak
Posts: 11216
Location: Wonderful Wyoming | Nevertooold - 2014-06-03 3:00 PM Jinx - 2014-06-03 3:39 PM Cons: They won't stop eating it! Lol, they are fatsos now. No Equilix tubs for a while.
Edited by wyoming barrel racer 2014-06-03 11:43 PM
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Member
Posts: 26
| Mine wouldn't stop eating the tubs either! The equipride does seem to be making a difference in my heard though. I think there is a lot to be said for what is lacking in the grass and hay of certain parts of the country. Equipride was developed about 100 miles from where my hay comes from, maybe they know what is missing! |
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Regular
Posts: 91
Location: North Dakota | I started my fatty geldings on the Equilix tub in Jan - I started w/ the 50 lb tub and they ate it in 3 weeks so I was told when first introduced if they are lacking something they will eat it until they get what they need then level off - SO....I bought a 125 lb tub in March and there is about 1/4 of it left so they have leveled off. I really like how well my horses look on it! |
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Dr. Ebay
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Location: Land Of Oz | Nevertooold - 2014-06-03 4:00 PM Jinx - 2014-06-03 3:39 PM Cons: They won't stop eating it! Lol, they are fatsos now. No Equilix tubs for a while.
Edited by Jinx 2014-06-04 11:06 AM
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 Certified Snake Wrangler
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Location: North MS | Mine wouldn't eat the tub- barely touched it. Were on free choice pasture (coming into spring), free choice hay and eating ADM Forage First grain (I can't remember which type right now). I posted a pic on here once and the company called wanting to make amends---- really odd how they got my phone number though. |
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