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Location: Willows, CA | I know I should just leave this alone, but as the person who developed Stabilized Rice Bran use in horses, I can't let plain ignorance of what it is slide. First, stabilized Rice Bran, when properly done is certainly not a waste product. It was developed for human nutritional use as a stand alone ingredient, and treated as a human grade product at all times. The process is a proprietary mechanical extrusion and very controlled to deactivate an enzyme that causes the fat to go rancid while maintaining the full nutritional profile that naturally occurred in the bran. This equipment is not used for any other food ingredient. The resulting product has been used as a base for nutritional support for AIDS research, and has absolutely NO chemical additives of any kind, ever. As to it sitting around, again this is completely wrong. Stabilization equipment is in the rice mill and processes the bran on its own food grade line within minutes of the milling process. Since it is worth many times the value of the rice it is removed from, it would be hard to call it a waste product. Raw rice bran, on the other hand, is a waste product, and should never be fed to horses, though many do. I have said this many times. As to an empty stomach, this is almost too foolish a statement to respond to, but I will. Roughage, Roughage, Roughage. There was no place in nature that a horse could eat nine pounds of grain per day, and no place in the digestive system that it fits. When a horse needs more energy, it needs to eat more or better roughage. If it needs more energy than the roughage can provide, that energy needs to be in the smallest package possible so as not to disrupt proper roughage digestion. Truly Stabilized Rice Bran can be a valuable component in a package that fits in the digestive system, providing additional needed energy without disrupting the proper processing of the most natural form of energy, high quality forage.
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| I have an older gelding that is almost all thoroughbred reg as a QH. My feeding program is VERY simple. Feed and Platinum Performance. He is retired now but when I ran him he got UGARD everyday. He is kind of a high anxiety horse but found UGARD worked great. I just make sure that he gets enough feed. I feed a mid price 14% protein feed made by a local mill. I feed 3 lbs. in the morning an three pounds at night. In the winter he does get hay and I increase his feed to 4 lbs morning and night. I have tried every supplement out there and given each a long trial--6 months to a year. Plastnum works best for me. | |
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Location: Willows, CA | streakysox - 2016-10-03 11:05 AM
I have an older gelding that is almost all thoroughbred reg as a QH. My feeding program is VERY simple. Feed and Platinum Performance. He is retired now but when I ran him he got UGARD everyday. He is kind of a high anxiety horse but found UGARD worked great. I just make sure that he gets enough feed. I feed a mid price 14% protein feed made by a local mill. I feed 3 lbs. in the morning an three pounds at night. In the winter he does get hay and I increase his feed to 4 lbs morning and night. I have tried every supplement out there and given each a long trial--6 months to a year. Plastnum works best for me.
Platinum makes a nice line of products. Stabilized Rice Bran base on most of them, and they actually put what they say in the bucket. You might be amazed how many manufacturers don't. | |
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