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Location: North Dakota | Anyone use Purina SuperSport supplement? I have heard some good things about it and was thinking about trying it. It is very reasonably priced and people have seen good results. Also like the fact that it is pelleted instead of powder- seems like my horses are more likely to eat all of it if it is pelleted
https://www.purinamills.com/horse-feed/products/supersport-amino-aci...
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Location: WI | I went through a bag and didn't notice enough of a difference to continue feeding it. |
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Location: Willows, CA | This kind of product is useful if your hay quality is low, or if your overall diet is not high enough in protein for young growing horses. As far as a performance additive for mature horses, there are better directions to go. Growing horses need a protein level for the entire diet of around 15%+ for proper development. That higher protein level provides the building blocks for tissue growth. With poor roughage, a protein concentrate like this may help the overall diet reach those levels. For energy production in a mature horse protein is the least efficient source to convert to energy, and other options serve that purpose better. There are times when the roughage quality is so poor that there is not enough protein in the entire diet to hit the 10% or so needed by mature horses. In that case there may be an application there. However, I would rather spend the money on better roughage than on a protein booster to prop up very poor hay. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | I didn't like that it had cane molasses as one of the top ingredients. Horses don't need sugar. |
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Location: Ohio | We use it on a 7 year old gelding off the track, helped amazingly get his top line back! |
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Location: WI | wyoming barrel racer - 2016-11-16 4:01 PM I didn't like that it had cane molasses as one of the top ingredients. Horses don't need sugar.
Unlike products for human consumption, animal feeds are not required to list ingredients in order of content %. So, just because molasses is near the top of the list - does not mean there is a 'bunch' of sugar in it.
Also, they do need sugar - and they are getting it whether you know it or not. Sugar is found in the forage we feed: pasture, alfalfa, timothy, grass hay. Sugars supply forages with energy required for re-growth, and are a nutritional component needed by both forages and horses.
Bottom line is say this feed is made up of 20% molasses. if you feed 1cup (8oz) of this on top of your 5lbs of grain, on top of 20lbs forage per day. That is attributing 1.6oz out of 25.5lbs of feed. Or 0.39% of his diet. Almost negligible. |
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Location: Willows, CA | I don't know of any state that does not require ingredients of animal feed products to be listed in order of volume, highest to lowest on the label. (we are registered in every state). So, if molasses is listed first, that is the highest volume ingredient in the formulation. The above statement about molasses in a product like this true. The total contribution from a product fed at a very low feed rate is not likely to cause an issue. This is not the case with sweet feeds that contain molasses and are fed at many pounds per day. That can easily effect horses that are sensitive to that kind of digestive disruption. I personally do not add molasses to anything that I formulate, but that found in the product that this thread is about would not be disruptive to most horses. I have other issues with this product, as stated above, but the molasses content is not of major concern to me. |
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | Posting from my phone so I can't share pics and for some reason can't hyperlink, but look up the OTTB Dynamic Host on FB. https://www.facebook.com/DynamicHost2015/I put him on the Supersport when I first got him and he was very thin, and had a pointy top line. He is a very hard keeper. He's blossomed on the SP and plain oats, and a little alfalfa and plain rice bran. I put my lazy barrel horse on it as well. Through the years I've tried Red Cell, Finish Line's blood builder and other stuff and didn't see any difference. I would breeze him and had no trouble getting him back down. Since I put him on the SP he's run off with me several times and is trigger happy, which he never was before. The SP was the only thing different. I wouldn't feed the SP with a high powered feed. I only feed it with straight grains or a balancer where I'm only feeding a pound or two a day. |
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| While pregnant this summer, I lease a horse to a friend of mine. She had her on SuperSport. After I took my mare back, I just put her on good (alfalfa) hay and didn't grain her. A few weeks later the gal leasing her asked how I got her looking so good. . . IMO the SuperSport did nothing for her. |
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Location: WI | winwillows - 2016-11-17 11:41 AM I don't know of any state that does not require ingredients of animal feed products to be listed in order of volume, highest to lowest on the label. (we are registered in every state). So, if molasses is listed first, that is the highest volume ingredient in the formulation. The above statement about molasses in a product like this true. The total contribution from a product fed at a very low feed rate is not likely to cause an issue. This is not the case with sweet feeds that contain molasses and are fed at many pounds per day. That can easily effect horses that are sensitive to that kind of digestive disruption. I personally do not add molasses to anything that I formulate, but that found in the product that this thread is about would not be disruptive to most horses. I have other issues with this product, as stated above, but the molasses content is not of major concern to me. I stand corrected, someone who worked for a feed company told they were not listed in order.
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | linds - 2016-11-17 10:29 AM wyoming barrel racer - 2016-11-16 4:01 PM I didn't like that it had cane molasses as one of the top ingredients. Horses don't need sugar. Unlike products for human consumption, animal feeds are not required to list ingredients in order of content %. So, just because molasses is near the top of the list - does not mean there is a 'bunch' of sugar in it.
Also, they do need sugar - and they are getting it whether you know it or not. Sugar is found in the forage we feed: pasture, alfalfa, timothy, grass hay. Sugars supply forages with energy required for re-growth, and are a nutritional component needed by both forages and horses.
Bottom line is say this feed is made up of 20% molasses. if you feed 1cup (8oz) of this on top of your 5lbs of grain, on top of 20lbs forage per day. That is attributing 1.6oz out of 25.5lbs of feed. Or 0.39% of his diet. Almost negligible.
They get it enough from the grasses they eat. I don't feed it on purpose if I can help it. |
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Location: wherever my gypsy soul lands | I have used it and didn't see a difference. We recently starting feeding Purina Enrich and have seen a MASSIVE difference. Its only a vitamin and mineral supplemental but wow does it work wonders on a horses weight, but more specifically the topline. We reduced our riding horses from 2-3 scoops of Omolene 200 twice a day to 1/2 lb of Enrich plus a handful of Omolene for taste and they look better than ever. |
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Location: North Dakota | About how much is 1/2 lb? I'm trying to visualize it. HA! Like a small coffee can? or what do you use to measure? |
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Location: wherever my gypsy soul lands | It comes with a cup that has it premarked on it. |
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Location: wherever my gypsy soul lands | Here is my yearling. He gets 1/2 lb enrich 2x day and 1/4 omolene 200 2x a day. |
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Location: wherever my gypsy soul lands | Here is my yearling. He gets 1/2 lb enrich 2x day and 1/4 omolene 200 2x a day.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BNFUStohduc/ |
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| We use it and love it. In a lot of cases it is not something you see. The results are in the blood work on how fast muscle recovery happens after exercise. If anyone ever has the chance to go to the Purina research center you will be amazed at the amount of research that went into Supersport. If anyone would like to go visit the research center email me at [email protected] and I can get you a tour of the facility.
We also use it to put more topline on a horse. This won't happen in 1 bag but we have also had good results as well. |
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