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Location: So. Cali. | Just curious. I know years back when I asked the popular answer was just COB. I know just a good balanced diet is most important, but wanted to ask what everyone feeds their weanlings these days.
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Location: Silver Lake, MN | I'm feeding oats, flax seed, free choice loose minerals, salt and free choice grass hay. Supplement with alfalfa hay. I like keeping things natural.  |
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  That's White "Man" to You
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| Alfalfa and Ultium Growth.
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Scorpions R Us
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Location: So. Cali. | Love the feed back complete with pictures!! My filly was on Safechoice mare & foal along with alfalfa pellets, beet pulp and Farnam Grow Colt, but after the Safechoice scare I pulled it. Seems to be on the East Coast more, but rather be safe than costly.
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| Mine were on LMF but I am making my own mix now. It is a little odd but here it is an it seems to be working really well. My orphan filly is just as big as a filly born the same day. I don't have good pictures of her on this computer though. We are also using it on a rescue mare who foaled in Sept and was a good 200 lbs underweight probably more. She has been gaining steadily and her baby is growing well too.
I use a mix of oats, alfalfa pellets, peas and pumpkin seeds . I also add horsetech hi point grass supplement, oil (usually a flax,coconut, fish oil mix) but sometimes rice, and an herbal mix , I use muscle mass on the ones running and make up my own for the others to save a little. I also use curost on some. They love it even if it is a weird mix.
They all get mix hay as well.
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Location: Desert Land | With my soy allergic horses and all of the issues with the monensin poisoning I pulled all of the processed feeds and scrutinize everything that I feed them now. And of course this what your Princess got during her short visit at my house 
-Alfalfa 2x a day
-Free choice teff grass.
At night they get:
-Alfalfa/timothy pellets
-Shredded beet pulp (no molasses)
-Max E glow race bran (it’s the only stabilized rice brand I could find that was soy free other than Renew Gold and my horses didn’t seem to like RG)
-Adeptus Augment vitamin (again very hard to find one that is soy free) and I add a little 100% rice bran oil to mix it all together.
I am also a huge fan of SeaBuck and need to start incorporating that back in the mix. My horses were always shiney even with a coat and no ulcer issues.
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| TheOldGrayMare - 2016-11-17 1:11 PM
With my soy allergic horses and all of the issues with the monensin poisoning I pulled all of the processed feeds and scrutinize everything that I feed them now. And of course this what your Princess got during her short visit at my house
-Alfalfa 2x a day
-Free choice teff grass.
At night they get:
-Alfalfa/timothy pellets
-Shredded beet pulp (no molasses)
-Max E glow race bran (it’s the only stabilized rice brand I could find other than Renew Gold and my horses didn’t seem to like RG)
-Adeptus Augment vitamin (again very hard to find one that is soy free) and I add a little 100% rice bran oil to mix it all together.
I am also a huge fan of SeaBuck and need to start incorporating that back in the mix. My horses were always shiney even with a coat and no ulcer issues.
I also have a horse who is very sensitive to soy so I have eliminated it from my feed now and make my own. |
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Location: Desert Land | cutnrunqhmt - 2016-11-17 11:15 AM TheOldGrayMare - 2016-11-17 1:11 PM With my soy allergic horses and all of the issues with the monensin poisoning I pulled all of the processed feeds and scrutinize everything that I feed them now. And of course this what your Princess got during her short visit at my house
-Alfalfa 2x a day
-Free choice teff grass.
At night they get:
-Alfalfa/timothy pellets
-Shredded beet pulp (no molasses)
-Max E glow race bran (it’s the only stabilized rice brand I could find other than Renew Gold and my horses didn’t seem to like RG)
-Adeptus Augment vitamin (again very hard to find one that is soy free) and I add a little 100% rice bran oil to mix it all together.
I am also a huge fan of SeaBuck and need to start incorporating that back in the mix. My horses were always shiney even with a coat and no ulcer issues. I also have a horse who is very sensitive to soy so I have eliminated it from my feed now and make my own.
That's pretty much what I had to do. It takes a while to mix everything up for 8 head currently, but at least I have control of how much they are getting and can tweak it as neccessary. I did find one company that mixes up almost exactly what I am, but there's only 2 places in So Cal that carry it and it's not worth the 2 hour drive, so I will continue to mix it myself. It's amazing the changes my horses have went through since I went soy free. |
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | Oats and alfalfa cubes twice a day, free choice minerals and out on pasture 24/7
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| For you so Cal gals ( 3C and Old Grey Mare), Integrity ( Star Milling) makes an awesome stabilized rice bran product here locally. Almost all the feedstores carry it and they have a safe mill right there in Perris. |
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Location: God's country...aka TEXAS | Renew Gold and alfalfa. |
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Location: Desert Land | FLITASTIC - 2016-11-17 11:29 AM For you so Cal gals ( 3C and Old Grey Mare), Integrity ( Star Milling) makes an awesome stabilized rice bran product here locally. Almost all the feedstores carry it and they have a safe mill right there in Perris.
It wont work for me as it has soy in it. Integrity is what I had used in the past and I did like it. But it's too hard to buy 2 different products and split it up between the soy allergic and non soy allergic....so Max E Glow it is! |
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Location: Willows, CA | Potter Ranch has all theirs on RG and Alfalfa/Grass hay. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | I keep it easy. They come off of pasture so I put them on our home raised grass hay-free choice. Ultium Growth and THE Muscle Mass. They look super and we have never had OCD issues in 16 yrs of raising horses. |
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| wyoming barrel racer - 2016-11-17 7:57 PM
I keep it easy. They come off of pasture so I put them on our home raised grass hay-free choice. Ultium Growth and THE Muscle Mass. They look super and we have never had OCD issues in 16 yrs of raising horses.
Mine sure gained a bunch in just a short time on my mix and the muscle mass. I was going to ask you about feeding it to babies. |
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Location: Texas | Mine are on safe choice. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | cutnrunqhmt - 2016-11-17 7:07 PM wyoming barrel racer - 2016-11-17 7:57 PM I keep it easy. They come off of pasture so I put them on our home raised grass hay-free choice. Ultium Growth and THE Muscle Mass. They look super and we have never had OCD issues in 16 yrs of raising horses. Mine sure gained a bunch in just a short time on my mix and the muscle mass. I was going to ask you about feeding it to babies.
I only do 1/2 a scoop. A full scoop is for a 1000 lb horse. |
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 Ima Cool Kid
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Location: TN | 14 % pellets, alfalfa pellets , soybean meal free choice salt & mineral mix. bermuda hay |
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Ima Cool Kid
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Location: TN | 14 % pellets, alfalfa pellets , soybean meal free choice salt & mineral mix. bermuda hay |
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