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Location: Kansas | Has or does anyone feed it? I'm not talking a lot, like less than a pound per day. I was told it is very high in protein. |
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| I work at a soy crush plant...
It is 46-48% protein. Typical usage is in hog, poultry, and dairy rations.
Its included in some feeds, mostly not fixed ingredient feeds, so when soymeal is the most economical way to add protein, that's what they use. When it's not they use something else.
I know I have seen people mention before they felt their horse was sensitive to it.
DAC Bloom is a ground soybean base, it will have all the oil left in it vs soybean meal which has had the oil extracted.
It wouldn't be my first choice to add protein, but you could use it I suppose. Not an nutritionist so I don't know for sure. |
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Location: North Dakota | The owner of the boarding barn I manage feeds it to her horses and the other boarding horses and all the horses look good. They each get 1 cup at each feeding. Some horses get grain just once a day and some get it twice depending on supplements and calorie needs. It has a good amino acid content. Here is a site that came up on google https://kentfeeds.com/nutrition-notes/soybean-meal-and-protein-in-th...
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| I feed about a cup of soybean meal to my hard keepers morning and night.
I purchase it at the local feed store. |
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Location: Where humidity does wonders for hair! | ?We had a ration mixed for our horses and we have it added in. All of mine are so shiney and hair is so soft. Dapples too. Fat and happy |
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| Back in the early 2000s when I took a mare to be bred at Victory Farms Danny Ray fed Soy bean meal mixed with oats and minerals. All of his horses were super fat and shiny. I'm not sure what he's feeding now.
I think you can feed too much though, I'm more of a high fat feeder (rice bran)......they get enough protein in other resources. (grain & hay) |
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Location: Willows, CA | It can be hard to evaluate one ingredient in a large volume like diet, like that of horse, and say "this is good", or "this is bad".
The good-- fairly energy dense, pretty good amino acid profile, palatable, cheap.
The bad--- High Omega 6, inconsistent quality and stability, Oils have been extracted with solvent.
So, where does it fit and how is it used. Soybean meal is usually not fed by itself, but used as a protein booster or filler in blended feeds. The omega 6 to omega 3 ratio is seven to one. If you feed a significant amount of grain based feeds, you are already feeding a lot of omega 6, so it may not be wise to feed another significant source. If you are feeding a quality roughage based diet with little or no additional grain, the added omega 6 from soybean meal used in supplements as a carrier is probably not a big issue to a normal healthy horse. High volumes of soybean meal based feeds may be a different matter.
Very little soy oil is mechanically extracted. The most common practice is to use solvents to extract the oil. Whether there is a residual amount of solvent in soybean meal, I suppose, depends on the facility that does that extraction. It is likely low, but I personally have only been involved with non-solvent processes, so I can't speak specifically to that.
I never use soybean meal in a horse formulation. My opinion is that there are better choices.
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| It is a cheap, high protein, energy source.
I've fed it off and on when my mare only had access to grass hay or needed more protein in her diet. If you look up scholarly articles, there are a few out there about balancing it in a diet for horses -
basically the take home is this: Yes you can feed it. There are other protein options on the market but it will suffice if looking to lower costs but keep protein higher. |
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Location: Kansas | Only reason I ask....I currently feed it to my mare who slicked out and dappled up in no time on it, alongside her feed. Was eventually looking at feeding it to my 2 year old as well. |
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Location: North Central Iowa Land of white frozen grass | I have fed it for years. My horses all look great on it. I have my feed mixed at our local feed mill. And yes they are very carefull about contamination.
Edited by BS Hauler 2017-05-25 10:48 AM
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