If you feed a senior feed,which do you prefere.I know many feed purina senior,but I am looking at the Buckeye senior or Moormans senior.Just would like input from you guys.This will be for my 16 yr. old barrel horse.

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Poor Old Stu, he's going to old mans food, but at least he gets a wash job regularly!  Boy I'm funny today.

I've heard good things about Moormans, but it isn't very available around here, so we stick to Equine SR Purina. 

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I use Equine Senior on my 22yr old barrel horse, and I have noticed that this year he has probably done the best running since i have ownded him.

Purina's Equine Senior. We just went to a Co-Op horse seminar last night. I had switched from Purina feeds when I moved to Co-op feeds. We even stepped it up on fat content from what I had been feeding. My problem child gelding who's 14 dropped weight and never would come back no matter how much corn oil and Equi-jewel we added. So I contacted Purina and asked them how they were different and wound up switching back. We put my gelding and our 19 yr old on the Senior since Dec. My gelding was sick at the first of this month from an infection and today he was ripping up the field with energy I haven't seen in a couple of years! They both have gained weight and they look better and they last longer with their workouts and don't seem to bottom out like they were.

I mentioned this to the co-op rep last night--NOT a good thing to do! and her response was that so & so some big national reining dude that they have on their bags feeds it and his horses are doing great... but she did finally admit it was good feed! It's more expensive, but I'm learning you get what you pay for and some critters just take more!

I like Nutrena's line of sr feed the best.  I've also used the Kent line of sr feed, not sure what its called, my mom fed it while she was keeping an old horse for me, it worked great. I've tried Easy keeper sr feed (MFA feed) and liked it at first but you have to be sure you get the sr feed. They have a whole line of easy keeper and I ended up with the wrong kind once and it screwed my horse up. Guess the bags aren't easily marked.

I've also tried Tindle trails sr feed but it isn't high enough in fat.

I've tried Kent Sr., Nutrena Sr, Purina Sr.  and I like the purina best!!  My 19 year old mare looks great and has more spunk.  It does cost a little more but I noticed it doesnt take as much and I mix it with beet pulp.  She loves it too and she is a picky eater.

Tindle is probably the worse feed I have ever seen. It's full of dirt and trash off the floor. Even their plain grains are trash filled.

I won some Tindle feed one time and not knowing, took it home and opened a bag. It had floor sweepings in it with metal filings.

I am feeding my 29yr old Prime Quality Maturity. I actually like the Equine SR better. But there is a $3.00 per bag price difference.

Love Purina Senior. I have a pic of my 25 year old mare in the photo album and we had taken her about five years ago to get bred, she didn't take, and when I picked her up she was about 200 underweight. She's gotten Equine Senior every since....

HOWEVER

WARNING

If you have an older horse that eats like a pig you MUST soak the senior first. We lost our sweet and perfect older horse to a choke on senior.... I think the vet may have had a hand in making it worse. Tried to save him to the tune of $1,500 but finally had to take pity and put him down. Makes me cry just typing it.

Also, always make sure that there are NO clumps in the feed as the sticky makes nice little balls that can also choke a horse....

My old boy gets the Equine SR along with Complete Advantage, Alfalfa Pellets and his other supplements.  He really blossomed when I added the Complete and looks the best he has in a couple of years.  This is the first winter (in a long time) that he has't dropped a significant amount of weight.

When I lived back home in New York, I fed Blue Seal Vintage Senior and really liked that.  It was so hard switching to Purina after giving that for a few years.

And another thing, I always soak my geldings feed, regardless.  He's choked in front of me in the past and it is not a pretty thing to witness.  On the otherhand, it's a great way to get extra water into them in the summer (and winter).  My mare is 6 and she gets her grain watered down too.

Buckeye is AMAZING. I had 2 old broodmares, 21 and 24. I took them down to get bred and they lost at least 200lbs each at the breeding farm. They looked almost starved to death. I put them on Buckeye senior and let me tell you 6mos later you'd never know they had lost an ounce. I actually think they looked better than they did before I took them down to get bred. I ended up not getting any colts out of them that year but Buckeye saved their lives. It's VERY palatable and not near as expensive as the Purina feed. I can do with out that Purina stuff. I have also used the Buckeye Senior on any of my underweight or hard keeper horses. It's truly amazing.

Thanks for the heads up on the Buckeye. I put in for a dealer locator and there is one right down the road from me!

I love my Purina but if I can get the same or better for a little less money than I will !!
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I'm a firm believer in Purina Equine Senior. We have an "old boy" that is 36 this year. No one believes that he is that old. He looks and acts like a teenage horse. He was still running barrels and winning open saddles when he was 24! He's been on Purina Senior since he was 18.

Sorry guys, I'm sure other senior feeds are just as good, but I'll stick with the Purina. It costs a little more, but my " Senior" is worth it.