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| Posted: Tue Jan 4th, 2011 11:31 pm |
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softride G.O.G Community Member 
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What did they do put "gold" in that feed bag? I guess that is what I get for whinning. We could play the "Remember when" game. LOL
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| Posted: Wed Jan 5th, 2011 01:42 am |
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SunnysMum G.O.G Community Member 
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Be nice if they did put Gold in it. It's an Ration Balancer so they use that as an excuse for the high price.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 5th, 2011 03:45 am |
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Lakota G.O.G Community Member 
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Neutrena is more expensive here too. I'm getting a cheaper kind of generic sweet feed that Tractor supply markets. I'm happy w/it and the horses are doing well.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 5th, 2011 04:32 am |
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TN Trailrider G.O.G Community Member 
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I feed Enrich 12, a vitamin supplement and no grain. I think Enrich 12 has grain in it as it says grain by-products on the label, but mostly vitamins. They get about 1-1/2 lbs. a day. Plus fescue/orchard mis hay and grass. They are both easy keepers. Enrich 12 is about $23 a bag so I'm glad they don't get a lot of it! My Appy's hoofs have gotten so much better with this supplement. They were literally flaking apart and now he's barefoot with hardly a chip in them. Think he was missing some vitamin he wasn't getting with oats and grass.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 5th, 2011 02:04 pm |
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TheBlaze G.O.G Community Member 
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The vitamin supplement I feed is called E-30 by Buckley Brothers, a local feed supply mill and dealer. So their products aren't so expensive since the company makes and sells the product. They have several drive thru feed stores in the area. And about 20 miles or more in every direction from me is farm land. I feed 1 1/2 cups daily to my horse sized horses, and 2 cups daily to my draft. Four bags last me a month and cost $16-$17 a piece. Also, since I board my horses, the sweet feed and hay is all included in my board. I'm pretty lucky!
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| Posted: Wed Jan 5th, 2011 02:10 pm |
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NOELLEE G.O.G Community Member 
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Definitely have learned to use low sugar/low starch feed. I have gone through winters just feeding free-choice fescue/orchard grass hay with good results. Otherwise I feed oats or PE 32 as needed for each individual horse, plus all get pasture grass and free-choice hay, natural salts, plus herbs, and supplements at times. I also like Farrier's Formula for the hooves and coat, use it as a supplement from time to time. I agree, the PE products (12 or 32) help much! Even though the 50# bag is twice as much as some regular pelleted or sweet feed, you use about 1/2 as much to feed. So it weighs out the same, plus I like the higher protein, lower sugar/starch contents. I would prefer to feed just oats, but I found the PE 32 is less likely to build up fat on my easy keepers and helpful if they need to repair muscle or tissue, or keep up endurance. Also, I discovered I feed far less oats per serving than average, really just enough to mix up herbs or supplements. Forage is their main diet.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 5th, 2011 04:59 pm |
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SunnysMum G.O.G Community Member
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Yeah, that's another thing I noticed. Sunny definately has more endurance on the PE 12 or 32 than she did with the Platform Pony. And they found that actually sweet feeds aren't good for horses / ponies. Their bodies aren't designed to prosses properly the refined sugars like Mollassas.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 5th, 2011 09:16 pm |
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Trish G.O.G Community Member 
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I feed oats, a little mineral oil, and daily wormer. Plus hay or pasture depending on the season. Just a handful of oats at that, my horses are easy keepers I found that on sweet feed, the mares dispositions were flightier, a little hotter.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 7th, 2011 05:08 am |
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dawnrider G.O.G Community Member 
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My guy gets nothing but plain old grass hay, the best I can find. (I get it from my cousin, who usually does round bales for his cattle, but he bales a year's supply of square bales from his better fields just for Dawn every year.) Dawn's an easy keeper, stays healthy, fat and shiny, and the vet says he looks great. I had a hard time convincing the vet that's all D gets at first...Vet:"Did you say he just eats hay?" Me: "yep." Vet: "But you supplement..." Me: "Nope." Vet: "He gets nothing else?" Me: "Nope. Nothing." Vet: " No vitamins?" Me: "Nope, but sometimes I let him eat the front yard when I don't want to mow" Vet: "Keep doing whatever you're doing. It's working" I used to feed sweet feed, tried Alfalfa pellets, then low starch pellets, and Dawn just doesn't need them. He was like a hyperactive kid eating candy bars and drinking Mountain Dews on that stuff; spooky, nervous and reactive. He's even tempered and relaxed without. Peg
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| Posted: Fri Jan 7th, 2011 01:59 pm |
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TheBlaze G.O.G Community Member
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Peg, great story! Way to go! Sounds so perfect! I'm hoping that one day I have enough pasture that I don't have to supplement any feed during the good grassy months! Here's to hoping!
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| Posted: Fri Jan 14th, 2011 03:50 pm |
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SunnysMum G.O.G Community Member
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Someone mentioned it elsewhere and I think it's a great idea. If we get enough land when we buy our house, we're planning an half acre grass/herb mix grazing feild for Sunny. So she can have access to it like for an hour an day or something to graze and eat what she wants.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 15th, 2011 03:40 am |
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NOELLEE G.O.G Community Member
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I might have mentioned it in another post... the link below sells herbs for horses and under the article "Gazing herbs" gives great details on what to plant in your own pasture. http://meadowherbs.com/ I am working towards this in my horse pastures.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 15th, 2011 02:38 pm |
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SunnysMum G.O.G Community Member
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It's possible. Like I said, I couldn't remember. Just that I thought it was an awesome idea  Also: http://www.herbnhorse.com is actually cheeper than Meadow Herbs, and doesn't charge shipping. And doesn't require an Minimum Order either.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 15th, 2011 05:00 pm |
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McKTX8 G.O.G Community Member
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Mine are out in pasture 24/7 and have access to round bales of hay all winter long. I do feed 1x per day, they get 1 8 oz sour cream cup of alfalfa pellets and 1 8 oz sour cream cup of SafeChoice feed, plus a T of kelp meal, scoop of Flax meal and one of rice bran. They get that so that I have a chance everyday to get up close and personal and check everyone out prior to going to work. It is just sunrise when I feed and dark when I get home during the week.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 16th, 2011 12:14 pm |
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slipslider G.O.G Community Member 
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The cost of feed keeps going up here as well. I have a senior horse that is unable to eat hay, so has to eat senior feed. I tried many different brands before i found one that she really liked and that one is Nutrena senior. I started out paying around 14.00, now it is up to 16.50. My other three horses are very easy keepers, they have no pasture, so get grass hay and only enough oats to get them to come in everyday for check over. I will add supplements if i see a need. But they are doing fine on this regimen. PS: when my horses were on pasture, that is all they got and were shiny and fat as pigs. I do which i had enough pasture, that i could turn them in it for a few hours each day. It would cut down on hay consumption of course, be more natural environment and they could stay at a healthy weight without getting overfat. But few of us have ideal situations, just have to work with what we have.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 16th, 2011 12:49 pm |
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McKTX8 G.O.G Community Member
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slipslider wrote:The cost of feed keeps going up here as well. I have a senior horse that is unable to eat hay, so has to eat senior feed. You might want to consider cutting part of that with the moistened Alfalfa pellet, like feeding hay, high fiber, and here they are 9.00 a bag. The Alfalfa when moistened just becomes like a mushy powder so even a horse with no teeth could eat it.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 16th, 2011 03:25 pm |
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slipslider G.O.G Community Member
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I use to feed alfalfa mixed in, but then she had a bought of founder this last spring, not from grass because there is none, vet called it mechanical founder. But she seems to have some fatty deposits as well, even though she is not overweight. So i thought it best to cut out the alfalfa, since i feel she needs low sugar and starch. She has done fine with just the feed. She cannot eat hay at all, she has teeth, but has wavy mouth, so that there are cuds all over the ground if given hay. Which i sometimes do, just so she has something to do in between feedings. The problem i had when i added water to her feed, is it would pack down and she was not able to get it, also since this is all she can eat, if i add water, it will freeze in winter and she is unable to eat it all. Started feeding it dry and she eats it all and has kept her weight. Only other thing i will add is shredded beet pulp, it has no nutritional value, but is a good energy source for winter and to keep in her gut. But i feed it separate since she needs the feed more and can eat on the beet pulp as she would loose hay as a gut filler.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 16th, 2011 04:37 pm |
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McKTX7 G.O.G Community Member
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Sounds like you have your finger on the pulse of the situation! The only other idea I have is we have a free choice forage based feed down here called Restore and the feed it to s starving/starved horses at the rescues and the can have access to it 24/7, it's an extruded pellet so it is easy to chew.
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