In your opinion, what is the best senior feed out there? I'm not sure I'm going to switch but I've seen enough arguments regarding senior feeds that I'm interested in doing some research. I am not going to a place where I have to have my feed mixed. I want to be able to go to a store and pick it up...
I may call my vet on Monday as well. I currently use Equine Senior (purina). I need a FULL SOURCE feed because one of my old boys does not have teeth....(He has a few but they are loose).
oh wow..we use Equine Senior as well..We have been having good luck with it but now this makes me wonder...I don't know if I've ever even seen Tripple Crown.
From my personal experience Purina Senior had a tendency to give my senior Arab the runny bums.
When my other senior horse became metabolic, I changed all my horses over to pelleted rice bran and a pelleted vit/min supplement because I thought it would be healthier for all of them, and to keep my feeding life as simple as possible.
What a surprise when the Arab's runny bum pretty much disappeared!
I say pretty much because he will still get a bit of the runs on spring grass and the extreme summer heat/humidity we have.
It has improved by 80% since I took him off Purina Senior and he no longer has runny issues in the winter.
Beet pulp and rice bran with a balanced ration of minerals. The last thing we want to be feeding our old horses is too much protein as it can cause founder and the kidneys to shut down. Look for a high fat, high forage balanced diet. Not just for a pelletized feed.
Also make sure you are getting your hay tested so you can provide the best all round nutrition possible.
He can't eat hay. I give him a flake morning and night just becuase... but he chews it into a cud and spits it out. I buy alfalfa at 16 dollars a bale and he can eat that. but even then only a flake am and a flake pm. that's why he HAS to have a good senior feed. I'll call my vet tomorrow and let you guys know what their suggestion is.
of the two feeds you CAN get I would take Nutrena over Puriana... they are about the same level of company ... OR go with the Enrich32 and add lots of beet pulp and alfalfa pellet/s cubes SOAKED for him...
I just found a distributer for triple crown w/in about 45 minutes of my place. I just e-mailed them to see if they deliver. (It's actually a chick that I show with/against).
OMIGOSH! At $20 per bag! AAHH! I'm already spending about 150 per month! BUT...she's right around the corner from my trainer so I could probably run out there on lesson nights, if she has a place to turn my trailer around...
Triple Crown is amazing. The problem with the Purina Senior is that it is very high in sugar so I always stay away from it because my mare foundered so I need something low in sugar, not the opposite.
i don't know if i'm willing to get into mixing feeds or not. i ad sandclear to pistols once a month and i'm going to start with a joint supplement for black...
All are easy keepers, the 2 mares and blue are fatties and can gain weight on sight. Ri is a growing 2 year old.....
if they are all easy keeper a ration balancer is prob the way to go... with the 2yo you wll want to give with TC it is either 1 1/2 lbs or 2lb a day you will have to read they are all close to the same with about 1/2 lbs difference in some of them ... 1 bag will last one adult horse 50 days so don't trip on the price per bag LOL ... I had sticker shock the first time I got it ... IF one happens to start losing weight they probably wont' just add in some beet pulp or alfalfa cubes/pellets... but with free choice hay and good nutrition I will bet they all will be fine ... you will notice the growing spurts on the 2yo more though I did anyway ... but I am hypersensitive to any changes too so maybe it was just me ...
I just ordered 20 bags of grain to be delivered along with two bags of hay additive? or something like that... I don't know, I spoke to a very nice fella. He explained the differences in the feeds and what to give which horses. He also delivers pine shavings! How convenient is that?
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