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Can anyone suggest a low fat, low protein ,high fiber horse feed
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No it's for my barrel racing horse she hurt her leg is on stall rest for 3weeks and she can't compete or be ridden for 8wk i don't want her gaining weight
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She's not exactly mine but her owner got sick and moved out of town so i race her and care for her
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Just grass hay, and you might want to soak it for a few minutes to get out some extra sugar.
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What was she eating before?
I probably wouldn't change anything, just monitor her intake. Although a horse on stall rest will be bored; I wouldn't take away hay, but maybe use a hay net so that it takes longer to eat it.
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Safe Choice isn't low fat...It's low starch. Fat isn't generally an issue.
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Actually Safe Choice Special Care isn't really that low in starch either. Lots out there that are lower, if starch is a concern.
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True. I've never been a fan of Nutrena feeds. If I was looking for a low starch feed I would look at Blue Seal or Triple Crown.
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Purina omolene 500
I would strongly suggest you don't alter her diet too extensively because you run the risk of colic or an impaction if you adjust her diet too quickly.
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The Purina website conveniently doesn't disclose the NSC of this feed, but some internet searching suggests that it has a NSC of 31%? So...if that's true...practically everything is lower in starch.
Triple Crown Senior (11.7%); Low Starch (13.5%); Lite (9.3%)
Nutrena Safechoice Senior and Safechoice Special Care (can't get onto the Nutrena website today, so don't have the exact numbers)
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Whatever. I have used Nutrena Safe Choice Special Care on different occasions very successfully with horses that need lower starch, especially my mini's. If you have a brand other than what I use that you want to recommend, then recommend it, that is all I do when a question is posed. If you don't agree with the responses I give, then give your own advice, but stop slamming every single post I make that is in response to a direct question from the OP, not a response I am hoping you agree with.
As for Nutrena, they have been a fairly consistent feed company, more so than Purina, but I have used both successfully and am currently feeding Purina Ultium Growth and Purina Strategy. I have fed Triple Crown and am not impressed, it didn't do anything for my seniors, or my juniors that I fed it out to and I am not paying their price when the feed isn't doing what it should. Without good pasture, feed grain. With good pasture I would watch the condition of my horses and make the call of whether or not to feed grain.
As for Nutrena, they have been a fairly consistent feed company, more so than Purina, but I have used both successfully and am currently feeding Purina Ultium Growth and Purina Strategy. I have fed Triple Crown and am not impressed, it didn't do anything for my seniors, or my juniors that I fed it out to and I am not paying their price when the feed isn't doing what it should. Without good pasture, feed grain. With good pasture I would watch the condition of my horses and make the call of whether or not to feed grain.
What - exactly - are you trying to accomplish? I know you said she is injured and you don't want her gaining weight, but since she is on stall rest for the injury why feed her anything but good quality grass hay?
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I hope you're not talking to me - I wasn't slamming your response. I actually feed the Nutrena Safe Choice Special Care...but the name is somewhat misleading because it's not *that* low in starch, if that is the main goal. As my vet says "I love everything about this feed except the name." My horses like much better than Triple Crown Lite, so it becomes an issue of actually getting them to eat it...and they are all too expensive to waste.
I feed Nutrena Special Care Senior too - but I preferred the Triple Crown Senior to the Nutrena Senior....however, my feed store closed and since my fat horses didn't like the Lite as well as the Nutrena Special Care, I switched all my horses to Nutrena.
I think most of the bigger brands can be perfectly acceptable; it's just a matter of knowing what you are getting. I assumed the OP had a sensitive horse and was looking for LOW starch (e.g. like Triple Crown 30% ration balancer), but since the feed it is already being fed is pretty high NSC, just about anything would deliver a lower starch alternative.
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