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Cindy,

Here is what I feed my horse at a ride to get him to eat more hay, and less 
concentrates. I put his mash which consists of Dynamite Pelleted Grain 
Ration-I can get you the details on it if you like, beet pulp, and about a 
cup of LMF-Performance in a bucket with ALOT of water. I then take the hay 
and push it down into the water. What happens is the hay tastes like his 
mash, so he eats it, and then by the time he gets down to his beetpulp, 
mash, it has soaked up alot more water. The PGR will triple in size, so it 
soaks up a bunch of water too. I also mix in a small amt of DynaSpark
which is the Elyte by Dynamite that uses molasses as the base, so they love 
it.

By the way, the PGR also has Dynamite Plus and High Energy Supplement mixed 
in. My horse gets about a cup a day for a regular ration, I double that on a 
work day, and he gets more of course on an actualy ride day.

PGR is very concentrated, so 3c is equal to a pound of grain. That is why I 
only feed one cup on a non working day.




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> From: "Cindy Stafford" <cjstaf@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [RC]   what to feed during a ride
> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:37:23 -0500
>
> OK, have a nutrition/feed question for the experts...
>
> I am chief research geek (meaning, i surf the net a lot) for a friend who 
> does 50's and is hoping to move up to longer rides soon.  Her horse is a 
> finicky eater, and is on the lean side.  Normal diet is grass pasture, with 
> daily bucket of beet pulp with a concoction of oats, sweet feed, corn and 
> the usual minerals/supplements mixed in, along with a lot of pleading to 
> get him to finish it.  He won't eat beet pulp alone, the other stuff is for 
> the added fat and to get him to eat it.
> So aside from teh daily adventure of trying to get him to finish his 
> bucket, my question, as chief researcher, is what to feed him during the 
> ride itself....
> I should mention here that while it would be great to give him free choice 
> tasty hay, any hay with alfalfa in it causes him metabolic problems, he's a 
> bit sensitive to it.  and because we board, our choices of hay is a bit 
> limited to what they have on hand, which is suffering a bit from the 
> drought we're having.  so the grass hay we're offering him, he's turning 
> his nose up at.
> So back to what to feed him during teh vet hold...he won't eat straight 
> beet pulp.  He eagerly eats grain, but if i understand susan's nutrition 
> articles correctly, grain during a ride would  not be the best choice....Or 
> is a limited amount OK?  If so, what amount is safe?
> Or is there a complete feed that would be OK to give him, that would be 
> digested differently then corn or sweet feed?
>
> am looking foward to the advice from you veterans and veterinarians out 
> there!  :)
>
> Thanks!
> Cindy



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