[retreadeventer]

Hey....if I may....this is new, smart, and interesting and here's why.
If you take a feed like Triple Crown, or any sweet feed, and REALLY really condense it down to what you are REALLY paying for, the fat, the protein, the good carbs -- there would be a pelleted concentrate with all the good stuff in it that your horse needs for energy and performance as well as weight maintenance and general good health. Ok. so you want this feed in a commercial mix - well, you get the good stuff along with pellets, chunks, crap and stuff that creates FILLER so your horse feels as though he's eating something. Like, 10 oz. of that 5-6 lbs. feed he's getting morning and night is really doing him some good and the rest is just basically going thru the gut. Well, the Pure feed starts with the 10oz ration balancer and that's the good stuff and it's already condensed for you and you dont' have a lot of the other crap. Instead they've utilized good chopped forage hay to help the horse enjoy eating a meal. A bag will last a horse twice as long as a bag of regular sweet feed grain. So if its competitively priced, you're going to get twice as much actual feed. I just picked up two bags of it and eager to give all a report on how they are doing. But I know there are a lot of hunter/jumper barns as well as race barns looking seriously at this recipe because of the good sense it makes in understanding the way horses eat and what makes them happy. (You can feed what you need without feeding a lot.)

[Scaramouch]

Hey....if I may....this is new, smart, and interesting and here's why.
If you take a feed like Triple Crown, or any sweet feed, and REALLY really condense it down to what you are REALLY paying for, the fat, the protein, the good carbs -- there would be a pelleted concentrate with all the good stuff in it that your horse needs for energy and performance as well as weight maintenance and general good health. Ok. so you want this feed in a commercial mix - well, you get the good stuff along with pellets, chunks, crap and stuff that creates FILLER so your horse feels as though he's eating something. Like, 10 oz. of that 5-6 lbs. feed he's getting morning and night is really doing him some good and the rest is just basically going thru the gut. Well, the Pure feed starts with the 10oz ration balancer and that's the good stuff and it's already condensed for you and you dont' have a lot of the other crap. Instead they've utilized good chopped forage hay to help the horse enjoy eating a meal. A bag will last a horse twice as long as a bag of regular sweet feed grain. So if its competitively priced, you're going to get twice as much actual feed. I just picked up two bags of it and eager to give all a report on how they are doing. But I know there are a lot of hunter/jumper barns as well as race barns looking seriously at this recipe because of the good sense it makes in understanding the way horses eat and what makes them happy. (You can feed what you need without feeding a lot.)

By that logic, why doesn't everyone just feed a ration balancer and canola oil in addition to their hay? I agree that many traditional commercial feeds are loaded with useless garbage, but many aren't. What part of Triple Crown feeds is "filler?"

And going by their recommendations, I don't see how I'd be feeding less. Right now my 1,200 lb. TB is getting 6 lbs. of Fibregized. If I switched to Pure Performance, at 10 oz. per 100 lbs., that would be 7.5 lbs.

It looks like a very good line of feed, but I'm not yet convinced it's some fabulous revolutionary thing unless your horse is anhydrotic/allergic to beet pulp.

Anyone have an ingredient list?

[turningpointequine]

I did e-mail them asking for and ingredient list as well as if there were any dealers in my area. I got a response saying that there were unfortunately no dealers near me . . .and didn't get an ingredient list.

I'm only feeding 5 lbs/day of Triple Crown Senior anyway so guess I'll just stick with that as my guys look good on it.

I'm just the kind that's always interested in new/good feeds.

[BoyleHeightsKid]

I did e-mail them asking for and ingredient list as well as if there were any dealers in my area. I got a response saying that there were unfortunately no dealers near me . . .and didn't get an ingredient list.

I'm only feeding 5 lbs/day of Triple Crown Senior anyway so guess I'll just stick with that as my guys look good on it.

I'm just the kind that's always interested in new/good feeds.

At least you got a response... I didn't get one at all!

[mlb722]

I don't see how it's much different then feeding a ration balancer or even vit/mineral supplement along with chopped hay, which is what I give my easy keeper. Chopped hay is around $15 per bale and the vit/min is super cheap.

You can even get chopped hay without molasses--TC safe starch or lucerne farms Gold.

[Equibrit]

Similar feeds are available at my local TSc and from Triple Crown in my feed store.

http://www.triplecrownfeed.com/forag...orsefeedbrands

http://lucernefarms.com/feeds_forage.shtml

[Iride]

Bumping to ask for updates from anyone using (or who has used) this feed, or found out more about it?

[skyy]

We've been feeding it for about 3 months now and I have to say, after some initial reservations, I am impressed. Everyone in the barn gets the hunter version and some horses get additional oats and/or alfalfa pellets depending on their weight and work load. I never used to believe that the type of feed influenced dapples (assuming the horse was well fed to start) but we now have dapples on horses that have never had them in all the years that they've been at this barn. The wacky horses seem a little calmer on this feed as well.

[Calhoun]

Do you think this feed is made in the US, or the UK and shipped over?

[skyy]

It's made here or at least assembled here. I know that they ran out of one of the ingredients and we had to wait a day to get our order. As well, before we got our 2nd order they let us know that they had tweaked the ingredient ratios a little bit to increase something ( I can't remember what it was - yucca or something?)

[Iride]

Anyone have an ingredient list?

[Equilibrium]

You guys can get an ingredient list by googling The Pure Feed Company. They may not have the Hunter Mix but it will give you a good idea of what they use. I've talked to the owner of the company before and he's trying to come up with a soy free formula as well if anyone is interested. This feed trys to keep sugar and startch at minimal levels. It's why some horses go on hunger strike. I have used a sample and loved the food. Pricing per bag isn't that bad for what you feed. The freight from England to Ireland is what kills me. Then it is expensive per bag. I find here most don't give a crap what they feed horses as long as it's cheap. A lot of people on this side of the pond like feeding a "chaff" chopped forage product balanced out by other things which is why the chaff is in these bags.

Terri

[Iride]

I got in touch with a distributor who is dropping a bag off for me to try today. Excited! .... we'll see if Mr. Picky is too

(ps I wonder if this could be fed in addition to Triple Crown Senior...as a way to provide more grass forage calories)