Looking for a commercial feed product for a show horse. Some starch is ok.
I saw Triple Crown has one but I’m not thrilled with feeding a Purina product.
Horse is currently on a blend of oats, beet pulp, fat supplement and ration balancer but he’ll hardly touch it, even if we mix in some molasses.
I’m also concerned about contamination from mills that produce cattle feeds so ideally I’d like to find a feed company who only produces horse feed.
Add rice bran, timothy pellets/cubes? My gelding can’t have alfalfa and I just feed him timothy pellets/rice bran and some beet pulp (and supplements) but he keeps good weight with small amounts of each and all the grass hay he’ll eat.
The Legends Carbcare Show and Pleasure might work for you. It’s a Southern States product: https://www.southernstates.com/docs/salessheets/55394011.pdf
I feed the Performance (which does have alfalfa, so a no go for you) and like it quite a lot. Quality seems great. Horses like it. Prior to going with the Performance, I tried the Show and Pleasure, and had the same to report 
Rice bran is very palatable, judging by the horses I know and you can get it either pelleted or powdered. We have a couple on it as a fat source and a couple that just get a handful to mask the less palatable supplements.
I am using the Triple Crown Natural feed but mine isn’t milled by Purina but by OH Kruse, who does now have a strictly equine facility in CA
I had a horse who was terribly sensitive to alfalfa. Even feeding a single treat a day was enough to send him into a total tailspin. I fed him one of the LMF grains (sorry - can’t remember which!), but also FYI that most supplements (including, as I found out with this guy, SmartCalm) use an alfalfa meal base, as do most treats. So he went onto only Platinum Performance on his LMF (Showtime or Super Supplement maybe?) and only Mrs. Pasture’s cookies for treats. I was amazed by how many things used alfalfa meal once I started looking into it!
Thanks, everyone. There seems to be alfalfa in EVERYTHING!
I found a Blue Seal product with no alfalfa but when I looked at what WAS in it, it was some pretty low quality nutrition.
He’s not the best hay eater, he can be really picky and the vet has asked us to move him from straight Orchard hay to straight timothy. The problem is, he really doesn’t like timothy. He ate the orchard much better. He’s got a high work load and it’s becoming a bit of a challenge to keep enough calories in him. I think I’ll take the advice on the timothy pellets and see if his highness approves of timothy in his bucket.
My horse is allergic to alfalfa and rice bran (and carrots and apples). He gets timothy hay for his forage, supplemented with oat hay pellets. I mix his supplements (HorseTech, bc as has already been noted, most everything has alfalfa, especially the handy pelleted supplements) with O&M.
He is also allergic to wheat. So pretty much any commercial treats are a no-go. I make them using oat flour and oats or buy the bags of 500 peppermints at Smart and Final.
Triple Crown is not a Purina product.
TC products are not Purina products
I’m also concerned about contamination from mills that produce cattle feeds so ideally I’d like to find a feed company who only produces horse feed.
Then you’re in luck, as TC products are milled in Purina mills, and those are ionophore-free.
which product?
He’s not the best hay eater, he can be really picky and the vet has asked us to move him from straight Orchard hay to straight timothy. The problem is, he really doesn’t like timothy. He ate the orchard much better. He’s got a high work load and it’s becoming a bit of a challenge to keep enough calories in him. I think I’ll take the advice on the timothy pellets and see if his highness approves of timothy in his bucket.
Why did the vet tell you to move from OG to Timothy? IME, Timothy is harder to produce to horses’ satisfaction than OG. Good OG is a very nice hay, and any OG a horse eats well is better than the best Timothy a horse won’t eat, especially a harder keeper.
The horse tested very allergic to orchard and alfalfa in his latest skin test.
Triple Crown is NOT a Purina product just like it’s not a Blue Seal product either. Triple Crown is a privately owned company and maintains their own formulas.
