Lucky’s owners are switching to Thomas Moore high fat feed (originally suggested TC Senior but it’s a 2 hour drive to get it). Has anyone fed Thomas Moore feeds? If so, were you happy with it?
http://www.thomasmoorefeed.com/
If you look at the website it’s a regional supplier with over a dozen options in three different lines of feed.
A lot will depend on if the horse is getting the right feed for his nutritional needs.
If you go to this website you can see the nutritional analyses. If those don’t make much sense to you, you can self educate. Julie Getty’s book Feed Your Horse like a Horse is a good start.
I’ve spoken with KER and Thomas Moore directly and both recommended the High Fat feed at 6lbs a day. I was just wondering if anyone had success with feeding it?
Well, it’s the only distributing in a part of Texas so you might want to ask around locally as well. Generally people report success feeding almost anything if they have healthy horses and almost nothing if horse has an underlying problem.
What do you want the feed to do? Why does the horse need feed?
He’s a hard keeper (when they rescued him, he was severely emaciated - he’s put a lot of weight on with alfalfa pellets, beet pulp, and a multivitamin). The owners don’t like having to soak the alfalfa and beet pulp so I’ve been researching high quality, guaranteed formulation feeds (not Purina, Nutrena, DuMor, etc.) and Thomas Moore and TC feeds have repeatedly come up.
He has heaves/IAD, ERU, and they’re trying to get him off of Dex because he has full body rainrot and skin infections due to the dex suppressing his immune system. I want to get him on a fixed formula feed that’s high quality before trying to see if there are any supplements that will help him stay away from steroids.
I’ve fed it and was happy with it. I’ve only moved away from it because my horses don’t really need feed and are now on a hay replacer.
I looked into TM when the new feed store in my town opened a year or so ago but I wasn’t overly impressed - seemed like lots of sugars and fillers. If you’re trying to get this horse off the beet pulp and alfalfa to make feeding easier, I’d look at a senior “complete feed” like Triple Crown Senior - my mare does great on it. I tried switching to Purina Senior for 3 months and she completely lost her personality spark. A few weeks after restarting TCS she was back to her former perky, shiny self.
For the rain rot, I swear by Vitamin A/E - when I acquired the above mare a few years ago she arrived covered head to tail in rain rot. Squirted 5cc/week of the $40/bottle of injectable cattle Vitamin A/E Tocopherals on her grain, and her skin cleared up without any other bathing or topical sprays, despite it being a rainy Nov/Dec in north Texas.
The problem with the TCS is that it’s a two hour drive to get it and that isn’t feasible for the owners at this time. They ended up getting Hallway Feed’s Fibrenergy for him. We’ll see how it works for him…
Did you get the NSC levels for the feeds? They aren’t posted on the website, but would be very useful for OP.
Also what kind of fillers? In another thread we were discussing how horse feed typically doesn’t have fillers and all the components like beet pulp, alfalfa meal, grain middlings, soy, soy hulls, bran, etc are doing a job nutritionally. Some of them might be industrial byproducts but they are useful ingredients. What did you see in TM that struck you as “filler” and why?
