Read both good (mostly) and also bad do to the soy content. Any opinions would be welcome!!
I feed Tribute. The Essential K GC (ration balancer) and the Seniority Textured (have fed the Kalm Ultra and Kalm Performer in the past). I have been feeding Tribute now for about 12 years. I have had great success and no issues with it at all. My horses all look wonderful, in great weight, with shiny coats and strong hooves. Very happy with it.
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I fed it and loved it. The only reason I don’t now is that there is no longer a reliable distributor in my area. I fed the Kalm N EZ GC Plus to three very different horses and all did great on it. I also used K Finish for one who needed a little extra. AS for soy…many horses do fine on a feed with soy in it. Probably most. Like people, some can have a sensitivity to it, and in that case, you want to find other options!
IME, it’s about how a feed works for YOUR horse. If he’s happy and healthy on it and enjoys it, then it’s a good feed for your horse. The same feed might not be the best option for the horse in the next stall. That doesn’t mean it’s a bad feed, or that whatever that horse eats would be best for your horse. I don’t put much stock in reviews that write off a feed because of one ingredient. It’s the entire nutritional profile that matters. Some horses are sensitive to some ingredients…that doesn’t make a feed “bad”…just like it’s not “good” for the horse who needs something else.
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I used to feed the Kalm N EZ pelleted. Love it, but moved and it’s far more expensive in my new location and I switched to something more affordable.
The vast majority of equine feeds, whether regular or senior or growth or complete or balancers, contain soy. Tribute is not at all in a minority.
Most horses are perfectly fine consuming the amount of soy in their hard feed. A small % have a problem with soy meal but not the hulls (due to phytoestrogen % differences), or any soy at all.
As a whole, Tribute feeds are in the higher quality category. Just like all higher quality feeds I know of, there are some specific feeds I wouldn’t use, and many I wouldn’t hesitate to use for the right situation.
There is no “Tribute feed”. There is Tribute the brand, and within that, there are many feeds.
So the question back to you is - what specific feed are you looking at, and what are the horse’s stats? Not all of any brand’s feed are suitable for just any horse 
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I feed my easy keeper Essential K GC (their ration balancer) and she looks and feels fabulous on it.
JB, thank you for joining this thread. Horse stats - 13 yr old TB. Moved horse to new farm about 5 months ago. Head gelding ran him for over a month which resulted in lameness. Horse dropped weight. Had vet come out for his lameness and she said he was to thin and that he needed more calories to build muscle to better support his stifle. ,Heard dynamics are fine now and I am having a hard time getting the weight back on.
I am adding beat pulp and alfalfa cubes to his feed and he is getting Purina Impact Mature Active which is a 10/10 protein/fat ratio. He was getting TCS but he didn’t do well on that which struck me as odd because he always did.
oh, forgot to mention, I was looking at the Kalm EZ Tribute which is what their rep suggested.
I think that is a perfectly good place to start :yes:
And for the bonus round, Chewy carries it and since I get all my small animal stuff from them I can have that delivered to my door too!!! whoot whoot!
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It is MUCH more expensive on Chewy then it is in my co op. I have to drive out of my way to get it but I switched to it from Purina strategy (it’s cheaper than strategy and is supposed to be higher quality although I had no issues with strategy).
My elderly gelding with Cushings is on Kalm N EZ since it is low sugar/starch and higher in fat than their Seniority. He’s doing well on it, although he needs it soaked along with his hay pellets.
During the last summer he didn’t have much of an appetite so we switched him to Essential K and he was fine on that too. Couldn’t get him to eat enough of the EZ.
I feed Kalm Ultra to my 34 YO donkey and 25 YO gelding on vet recommendation for the donkey. Donkey was dropping weight bad even with 2x a day feeding of Stragedy Healthy Edge due to having no molars left. Vet recommended the Kalm Ultra and he gained weight fast. When soaked is breaks down to a mash very easily.
My 16 year old OTTB is on Kalm n EZ and has been for the last few months. He’s honestly looking the best he’s looked, he’s always been on the skinnier side, and even when “fat” (for him), his ribs were too visible. Didn’t matter what he was eating/fat supplements he had, he just wouldn’t put on weight. He’s looking very nice now though, he’s got a belly on him and is definitely happy. We soak it for him as he’s got colic issues.
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