I am thinking about trying Progressive Nutrition Topline Enhance or Topline Extreme. Has anyone tried either.
My guy was nearly starved when I got him; he is at a good weight now for the most part. His topline is underdeveloped. He is getting worked properly. I am wondering if a little extra would help him. He is a very hardkeeper on top of it (which makes the process even slower). Thoughts?
My dressage instructor swears by Topline. She said that her horse, who was coming back from an injury and had lost a lot of his topline, developed his topline back within a couple of months.
She wants me to try it on my mare. As of yet, I have not tried it. If you do try it, please report?
I acquired a broodmare that had been near starvation earlier in her life. Loved her conformation, but she had no topline. I started her on Progressive feeds for different reasons, but the sales rep said it would help her topline. Whatever. I had given up hope of ever getting topline back on her. Well, I’ll be d**ned if she didn’t develop a crease down her back after 3 months on the feed! I’ve never tried the topline products, but at this point if they said they had a bridge for sale, I’d probably buy it. 
Another story, different horse: I rode sporadically with a well-known dressage instructor. It had been about 2 months since my last lesson, mainly because I had so little time to ride. The trainer said, wow, you must have really been riding a lot. She is really working well through her back and has muscled up nicely. Umm…no, but I did switch her to a new feed! I gave her the sales rep’s card after the lesson. I would say, give it a try. And please let us know the results.
What’s in it, and what makes it better than, say, Uckele’s Tri-Amino, especially for the cost?
I cannot find a list of ingredients. Most PN products do not list them. Alot of people swear by the company. I am trying to decide if I should give it a try. Uckele’s Tri-Amino may be a second option.
Anyone else?
I kind find anything that would make it worth the price, although it is a 15lb container compared to Tri-Amino being 1-2lbs.
It may be 15lb, but if your horse is more than 1200lb, you’re looking at 3-4 scoops a day.
A scoop is 4oz.
4 scoops at 4oz is 16 oz is 1lb. That’s 15 days :eek:
Tri-Amino for 1 horses lasts a good bit more than that. A 2lb container is 53 scoops, which is 10gm lysine, which is all most horses need.
It is a very big difference. Does anyone have a clue what the difference is in the two? I an going to order one or the other in the next few days and I would love some insight!
HUGE fan of Tri Amino.
I looked at the PN but the price scared me. Tri Amino does a great job for less money.
That made my decision.
Well, I’ve been using the TA for a while now and have seen positive changes. There is nothing about the PN product, as it stands, that would make me buy it.
It would have to have some sooper dooper ingredients in it to make me want to even try it.
I just began using Tri-Amino on two of my horses a few weeks ago. They aren’t even on the full dose yet because they hate the taste and I’ve had to gradually build up the dose. And then, for various reasons, these horses have not been worked even one day since I’ve had them on it (wasn’t the plan, just haven’t had the opportunity to work them). For what it’s worth, I had a gelding with a horrendous grass belly. And no joke, since I’ve had him on his little half dose for 2-3 weeks, the belly is lifting and the back is pulling up. I took a ton of pics before I started it just to see if I could note a difference. I wouldn’t even need pics to see the difference in this particular horse:eek: Can’t wait to get him on the full dose and actually work with him. Color me impressed. After he’s been on it for a bit, I’ll post before and after pics.
After seeing this thread, I asked our Progressive sales rep about it, since we’ve been so pleased with the Progressive line for all of our horses: youngsters, performance horses and broodmares. He did specify that it wasn’t meant to be used as a fat supplement for weight, it was specifically a protein supplement for muscle building. We will start incorporating this into our performance horses’ diets when our next delivery is made. We are a big fan of Progressive, its just so easy to feed!
Noone else?
Would you be so kind as to post the ingredient list and whatever analysis is on the label? 
The analysis is on the link provided above. It is 80% protein! Can’t recall the rest off the top of my head.
Crude Protein 50%
Lysine 4%
Methionine 1.4%
Crude fat 2%
Crude fiber 3%
This is all it lists!
Yeah, and that’s not very helpful.
What that tells me is that in 1lb of it (if you have a larger horse and are feeding 4 4oz scoops) gives you:
lysine: 18gm
methionine: 6.35gm
fat: 9gm
So, back to the cost breakdown. Tri-Amino is 53 scoops. Let’s say you pay full price at $17.95 with, I think, $7-ish shipping - $24.95 so we’ll use $25. That’s $.47 per scoop, which is 10gm lysine and 5gm methionine.
The Progressive product is rounded) $45 for the 15lb bucket, which we already determined was, at the above level, 15 days. That’s $3/scoop.
You can double the Tri-Amino to get 20gm lysine and 10gm methionine (more than the PN product) and still be less than $1 (unless the shipping is way more than $7, but you can figure that out).
So, your choice I bet you can add a fat supplement for less than $2/day
^Thanks! So unless the PN has some mystery super-ingredient Tri-Amino will be my choice!
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Would you be so kind as to post the ingredient list and whatever analysis is on the label? :)[/QUOTE]
I can give you the ingredients once it arrives, at the moment I only have the Benefat supplement.
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