Hi there! Can someone tell me why Barn Bag is not as popular as Vermont Blend, HorseTech, etc. Thank you.
Is there a reason you keep creating new threads when you don’t get answers to your first (or second) one? Just curious - why not just bump up the first one?
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I thought maybe no one saw it and just figured out I could create a thread in the actual new thread category. Nothing nefarious…,just learning.
Maybe the moderators could combine them.
With the current COTH format I see everything in all categories as it pops up new. If it gets bumped up I see it in latest.
If no one responded they likely don’t have anything to say. I’m in Canada and have never seen this product. We do get Farriers Formula from the same company but the levels of the key ingredients are significantly lower than in my all around Mad Barn Omniety.
If you want to compare VMS then print out the nutrition labels for each and do up a rough table comparing the key nutrients that concern you. Then get the cost per serving.
You want the most nutrients with the lowest cost per serving 
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Probably because not many have heard of it. It is expensive as well.
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I remember when it first came out. It was $69 a bag - for feed. A bag of ration balancer was $18 a bag at the time. Now I don’t know how it compares portion wise to a ration balancer, but I couldn’t determine what magical properties were in the bag for it to cost so much. Maybe you just fed a tablespoon full at each feeding? I had a friend that fed it or was going to feed it but she always equated high price = better. I wasn’t sure this was true and that is probably why not many people feed it.
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Thanks for this. I never saw it pop up in “new”, which is why I reposted.
And thank you for the information, as well. I appreciate everyone’s input. I talked to the people who developed it (friends w my farrier) and they are so enthusiastic… I just wondered what others thought. Thank you, all.
That is likely because it is not new to you, because you had read it.
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Ummmm…duh! Thank you​:grinning:
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85gm serving for an average 500kg horse, vs 454gm serving for a ration balancer. But still, the cost/serving is significantly larger, for a low lower amounts of pretty much everything.
I’d hope anyone who develops a product is enthusiastic about it! You’d have to get to details and ask they WHY this is better than a ration balancer, or better than Grand Vite or Acel or one of Smart Pack’s v/m supplements.
SP sells Barn Bag, I think, so it would likely be in their lineup of the v/m comparison chart
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yep, it’s there, and you can choose any number of other supps (including the 2 I just pulled out of the hat) to see what’s what
Horse Multi-Vitamins Supplement Comparisons - by SmartPak (smartpakequine.com)
And then, it’s a matter of knowing which nutrients REALLY matter, either in general, or to you specifically. I ignore B-vitamin and Vit C amounts because most horses make their own very well.
And if one product has (for example) 100mg magnesium, another has 800mg, it may seem like that is in favor of the 800mg product, but when you’re talking about context of an average horse needing around 10gm (10,000mg), neither one are offering anything significant.
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Maybe it’s just really new or not widely distributed yet. There are many similar VMS and folks tend to select on value and availability. You could evaluate it against what you normally use.
I like Pete Rameys advice on nutrition for hoof health which led me to Madbarn Omneity Premix which is the best option in the Canadian market. I compared it to everything in my market but not motivated to crunch numbers on something that’s not for sale here.
Edited to add: @JB confirms my guess that anything out of the Farriers Formula brand is likely low on nutrients.
Barn Bag has actually been around quite a while, though I couldn’t say exactly how long. I’m fairly certain at least 10 years.
Life Data Labs tends to make things that could be just the bump some horses need, nothing enough to really cause harm if they don’t need it. But if you’re looking for higher amounts of specific nutrients, they aren’t it.
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