Hi All! Is there a reason Barn Bag isn’t more popular/recommended on this board? Thanks, NH
There might be other reasons as well…but it is more expensive per day than California Trace, Vermont Blend, SmartPak’s multivitamin, and most Ration Balancers.
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Thank you!
An 85gm serving provides only 35mg copper - almost every forage and ration balancer provide more than that.
85gm provides 1.7gm lysine and less than 1gm magnesium - why bother? You can use many other forage balancers with more trace minerals and either the same, or less than, or a lot more lysine/magnesium, and for sure ration balancers will provide more (9/10gm on average)
those are just 2 examples, but you get the idea.
Smart Pack has the 11lb bag for $1.25/serving, which is the 85gm serving size most 1000-1100lb horse would be getting
Most ration balancers are in the $.60-.70/serving range (of 1lb, which is the min for a 1000-1100lb horse)
Vermont Blend is right about $1/serving, and has a lot more of the things more horses need more of - copper, zinc, magnesium, amino acids.
BB is like most every typical v/m supplement, providing a lot of things, but not a lot of any of them, but costs a lot more than many others of similar GA
Thank you.
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