Dynamite Marketing?

[WarDance]

Ok I’ll admit that I’m really bored tonight so I’m reading up on horse feed.

This boarder feeds this Dynamite feed at my barn and I was wondering if anyone else has experience? It’s like some kind of feeding program where you have to buy all of these products from them to get the full benefit. They don’t give you ingredients on their website but reading the bags of her feed don’t really strike me as “innovative” like they describe it on the website.

Their big thing in the program is these free choice minerals where you keep them in little containers in the stall and the horse chooses which ones it wants. Her horse doesn’t seem to touch them but I have seen him at the salt lick in the pasture during the day. I won’t tell the owner that because she thinks these free choice minerals are amazing!

The lady’s horse doesn’t look any better than the others that mostly eat Triple Crown feeds or Purina Ultium. It seems like I would have heard about this feeding program before now if it was that great.

Here’s their website:
https://www.dynamitemarketing.com/specialty_products_equine.asp

Am I crazy for thinking this lady’s being fed a load of BS? Her grain (which is literally just oats, corn and barley) is $50 for 1 50 pound bag if you factor in shipping!

[D_Taylor]

No if someone there is crazy it is not you. I did not see anything special on the site.

It is a free country. Your boarder can believe what she wants and feed what she wants. As long as the horse is healthy and the board bill paid on time who cares?

[Alagirl]

I suppose thee is a reason they call it ‘marketing’ not feeding?

[JB]

There are kooks in every area of products. Yes, there are even TC kooks

I have been a Dynamite distributor for about 13 years now. 12? Something like that :lol:

I DID feed their grain for a while - my horse did very well on it, I fed half the amount that he’d been getting of another feed, partly due to having about 1700 cal/lb

Is it a magic feed? No. But there hasn’t been a single feed recall due to contaminated ingredients, unlike many others, including some supposedly high quality feeds. There’s something to be said about, something that attracts people to a company that mills their own feed in a plant that doesn’t also do cattle feed, that doesn’t use chemical pesticides. Don’t like it? Fine, no reason you have to

And neither is it “literally just oats, corn and barley” - it is NOT a COB product. It does have those as the first 3 ingredients, but there is more to it than that

I also have the free choice minerals out. Salt, and the others. They eat the salt every day. They don’t eat the Izmine, ever, so I don’t bother to refill that bucket. They DO eat the 1:1 and 2:1 at certain times of the year. The 1:1 gets eaten when there’s lots of clover in the pasture; the 2:1 after the clover is gone. Just for a few weeks, then nothing until the next year. Every year. It’s pretty interesting.

Do you HAVE to use all those? Absolutely not.

I find it pretty sad actually that people have to rag on others for doing something you don’t think worthwhile, ESPECIALLY when it’s not harming them or you or anyone’s horses. I would never pay $100 for jeans (much less the HIGHER price some people pay!) - it’s just denim for Pete’s sake! - but I don’t go around putting people down as being loopy for doing so. Their money, their choice, have at it.

If someone has questions about the products, I’d be happy to talk to you about them. I have used probably most of them at one point just to try. Many of them I no longer use. Some of them I find much too $$ for what they are especially at this stage of the game given how much better quality feedstuffs there are out there now - that wasn’t always the case. Some of them I am never without. I have talked people out of buying this or that because they think they have to do it all or nothing - not true. If you speak to someone high enough up in the company, they will actually tell you not to do everything at once. The free choices are ideally one of the things you put out all together to let the horse choose (and these aren’t magical things that every horse will know how to deal with, like copper or magnesium, or whatever, it’s salt, calcium, phosphorous, and silica, in a nutshell). But I rarely recommend people use all 4 to start - I make suggestions based on the hay/grass the horse gets.

[WarDance]

[QUOTE=D Taylor;6249488]
No if someone there is crazy it is not you. I did not see anything special on the site.

It is a free country. Your boarder can believe what she wants and feed what she wants. As long as the horse is healthy and the board bill paid on time who cares?[/QUOTE]

Oh I don’t care that she feeds it but I was just wondering if the stuff really was worth the extra money. It really does get annoying when she starts lecturing all the other boarders about how her feed is so superior to everything else and how we must hate our animals for feeding them things that are marketed by companies like Purina and Triple Crown.

[reay6790]

I use Dynamite plus vitamins and Dynamite vits on my horses. I also use easy boy and MSM. Great quality MSM.

I also use Tri-Mins on myself. During my first year of college I started having anxiety attacks when trying to sleep. Short of going to the doctor, a friend recommended these and I can not describe how wonderful this magnesium/calcium product is. They use chelated vitamins. Ever since using Tri-mins, I have used the vitamins for my horses.

[JB]

[QUOTE=WarDance;6249660]
Oh I don’t care that she feeds it but I was just wondering if the stuff really was worth the extra money. It really does get annoying when she starts lecturing all the other boarders about how her feed is so superior to everything else and how we must hate our animals for feeding them things that are marketed by companies like Purina and Triple Crown.[/QUOTE]

Trust me, especially as a distributor, I hate when people get all cultish like this too - really, really hurts the image :no:

But there are better ways to ask the questions you asked

[D_Taylor]

[QUOTE=WarDance;6249660]
Oh I don’t care that she feeds it but I was just wondering if the stuff really was worth the extra money. It really does get annoying when she starts lecturing all the other boarders about how her feed is so superior to everything else and how we must hate our animals for feeding them things that are marketed by companies like Purina and Triple Crown.[/QUOTE]

I feel your pain. Boarders like that never get that folks are coming out to enjoy time with their family and horse…not listen to their lecture on todays marketing for said product X.

Boarders like that can cost you hardworking, normal, sane boarders. Some seem to relish in creating a miserable environment for others with their annoying rantings and superior attitudes.

There is always that 30day termination of contract (at least I had it in my contract). Used it more than once around here when other/many boarders complained that the quality of time with their horse was frequently interrupted by the constant crapola of THE ONE. They rarely get it when they are politely told to leave others to their own biz and focus on your horse. They still do not get it when they get that 30 day notice. But the barn is soooo very much nicer when they are gone!

[WarDance]

[QUOTE=D Taylor;6250113]
I feel your pain. Boarders like that never get that folks are coming out to enjoy time with their family and horse…not listen to their lecture on todays marketing for said product X.

Boarders like that can cost you hardworking, normal, sane boarders. Some seem to relish in creating a miserable environment for others with their annoying rantings and superior attitudes.

There is always that 30day termination of contract (at least I had it in my contract). Used it more than once around here when other/many boarders complained that the quality of time with their horse was frequently interrupted by the constant crapola of THE ONE. They rarely get it when they are politely told to leave others to their own biz and focus on your horse. They still do not get it when they get that 30 day notice. But the barn is soooo very much nicer when they are gone![/QUOTE]

This boarder is actually on her final chance before being kicked out. She has been asked to leave every boarding facility in the county so I don’t know where her horse will go if she is asked to leave here. The BO should have made her leave a long time ago. She crosses the line over and over, gets reprimanded, calms down for a little while then does it again.

Her last offense just took the cake. She started to verbally attack me in the barn, I ignored her and went off to ride my horse. She then proceeded to send me rude FB messages about how Parelli is the only way to train a young horse and so on. It went on for days and I was finally told by the BO to say something really mean to her to shut her up. I did it, she got a warning by the BO.

The lady is known around the horse community for being off her rocker. She believes Dynamite is the ONLY thing you should feed your horse, horses should only wear rope halters, horses should wear bits but you shouldn’t have to use them (yeah she says the bit is just because you have to wear them at shows but you should be able to do literally everything with your legs), dogs should only eat raw foods, and vegan is the only way to go.

Yeah she’s nuts and divorced! So I got a bad taste in my mouth about this Dynamite stuff just because of her (and her odd feeding requests that I must adhere to when I’m working at the barn). I thought I would see what people think of it since this board seems to have some knowledgeable people. I think my original post just came out wrong because the thought of that woman makes me a little angry!

[JB]

Don’t let her affiliations (Dynamite, Parelli, whatever) put you off THEM. Let her actions speak only for herself

Again, I would be happy to talk to you about the products, even knowing you aren’t and probably never will be interested in buying any of them. I really do like most of them, and want people to like, or not like, them for what they are/aren’t, not because of some whackjob associated with them

[D_Taylor]

[QUOTE=WarDance;6250333]
This boarder is actually on her final chance before being kicked out. She has been asked to leave every boarding facility in the county so I don’t know where her horse will go if she is asked to leave here. The BO should have made her leave a long time ago. She crosses the line over and over, gets reprimanded, calms down for a little while then does it again.

Her last offense just took the cake. She started to verbally attack me in the barn, I ignored her and went off to ride my horse. She then proceeded to send me rude FB messages about how Parelli is the only way to train a young horse and so on. It went on for days and I was finally told by the BO to say something really mean to her to shut her up. I did it, she got a warning by the BO.

The lady is known around the horse community for being off her rocker. She believes Dynamite is the ONLY thing you should feed your horse, horses should only wear rope halters, horses should wear bits but you shouldn’t have to use them (yeah she says the bit is just because you have to wear them at shows but you should be able to do literally everything with your legs), dogs should only eat raw foods, and vegan is the only way to go.

Yeah she’s nuts and divorced! So I got a bad taste in my mouth about this Dynamite stuff just because of her (and her odd feeding requests that I must adhere to when I’m working at the barn). I thought I would see what people think of it since this board seems to have some knowledgeable people. I think my original post just came out wrong because the thought of that woman makes me a little angry![/QUOTE]

Yup she sounds like she needs some serious supplementing herself (in the form of prescription drugs).

The BO, I am sure, is not happy about the hassels she creates in the barn but if the problem persists and the BO does not deal with it there is always this little piece of paper called a restraining order. And all you have to prove is she is deliberately disturbing your peace (what going to the horse barn is all about). That would be pretty easy to prove with FB rants and witnessed face to face verbal attacks.

Life is too short with too few rewards to allow someone like her to ruin your horsie time. And such persons are one of reasons I had a 30 day termination of contract clause. Cuz no one single boarder was going to cause me to lose several good, honest, hard working boarders.

[TWH_Girl]

Resurrecting this thread because I am interested if there are more recent comments regarding using Dynamite. I am starting both my riding horses on regular Dynamite to fill in nutritional gaps. They are 5 and 15 and easy keepers. The price point is reasonable as I only use 1 oz per day for my two.

I am taking DM Plus and Tri Mins and I honestly have never felt better!! I have more energy and stamina and less anxiety and nervousness. Really good stuff IMO.