Feed advice needed

[moukoyui]

To make a long story short getting my preferred feed has become more and more difficult to reliable get a hold of. The only feed store that carries it is 45+ mins each way. I usually try and buy 5 - 6 weeks worth at a time. I just opened the first bag of my last order and it is riddled with mold, and so were the next 4 bags I opened. I would love to find something carried more locally.

Right now I feed Blue Seal Sentinel Performance LS as my base feed. Both my horses get the same feed, but the reason I have been using this feed is that it has done such a good job with my TB. He is hard keeper with a sensitive tummy who is very picky about what he eats. In the past he has been on TC Senior, Pennfield Fibergized, and a long time ago Ultium. Those feeds gave me varying success, and he looks the best by far on his current ration. If I had the money I would switch to a Progressive Nutrition feed, but I just can’t pay $40+ a bag. I included his daily rations and my zipcode below. I would love feedback on any feeds that I can get in my area that would be close to the Sentinel.

He gets the following:
1.25 scoops of the Sentinel
1.5 cups of Progressive Nutrition Envision Classic
AM and PM
with 1/2 - 1 lbs (unsoaked weight) beetpulp with 1 cup corn oil for lunch

I live in area code 28173.

TIA to everyone who read through this mini novel.

[HenryisBlaisin]

I think you’re in my area based on the ZIP code. Blue Seal feeds are hard to get this far south. My super-picky TB did fantastic on Nutrena Pro Force Fiber. He was shiny and obviously felt good. It’s similar to TC Senior but my two seemed to like it better and did very well on it. It is a bit higher in NSC at 20%, so if there are metabolic issues, you might want to steer away.

Southern States also carries the Legends brand of feeds, and they have a new lower starch line that several horses at my barn do very well on as well. Ours are on the LS Performance and are energetic, shiny, and happy. They also have a new digestive supplement that has done wonders for one of ours in terms of her feeling great and looking fantastic.

The other feed I had great success on is Tribute. Their Kalm N EZ packed the weight on an underweight mare I had come in, it smells fantastic and all my horses who got it snarfed it down. I know others who had great success with their Kalm Ultra as well, and they have a wonderful extruded fat supplement as well that my horses thought was delish.