Anyone know anything about these cubes? Fed them? It seems they’re a “cross” between a pellet and full sized hay cube. Vits and Mins. etc added in the cubes. Alfalfa and alfalfa/timothy cubes. I couldn’t find info on the timothy / alfalfa ratio.
40 lb bags of anything get on my nerves, but they don’t appear to be too much more expensive than the Standlee cubes. Interesting idea, too bad FeedXL is telling me it actually makes her more deficient in the minerals/vitamins my mare is deficient in. Guess I won’t be trying it, it’s not fortified with the things I need!
The technical analysis is available on their website.
http://www.forageglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Alfalfa-Timothy-Cubes.pdf
I agree - the 40 bags also get on my nerves. Thanks for finding the analysis of the cubes - I looked but couldn’t find it days ago. I’m always interested in new forage-in-a- bag options. Where I board they supply the hay and I buy my horse’s bucket feed. There is no grass in turnout. I think he gets only a flake am/pm of coastal Bermuda. Not nearly enough and nothing I can do about it. Hence my feeding bagged forage - ie Standlee A/T pellets and beet pulp. Horse folks who move to Texas are surprised at what grass hay costs here and how the norm seems to be two flakes a day per horse. Boarders who want to feed more hay typically store it in their horse trailers. I’ve done that before, but I no longer have a trailer. Or storage space for hay.
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Two flakes a day! Wow, poor pones!
I had a similar problem at boarding barns in Ohio, they’d all only feed two or four flakes of hay per day. Not enough! Which, in Ohio is just plain ridiculous, considering grass hay (Orchard and/or Timothy) is $4/bale (small, 2-string, 50 lbs) and $5/bale for alfalfa. Sooooooo cheap. I now live in Florida where the hay prices are exorbitant ($18+ for same small bale) because it’s all shipped in. Even local Bermuda/coastal is $8+/bale for some reason (because they can, probably). Interestingly, a LOT of people here seem to feed free-choice hay, at least that I’ve noticed.
I don’t know if I’d want to feed something whose nutritional content has such a huge variation. Because the protein varies from 8-13% I’d guess the alfalfa % varies. Iron varies from almost nothing (how is that possible??) to over 1200ppm (not all that unheard of, unfortunately). NSC varies wildly too, so not something I’d feed if you 're dealing with metabolic issues.
IIRC Standlee produces a much more uniform product because they grow it and it’s all grown in a relatively small, homegenous area. I’d much rather use that, and then fortify with a super v/m, than deal with the large variations of this product.
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