Anyone use Keyflow Sensi-care? Pros and Cons. Likes and Dislikes?
Feeding a picky, allergy prone PPID and IR 27 year old welsh pony with a few missing teeth from EOTHR and founder HX. I received a sample of the Sensi-care and he seems to love it. I was hoping it was a complete feed but according to the label his serving would be about 2lbs a day which still leaves me with doling out chopped hay, timothy pellets, and regular hay.
He currently eats 2lbs tim pellets, 3lbs Chopped hay and the rest is made up in fine 2nd cut for 10lbs total (he weighs about 490). Vit E and a multivit.
Would it be worth replacing some of his hay with the Sensi-care? I really don’t need to change his routine but I’d very much like to have the option of something else to feed him if he has one of his picky spells (which he’s had for years and appear to be “just him being himself”)
I will add most commercial feeds with additives give him hives so that is a concern and why he’s not on a complete feed.
Thanks.
He’s 27, if he eats it let him have it.
By that age they have earned it. At least that what I tell my 21 year old pony when he goes on a hunger strike due to meds.
Good point! I get so wrapped up in the “Metabolic” rat race sometimes that I forget at 27 he might as well have a little something extra that he likes. And it is fairly low NSC. He’s quite a character, he was out challenging the deer two days ago, doing his wild stallion interpretation and putting on a show. Then the battery wore out and he had a long nap 
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Sensi Care is a complete feed! The feed rate (for horses) is 4-8lb/day. That being said, there is also One Scoop, which is a hybrid balancer/museli. The feed rate is lower, 2.75-3.3lb/day.
If you’re looking for something that is a forage replacer, Pink Mash (or Pink Mash Condition), would be great options!
Thanks! I wasn’t sure if it was a complete feed. If that’s the case, he’d probably only get about 4 lbs at the most and he’d go crazy on that little amount. Pink mash is out unfortunately as he doesn’t tolerate a lot of beet pulp. He’s difficult to feed. Sensitivities and allergies.
Pink Mash is made with beet root and is different from Beet Pulp! Beet pulp is a byproduct of the sugar industry and made from sugar beets. Pink Mash uses Beet Root, the red/pink vegetable!
Sensi Care is not a complete feed, according to the manufacturer’s website. A complete feed is one that is designed to be fed as the horse’s entire diet, replacing hay/pasture, if necessary.
OP, at that age, my vote as a nutritionist is to feed him whatever he will eat. 
Sensi Care is a complete feed, as it contains the vitamins and minerals essential to a horse’s diet. We would not advocate for replacing hay and/or pasture with a grain as forage is a critical part of a horse’s diet. In horses who have trouble chewing or who do not have suitable access to forage, Pink Mash and Pink Mash Condition can be used as partial forage replacers. However, they are not fortified, and should be fed alongside a concentrate, balancer, or vitamin/mineral supplement.
All the Keyflow concentrates (and most other brands as well) are designed to be fed alongside adequate hay/forage
As you are using “we” in your post, I assume you work for Keyflow?
A complete feed is defined as one that can be fed as the horse’s sole ration. That is what makes it “complete”.
Any feed that must be fed alongside forage (most commercial concentrates) is not a complete feed by definition.
So I am confused. To me a complete feed replaces both hay and “grain” or a ration balancer and would be the only feed the horse, or in this case, pony would require. Is Sensi Care to be fed with the usual amount of forage?
Aren’t beets and beetroots from the same plant?
I am wondering if the definition of “complete feed” varies between USA and Great Britain vernacular.
What @adultammylife is describing would be called a “fortified” feed here in the USA. A complete feed is something different.
Sugar beet is a different type of beet from red beets. They are each subspecies beta vulgaris, where sugar beets are var. saccharifera. Beetroot does generally seem to contain less sugar than sugar beet cultivars. Red beets are also apparently high in antioxidants and nitrates.
There seems to be a lot of long-standing confusion in the horse world between the definition of a complete feed and a fortified feed. I try to be very precise only referring to a complete feed as one that can be fed to replace part or all of a horse’s forage ration as well as supplying necessary nutrients. These are very useful for horses with poor dentition, digestive limitations, or during hay shortages.
A fortified feed is one that contains nutrients to supplement those present in forage (fed as the backbone of the ration) with additional calories (from grain and/grain co-products, soluble fiber, and fats) as needed to meet the horse’s needs above and beyond what forage can supply. These feeds come with a feeding rate that supplies the nutrients to meet the National Research Council’s definitions for horses of different sizes, ages, and workloads.
Thanks for sorting out the beet differences.
It caught me out as well when Pink Mash came out. Looking at the ingredients it was soybean hulls, dried beetroot, micronized flaxseed, and a pre-/probiotic package. I thought it was just regular sugar beet, then I went down a bit of a rabbit hole when I realized looking at other Keyflow feeds that some have beet shreds listed separately from the beetroot, indicating they are separate ingredients.
I must admit the kibbled/micronized/extruded (?) beetroot nugget that is in some of the feeds is kind of tasty.
Do your horses like the pink mash? I did give the old boy a teeny amount this evening to see if he’d be ok with it (he loves to get hives) and he was very unsure of it. He did eat it, but I got the side eye the entire time.
I have not used it for a personal horse (don’t have one), but the feed store I work in stocks it. It has become quite popular so someone’s horses are eating it, lol. I do get positive feedback, but as with most feeds, your mileage may vary.
Some horses love it immediately and some take a few tries to warm up to it. Owners have had good luck mixing it with a handful of Sensi Care at the beginning. Generally though, it has been very palatable and even pickier horses have taken to it.
I’ve tried pink mash for a few horses, none of them picky usually. All immediately turned up their noses! Offered it up to others on the yard to use and they found the same.
Different bags, different years so not a bad batch. Shame as I like the idea and use other Keyflow feeds.
Just an update on the old boy’s diet. I tried the Pink Mash once more and he took a bite and that was it. I also tried a sample of the Keyflow Golden Oldies and he wouldn’t go near the bucket and wouldn’t eat out of the bucket until it was scrubbed clean (he has his opinions!) and aired out. The Sensi-Care he is enjoying at 1/2 lb twice a day mixed with his timothy pellets and he looks forward to it. I will try getting him up to recommended 2 lbs (per bag instructions) and adjusting the rest of his diet to accommodate if he continues to like it.
My minis liked the pink mash, but they also turned up their noses at the Golden Oldies.
