I feed my personal horses Buckeye Nutrition, but I currently am in charge of another horse (not mine, however) who gets Nutrena’s senior grain. I saw on another forum that someone said they would NEVER feed Nutrena or Purina. I asked why, but they never got back to me. Anyone else have any ideas?
Because Nutrena and Purina have two main factors going against them: 1- no set formulas; 2- horse and other animal feeds are produced in the same plants. The opportunity for cross-contamination (especially Monensin Poisoning) is very high. If you do a Google search on Monensin Poisoning in Florida recently, you’ll understand why.
KNOW how your horse’s feed is produced.
I wondered if it was the whole monensin poisoning thing…that’s why I feed Buckeye. They have a 100% med free facility. I didn’t know Nutrena and Purina didn’t have set formulas. Thanks for the info!
There are some Purina horse products that are produced in horse only mills.
I have found Nutrena producers in my area to be quite careless. Unacceptable
feed was bagged and delivered too often.
Buckeye feed is not available here.
How do you keep up with how/where your feed is produced?
Because I read these threads and think, “how do I find out for myself what’s going on with my feed?”
I feed TC Sr., and my understanding is it’s pretty tightly managed, but still.
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By law, all bagged feed must be tagged. Part of the information on that tag is where the feed is milled. If you can not interpret the information, as sometimes it is abbreviated and coded, the feed dealer should be able to decode it for you.
For those of you who are claiming manufacturers are “quite careless” and killing horses left and right, can you please cite specifics?
What cutter99 said - your tags should be able to tell you. I feed Buckeye Nutrition, and on their website, their pamphlets, etc, they state that they have 100% med free facilities. I honestly do not know more than two different brands that do. There may of course be more, but I’m not aware of them.
Hence why those of us in the south feed the fine products from Seminole. 100% equine feed.
Seminole is a fabulous feed! I am so happy they have a distributor in VA and that it’s not too far away to pick up feed.
If you live near a distributor, i encourage you to give it a try.
