Purina Impact

[enjoytheride]

I spoke with a Purina dealer who suggested 3 different Purina feeds based on my needs. I 9have three easier keepers, one who can be quite hot (although lower sugars and starch don’t seem to make a difference) and 1 moose who is an average keeper for his size. They get pasture and plenty of hay.

I’m looking at Purina Strategy

https://www.purinamills.com/2.purina…t.pdf?ext=.pdf

Purina impact performance
https://www.purinamills.com/2.purina…t.pdf?ext=.pdf

,and Purina impact all stages 14/6.

https://www.purinamills.com/horse-fe…ted-horse-feed

Suggestions of the 3?

[Lieslot]

How about Purina Equine Adult, which is nothing more than Purina Hay stretcher with some vits/mins added.
I can’t see that making any horse hot or fat.

[JB]

Define “easy keeper”. To me, that’s a horse who needs nothing more than a ration balancer, definitely not 4-6lb of a regular feed. But to you, “easy keeper” may be one who needs “only” 6lb of feed, not 12 :lol:

I don’t like any of those feeds. The Impact feeds are all “least cost” formulas, which means the major ingredients are generic “products” - grain products, forage products, roughage products. The Strategy line uses corn and rice hulls.

What is their current diet, and weight on that diet?

[enjoytheride]

Well, Purina is available to me and those three are what he suggested for fall/winter and then switching the 3 easy keepers to a ration balancer for summer. They dropped more weight than I wanted on ration balancer last winter. 3 are under 15 hands. One is over 17.

The Impact Pro Performance is almost the same price as Strategy so I’m interested if it’s “better.”

[Amchara]

Could you feed their ration balancer and albers special 6? We have that available over here but not sure if its available over there. Would add some extra safe calories on top of the enrich

[enjoytheride]

That is not available here

[JB]

The Purina ration balancer (Enrich) and Ultium would be better choices than the 3 products listed, even though Ultium does have some corn in it, at least you know what all the ingredients actually are.

[jonem004]

What kind of hay are you feeding over the winter?

[enjoytheride]

@JB

The Purina ration balancer (Enrich) and Ultium would be better choices than the 3 products listed, even though Ultium does have some corn in it, at least you know what all the ingredients actually are.

The dealer did not recommend the Ultium at all, I did ask about it.

[enjoytheride]

@jonem004

What kind of hay are you feeding over the winter?

I feed hay appropriately and add alfalfa pellets to my big horse.

[jonem004]

@enjoytheride

I feed hay appropriately and add alfalfa pellets to my big horse.

I ask because what kind/how much/ how often/nutritional content etc… all have an impact on what concentrate would be best.
There’s no good answer without the whole picture. It’s also good to know if you’ve tested your hay and what nutritional gaps might want filled.

[JB]

@enjoytheride

The dealer did not recommend the Ultium at all, I did ask about it.

What is it about those 3 products that made the dealer recommend them, and not, say, Strategy Healthy Edge, or Purina Equine Adult, or Ultium?

[enjoytheride]

He said that Healthy Edge is good for horses with specific feed issues, but to get to that point they had to take a lot out, which they compensated by adding the Amplify. However, he said you still have to feed more of it per lb and for a horse without specific issues it’s not efficient especially for my 17 hand horse.

Ultium he felt would be too high octane for the perfomance levels I described to him and is very pricey, and one of my horses can be hot so he did not like it at all for her.

The Purina Equine Adult wasn’t suggested at all, although he did suggest Enrich plus in the summer for the 3 smaller horses.

He said the Impact Pro Performance was corn free, low sugar, controlled starch,and had the gastric supplement in it. I expected it to be pricey but it’s actually only 30 cents a bag more than Strategy.

[JB]

If you’re ok with generic ingredients, such as processed grain by-products, forage products, roughage products, molasses products, plant protein products, etc, then all you can do is give it a try.

[enjoytheride]

LOL, thanks.

[findthedistance]

I tried Impact Pro Performance on a couple of my “medium keepers” last fall. (Eating 3-5 # of grain daily plus free-choice forage, don’t maintain on just ration balancer.) Two were coming off Legends CarbCare Performance, one had been on Triple Crown Senior.

Horse #1, who had been on TC Senior, got sketchy metabolic-looking within weeks, and I fled back to the TC Senior ASAP. There were some complicating factors, so I can’t say for sure it was the feed, but the timing was suspicious.
Horse #2, recent arrival to me, seemed to do equally well on either feed. A year later, she has joined the easy keeper ration balancer-and-muzzle crew. I think she benefited most from good quality forage, which she did not have at her previous barn (according to owner).
Horse #3, history of doing MUCH better on Legends CC Performance than TC Senior for reasons I do not understand, did not do quite as well on Impact Pro as Legends, but the difference was subtle.

I also trialed a few horses on Ultium, and that was a big success. They look better on less feed, and while we joke about the rocket fuel, we saw no change in personality or energy levels. I’d definitely take a second look at that for your harder keepers.