Purina Strategy Healthy Edge or Wellsolve LS?

[alterblue]

Which would you feed if you had the choice? Recently moved barns and these are the two options I have to choose from.

Mare is currently on Nutrena Safe Choice Special Care and doing well. She’s not getting much right now (3 qts/day) since she was out of work due to an injury, but will be going back into work soon.

Mare is 20, a relatively easy keeper, and I prefer to keep her on something lower in sugars/starches because she can be a little hot. I think there is a senior feed too but I don’t think that’s what I want since she would not be getting a “full serving” most likely. She has no dental issues and gets good hay 4x a day.

Thoughts? Neither one is my favorite but providing my own isn’t an option so I need to choose one of these once she runs out of the Safe Choice.

Thanks in advance!

[Gainer]

My retired senior guys (two with Cushings) are doing well on Strategy Healthy Edge and they seem to like it a lot. Once the two were started on Prascend, the Healthy Edge was the only grain they would eat.

[clanter]

Thoughts? Neither one is my favorite

your mare is one that will have to eat it

can you try both, then chose the one she will eat ?

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@clanter

your mare is one that will have to eat it

can you try both, then chose the one she will eat ?

Yes, but considering that she has never met a grain she doesn’t like, I don’t think this will make the decision for me.

Luckily she is not picky, so I have the option of choosing whichever one is better quality-wise for her.

[WNT]

Wellsolve L/S has an NSC of 11% https://www.purinamills.com/purinami…).pdf?ext=.pdf

Strategy Healthy Edge NSC 16.5% https://www.purinamills.com/2.purina…t.pdf?ext=.pdf

SafeChoice Special Care NSC 15%
https://www.nutrenaworld.com/product…nalysis-anchor

Where NSC is the combined starches and sugars listed on the guaranteed analysis. If you want to go as low as possible on NSC, looks like Wellsolve L/S wins out. If she’s a really easy keeper, maybe see if they offer Purina Enrich Plus, it’s their ration balancer.