I’ve been feeding my hard keeper rice bran but I’ve been encouraged to switch to Renew Gold, which appears to also be rice bran with some additives. Do the additives make a difference?
There’s no validated health benefits of coconut meal, other than calories. RG has flax as well. Some people swear the coconut meal makes a difference. Maybe it does for some. Me, I would always choose plain rice bran and add flax - cheaper.
Renew Gold all the way, for me.
I used to feed Max-E-Glo, and also tried Nutrena Empower Boost, but switched to RG and saw a noticeable difference with my horses. Thought I was getting pretty good results with Max-E-Glo, until I tried Renew Gold!
All rice bran is not created equal is what I learned from consulting an animal nutritionist. I personally don’t want to keep multiple ingredients on hand to mix my own – I’d rather purchase something already designed for my needs, and I don’t have a lot of extra storage space.
It’s worth the cost to me, as it’s simple and works. Considering how little needs to be fed, it’s not that expensive.
The cost is why I went with their regular rice bran, not buying into the hype, but I’m still struggling with his weight so I went ahead and switched to see how it goes.
Hope it works well for you. You may already know this, but the Renew Gold recommendation is to feed a small amount of alfalfa pellets daily, along with the RG (doesn’t have to be in the same meal).
Tractor Supply has a sale on RG once in a while, but they did raise the price $5 a while back, unfortunately.
If the issue is the high phosphorous of the rice bran, they’ve added calcium to balance that.
The ca/phos ratio is 1.2-1.46:1 which is fine
If you mean this on their site:
“If grass hays or pasture are the primary sources of roughage, depending on the quality of that grass, an additional source of alfalfa cubes or long hay (several pounds morning and night) may enhance roughage digestion.”
Then I don’t know what that means, it doesn’t make sense. RG has nothing to do with quality of forage or its digestion.
