Re: RE: Re: Purina Complete Advantage

["Susan Garlinghouse" <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>]

> with Ralston Purina, the pet food manufacturer.  There is a bad ingredient
> in Complete Advantage that The Whole Horse Journal mentioned.  Something
> like "methionine" if I remember correctly.  But then again, I eat some
fast
> foods myself that I'm afraid to think of what's in it!

Oh, phooey.  Methionine is an essential amino acid.  You might be thinking
of ethoxyquin, a preservative added---there is a huge amount of uproar over
"artificial preservatives" added to feed in miniscule amounts, but believe
me, any undocumented and hysterical claims about it in horse feed is nothing
compared to the hundreds of horses that would be colicking and foundering
due to moldy feed if it weren't in there.  I'm not getting bitchy here, but
look at the big picture, people, and don't get sucked in by the Terrorist
Nutritionists.


> soaking beet pulp.  Much easier than learning Spanish to explain exactly
how
> I want of each to be fed.  I also do not like the idea of feeding complete
> feed pellets for roughage which it sounds like you are doing with the
Manna
> Pro. Rather have them on hay and then supplement with a manufactured
product
> for convenience when in heavy training.  Then the 10% protein in the feed
is
> not 10% of overall diet.

Exactly. :-)))

> shredded beet pulp last week, for the first time, that I hadn't tried to
> soak yet.  Sometime soon I hope to get into a "rut" that Beau likes!

And when you do, you'll know 99% of what you need to keep Beau happy.
 :-))

Susan G