RE: RE: Re: Purina Complete Advantage

["Kathy Mayeda" <kathy_mayeda@atce.com>]

Okay, so I mind-farted on the ethoxyquin!  The article obviously didn't stop
me from feeding my horse Complete Advantage at any rate - I'm not one to
take things on blind faith.  And I still eat foods that have unreadable
chemical ingredients myself in spite of my "granola" college education!
Thanks for the perspective - you are the influence on me starting to think
beet pulp from your fabulous articles!

Kathy

-----Original Message-----
From:	Susan Garlinghouse [mailto:suendavid@worldnet.att.net]
Sent:	Friday, July 14, 2000 5:39 PM
To:	Kathy Mayeda; Karen Sullivan; Linda Romander; ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject:	Re: RE: Re: Purina Complete Advantage

> 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