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Actually that is pretty much what some of these feeds tend to do. I 
don't use Ultima, but it is balanced with vit's/minerals, fiber ( beet 
pulp ) and fat so that you only have to feed one concentrate along with 
grass and hay, rather than mix your own.

Since I've started with XTN I don't mess with anything else - except Se 
since FL soil has none in it-  except grass and hay. It makes life a lot 
easier.

I suspect the "certified dealier" is nothing more than marketing hype to 
sell it. I suspect it takes a modern mill to produce it and they can't 
produce it in sufficient amounts yet. You bet you bibby you can find it 
in Ocala, FL and Lexington, KY - why they hook the race horse community 
they got big bucks coming in. The Sundowner dealier in Ocala also 
handles Purina feed. He has Ultima. I asked him about this training bit 
to sell it when I was up there picking up a part for my trailer not long 
ago. He said the only training they got was they got a product sheet and 
guidelines just like they had for all the feeds. Believe me Purina is a 
company in business to make money selling feed. If they could produce 
enough every dealier would have it.

Truman

DreamWeaver wrote:

> I think in the beginning I tried too hard.  In reality, what I have 
> found thru a lot of trail and error is that less is usually best.  
> Like Ed said -- the KISS method.  I think that we do too much and 
> think we have to do some things that we really don't need to do, like 
> feeding high $ feeds, or adding this and that.  I now know if I am 
> bringing along a young horse and he isn't keeping weight that there 
> are other ways to correct the problem than to simply shove every kind 
> of fancy new feed and supplement at him.  It is very seldom the horses 
> fault.  (for whatever problem we, the human---has caused)         
>
> Karen
> in NV



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