RE: RE: Re: Purina Complete Advantage

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

Yep, looks like sweet feed to me, but don't have the ingredients list in
front of me.  On Purina Mills website they totally disclaim any association
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!

I think Susan's point about the convenience of Complete Advantage works for
me.  I don't have time to mix up stuff everyday, especially since I am in a
boarding situation and have to rely on someone else to feed the rations and
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.

I'm still trying to figure out what supplemental feed works best for my
horse, or if it makes that much difference.  I was feeding LMF Endurance G
and Beau loved it.  I understand that LMF is reformulating their product
line.  He's lukewarm about Complete Advantage, but I wanted to feed it
because of the beet pulp, and wanted to use beet pulp at rides. They finally
started distributing Farr Legacy out here (I complained a lot on Ridecamp
re: advertising it but not making it available) at least at one store had it
in Livermore that I happened to go to "accidently".  So I bought a bag to
start feeding once the Complete Advantage is gone.  And I bought a bag of
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!

K.

-----Original Message-----
From:	Karen Sullivan [mailto:greymare@jps.net]
Sent:	Friday, July 14, 2000 12:48 PM
To:	Kathy Mayeda; Susan Garlinghouse; Linda Romander; ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject:	Re: RE: Re: Purina Complete Advantage


Subject: RC: RE: Re: Purina Complete Advantage


> I thought I saw on the package that it is a complete feed.  I searched the
> website  (incidently Purina Mills is being reorganized under Chapter 11),
> the website is being reconstructed so I called to confirm.  They said that
> it WAS a complete feed and that the roughage was beet pulp.
>
> I heard that some places in Europe feed beet pulp in lieu of hay.
>
> At any rate, I feed Complete Advantage as a supplement only myself.
>
> K.
>
>
When you look at the stuff, does it look like sweet feed?  Do it have added
molasses?

reason I ask, seems the majority of Purina feeds seem to be high on
molasses, except for the
Horse Chow, which is ALFALFA based.

Complete Advantage and Purina Athlete seem to be the only feed I would be
remotely interested, and I can do better by buying bags of beet pulp;
vegetable oils, and the much cheaper cost-wise Manna-pro feeds I can get at
Walmart for $5 a bag (they have complete pellets based on grass hays, and
complete pellets based on alfalfa hays, a nice sweet feed for occasions that
is more grain and pellets than really sweet, Manna senior, etc., etc.

And.......here is a question I have always wanted to ask.............their
dog foods are "grocery store"
quality (so so), and not the quality of Iams, or Science Diet, so why would
their bagged horse foods be anything much to rave about?

What I seem to end up doing these days is bags and bags of beet pulp, then
added a 10% protein manna-pro pellet, maybe some manna senior, maybe some of
their 'sweet feed" called Wagon train; salt, veg. oil, and something like
Select II or Accell.  Other thing I didn't like about the Purina feeds is
that so many of them were too high on the protein scale for me.

Karen