Re: HORSE 37 YEARS OLD

[Chameleon7@aol.com]

Maggie,
Rice bran IS expensive, and we have phased it out here.  Purina Athlete is 
also expensive, but better balanced and more palatable, while otherwise 
comparable to good rice bran products--which I had to disguise in ANY number 
of ways to get the guys to eat the stuff--added molasses, carrots, apples, 
begging "PLEEEEaze just eat it, it's good for you..."  Typically they get 
athlete as a supplement when I have trouble keeping them at their optimum 
weight.  We have a 17 year old Egyptian gelding that just tends to be skinny, 
anyway, and when he is working a lot, he poops out when underweight 
(surprise, surprise).  I've had really good luck with feeding him equine 
senior with extra athlete (almost ten pounds a day--which adds up fast, as 
far as cost)  soaked alfalfa cubes, plus all the grass he can eat on full 
time pasture....his teeth are fine, no parasite problems...Our vet just says 
he has the metabolism of a hummingbird :/  
Mel--River Ranch
Hamilton, Montana


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