Total Equine

[tmatt]

Does anyone on here use Total Equine? I need some real world opinions on this feed, not just the salesman's opinion. How do the horses look? How do they act? How much do they eat? Etc.

[Circle C]

Started feeding it several months ago.  I am more pleased with it than any other feed I have fed. Including Omelene 200, Strategy, Nutrena Compete, Acco Paymaster, etc...    It is a bit pricey, was paying 14.15/40, now paying 15/40#... but it's like the good dog feed, it may cost more per pound, but you don't have to feed as much.

The same horse has gone from two 3# scoops twice a day of Acco 12/8   to 1-1/2 3# scoops twice a day on the Total Equine.  Works out to about 25% less feed to have the same results.

One thing I have noticed on one of the horses, is he sweats considerably more on this feed. I've never seen him lathered up before, but he lathers on the Total... can't explain it. Doesn't happen on any of the others, just one of them.

[curdog10]

Started feeding it several months ago.  I am more pleased with it than any other feed I have fed. Including Omelene 200, Strategy, Nutrena Compete, Acco Paymaster, etc...    It is a bit pricey, was paying 14.15/40, now paying 15/40#... but it's like the good dog feed, it may cost more per pound, but you don't have to feed as much.

The same horse has gone from two 3# scoops twice a day of Acco 12/8   to 1-1/2 3# scoops twice a day on the Total Equine.  Works out to about 25% less feed to have the same results.

One thing I have noticed on one of the horses, is he sweats considerably more on this feed. I've never seen him lathered up before, but he lathers on the Total... can't explain it. Doesn't happen on any of the others, just one of them.

  Total is all feed my ropin horses and I like it

[tmatt]

How is their hay consumption? Do they eat more or less? How is their muscle tone? Do they seem to keep weight pretty well? I know it varies from horse to horse but as an average how are they?

[aladatrot]

Muscle tone is excellent. They do hold their weight, but a hard keeper is going to be a hard keeper no matter what. I really like the feed, the horses like to eat it, and they look great except for one who is injured and who is maxed out on total equine and still gets 3 lbs a day of omolene 200. He is hurt and he is the only one not thriving. He isn't a rack of bones, but he isn't  thriving.

On hay, I feed quite a bit of hay anyway. They eat all I give them, but it is alfalfa. Most horses would want to clean up good alfalfa hay if given the choice. The really good thing about the feed is that if you have an easy keeper, he will get all his required vitamins and minerals on just 4 lbs per day of total equine, assuming he is a 1000 lb animal. No more supplementing the easy keepers whose feet used to fall apart because they weren't getting enough feed to supply their biotin and methionine.

I can't say enough good about that feed.

Cheers
M

[curdog10]

Mine look great when we go down the road I feed them a scoop twice a day and a flake of hay twice a day and might run 10 head a day for three or four days and they live in trailer and they never lose a pound another thing my horses don't seem near as hot on it like they do on omolene

[tmatt]

Thanks for the responses, I needed some real world reviews. I think I am gonna give it a try. Where is a good place to get it? I am southeast of Dallas.