Posted by Ron on October 23, 2009, 10:31 am, in reply to "Ron might be on to something...."
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Only problem I have with Pedigree is the corn in it. Our older dogs do fine on it though.
As for horses........A friend of mine and I had a training barn with 30 Saddlebreds in training. Most were Racking Horses. He was the trainer, I handled some but did most of the grunt work. We were having a problem with some of the horse and we were sitting in the tackroom/office trying to figure it out. The cutting trainer from up the road came in and joined the conversation. This was the old AQHA guy. He basically said that we had some of the best fed horses in the country but it was that, that was the problem. We tried his feeding method and over time, fed all the horses the same. The only thing that changed from horse to horse was the amount of feed. All horses came around, great looking coats and fit as hell. The feed? Oats and Barley...that's it. Hay of course went with it. Oats for weight, Barley for energy. If the horse need more weight....add more oats. If the horse was working harder and needed more energy....add more barley. You have to be careful they don't founder but you figure that out. If you wanted more shine on a show horse, simply take the horse, about an hour before the show, put them on a lunge line and work up a swet. Then wash them with ONLY water, then put them back on the lunge line and let them dry, then take a face brush and brush them down with a lot of pressure on the brush. This brings up all the oil. They shined like you wouldn't believe. People always asked how we got the shine but wouldn't believe us.
By the way....we cut our feed bill in half.
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