and thank Goodness, I NEEDED IT! I went home and slept two hours without even moving. I set my alarm to get to the farm and feed and still get home to see my favorite fall show, which had its season premiere last nite. I know, I am a dork, but I love me some reality TV, like America's Next Top Model. (which was swell by the way, as was the season finale of Last Comic Standing)
When I got to the farm, the front gates were open which always makes me nervous. This time it was GOOD. Madison was cleaning Radar's stall, and had him tied outside of it while she did it. Smart kid--I know that is the right thing to do, but I am lazy and usually just clean around them. She has no business doing that though, so I am glad to see she used good sense. She had also hayed everyone for me! That was the best part, I absolutely abhor carrying hay.
All I had to do was grain and water, and check her work. We also measured Radar with the stick, and found him to be 13'3 3/4" at the wither and 14'1 3/4" at the hip. He sure does not look uneven to me, but the stick does not lie. I knew my little tape thing that told me he was 13'3" was wrong.
I also started switching Lucky and Gramps to Strategy last nite. It seems to be too good to be true that I could use that and save myself $250 plus per month in Equine Senior on those two, but I am going to try it and see what happens.
I was home by 7:15! I worked on my website some, and tried to learn to do these stupid frames on the pics that I want to change to. Belinda is helping me change up my site some and it is going to be so swell--if she does not choke me out for being simple-minded before it gets done.
Today is the farrier and I am excited-- do not ask me why, everyone knows I am odd about my Marvin. Slygirl is getting her first big girl shoes, and I am ordering her a custom made whorey headstall and breast collar in turquoise ostrich. Head will throw right up even though I showed Linda the link, and she thought it was pretty, I am confident he will not so much think so.
I am pretty much rejuvenated today---I have been on the horn with Florida all morning with an old friend who is caught up in a legal mess--from the sounds of it, that system is ATE UP. Why this shocks me I don't know, but I expect this sort of behavior from places like Texas, but ....Florida? You would think they would be busy with insurance fraud, elder abuse, etc...
Thursday, September 20, 2007
I am a new person today
Posted by Paige at 11:05 AM
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Hi Paige. You might see a big difference in your old folks with the strategy. I learned something recently that I never considered before. Because Equine senior is designed to be a complete feed and no other feed/hay is needed it is relatively low calorie when compared to other feeds, so if it fed with hay (like I fed it) and you give a "typical" amount, they are actually getting less calories than they would from other concentrates/grains. If you have an oldster that has no teeth you don't have a choice but to feed something like this, but my horses are doing better on other feeds than they were on Equine Senior. Sounds like Strategy is working real well for you so far.
Man I hope it is that easy. There was nothing normal about what they were getting in Senior amounts though--15-20 pounds per day per horse, plus beet pulp, plus oil, plus hay. And still not as fat as I would like them to be--nothing does it for gramps like good lush pasture, which you know I would not recognize if I was face down in it this year.
The Strategy calculator says to feed less than four pounds of Strategy, as opposed to 12 pounds of senior.
So what do you think I should do for amounts of Strategy for them, considering how much more I was feeding of the Senior than was recommended?
They both have good teeth, thank God!
Getting Gramps on Strategy would be awesome, since I could run him with others--maybe even babies, which he loves- instead of keeping him in his own pasture. That requires me to also put someone else on his feeding program so he could have a friend.
so complicateD!
If it were me... I would probably switch them over and start out at the 4 pounds and see how they do and go from there. Purina is real good about talking to folks about feeding if you get their number off their site and call. They may even have a aged horse "specialist" to talk to.. of course they are going to scream Equine Senior, but if you tell them what you are doing they could advise you. Will be interesting to see how they do for you. Good luck!
Feed him the strategy. It wont hurt him and start out with less and if you have to, move him up. I fed a comparable feed when I was in Washington and it kept the weight on better than senior. The rice bran is an excelent fattener and it should have a good amount more than the senior does.
Last Comic Standing was good, but I was surprised by who won, although both made laugh pretty good.
I have been feeding Strategy for five years and it is by far the best feed out there. I wish I could free feed it, but now I have One N Only for those issues. I feel really lucky to have found two great horse feeds.
I thought they were both funnas hell-they were my two favorites. Lavells stories about order a 25 piece chicken at Popeyes killed me.
I am glad we started this Strategy business--and that by ordering it in bulk, we can get it down to a reasonable price. Still running me about 700 per month I think, but being able to feed it to everyone makes life much simpler
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