Horse Feed 01/17/07 3:15:01 PM
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Feeds
Click the link below for information about the horse feed products that MFA has to offer:
Easykeeper
Strut-N-Shine 16%
MFA Gold Star 5% Horse Mineral
Easykeeper 11%
Easykeeper 14% Performance Ration
MFA Easykeeper Edge
MFA Easykeeper Golden Years
MFA Easykeeper 32% Supplement
Easykeeper
The Right Choice for You and Your Horse.
The right choice isn't necessarily the cheapest-or the most expensive horse feed available. It's a good-tasting, easily digestible, quality ration that's designed to give your horse the best possible nutrition. That's why your choice should be MFA Easykeeper Horse Feeds. They're designed to build and maintain strong, healthy bodies, and to give your horse the energy and stamina needed for top performance.
Nutritionally complete
Prevents problems associated with physitis and rapid bone growth, and lets you avoid costly oversupplementation.
Easily digestible
Get the finish you want with less feed and cut your total feed bill.
Rich molasses flavor
Your horse will love the taste.
Dependable performance
MFA's nutrition and veterinary staff are ready to answer your questions and they're backed by years of field research on our products. You'll feel good knowing you've given your horse a quality feed that consistently performs time after time and at a price that is easy on your wallet.
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Strut-N-Shine 16%
Strut-N-Shine Foal Feed is 16% protein, with chelated minerals and high lysine to help rapidly growing foals develop strong bone and muscle tissue. Let them start nibbling Strut-N-Shine at about 2 months of age. Feed up to 1 pound per month of age for best results. Creep fed foals tend to have fewer intestinal problems at weaning and outgain herd mates that aren't creep fed until after weaning.
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MFA Gold Star 5% Horse Mineral
This free-choice vitamin and mineral supplement is for horses of all ages. Add MFA 5% Horse Mineral to the grain ration of any horse to help ensure adequate and properly balanced mineral/vitamin nutrition. Offer free choice to adult horses. Horses usually consume 2 to 4 ounces per head per day. If topdressing maintenance horses or horses in light training, add 2 ounces to feed per day. For yearlings, pregnant mares, lactating mares, horses in moderate training and stallions, add 2 ounces to feed per day. For foals, weanlings and horses in heavy training, add 4 ounces to feed per day. Be sure to offer plenty of fresh, clean water.
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Easykeeper 11%
Easykeeper's 11% protein formula is an excellent feed for horses, including stallions and pregnant and nursing mares.
Feed Easykeeper 11% with good hay and ample clean water. Amount fed (usually 1-2% of body weight) should vary according to activity and condition.
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Easykeeper 14% Performance Ration
Easykeeper's performance ration was originally formulated to meet the special energy needs of the equine athlete. Our 14% protein diet is an excellent choice for the barrel racer, endurance rider, or the thoroughbred race horse. Whether you use Easykeeper 14% Performance Ration to keep a thoroughbred in top condition, or for fitting out yearlings, you'll notice a healthy bloom and increased energy.
Feed Easykeeper 14% Performance Ration to mature horses with good hay and ample clean water. Amount fed will vary according to activity and condition, but should generally be 1-2% of body weight.
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MFA Easykeeper Edge
Edge is a specially formulated horse feed for all ages and disciplines. Edge contains biotin for dry, cracked hoof conditions. It is fortified with optimum levels of vitamins and minerals and pelleted to aid digestibility. Edge is cost effective. You purchase one feed for all ages and get all necessary vitamins and minerals. Edge contains additional fat levels to maintain body weight and coat condition. It contains a blended vegetable oil source to aid in digestion, improve palatability and enhance performance.
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MFA Easykeeper Golden Years
Golden Years is a highly palatable 14% protein feed designed specifically for the older horse. It is pelleted, for easier chewing and consumption which improves digestion and ensures the availability of protein and energy sources. Fortified with added calcium, phosphorus, selenium, zinc and vitamin E, Golden Years provides for better health and shiny hair coats. This formula contains highly digestible fiber to reduce the chance of colic and digestive upsets. Amount fed should generally be 1-2% of body weight, but will vary according to body condition.
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MFA Easykeeper 32% Supplement
MFA Easykeeper 32% Supplement is a scientifically formulated protein, vitamin and mineral source to supply extra nutrients that any class of horse may need!
MFA Easykeeper 32% Supplement can be added to the grain ration of any horse to help ensure properly balanced total nutrition. Use it for your hard-working performance horses, for your lactating mare, or for that stallion in the middle of breeding season who needs extra stamina. All these are examples of the extra benefit of MFA Easykeeper 32% Supplement. Replace a portion of the grain ration with Easykeeper 32% Supplement. Consult the feed tag for specific feeding directions.
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Horse Feeding Tips
Establish your horse's feeding program based on sound nutrition. Too much supplement is economically wasteful and may be harmful. MFA Easykeeper Horse feeds are "complete" and contain the required vitamins and mineral levels when fed as directed.
- Feeding horses requires good judgment. Focus on feeding each horse according to its individual needs and body condition. Adjust as needed.
- Regular feeding times are key. Set a routine for feeding, preferably twice daily at the same time each day.
- Feed the same amount each day. Avoid drastic fluctuations. If ration changes are necessary do so gradually. Blend an increasing amount of the new ration with a decreasing amount of the present ration over a 4 to 7 day period. This minimizes the chance of digestive upsets.
- Feed only top-quality feeds. Include hay that is free of dust and molds. Also, provide free access to clean, fresh water and MFA 5% Gold Star horse mineral at all times.
- Be sure to observe your horses' eating patterns. If group feeding, ensure that timid horses are fed separately. Daily time spent in observing your horse will be beneficial. Horses that don't readily begin eating when first fed should be watched closely for signs of problems.
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How Fat Is Too Fat?
Fat ponies/horses are more likely to founder again, but even thin or normal-weight animals can founder. An excellent way to monitor the pony’s weight is to get a weight tape and check his weight every 10 days to two weeks. (Write it down and refer back to your chart!)
Check the fat around the top of his tail and through his lumbar area. If that fat gets lumpy or hard, founder or laminitis could be in the near future. The crest of his neck is one of the best places to tell if you are in for trouble. If it increases in size, thickness or lumpiness – WARNING!!!
Any horse/pony that has foundered should be restricted to the amount of grass consumed. A dry lot (a small paddock near the other horses that has most of the grass eaten out of it) is by far the best choice. There are grazing muzzles available, but they can be rubbed off by those that hate to wear them!
Some ponies/horses can tolerate small amounts of grass; others can’t. You will have to watch carefully for any signs of soreness any time he gets turned out where there is a lot of grass.
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For more Information Contact Gene Bair 660-727-3371 |
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