Description
Keep an older horse eating well with Triple Crown Safe Starch Fortified Forage, a chopped hay diet that stands in for grain entirely. Each 40 lb bag is half timothy and half orchard grass hay, fortified with the vitamins and minerals a mature horse needs, and built with no whole grains and no molasses at all. Dietary starch tops out at 1.50% and ESC sugars at 6.50%, so horses with insulin sensitivity, worn teeth, or nothing but poor hay in front of them can hold their weight without the sugar spike that comes with a sweet feed.
Key Features
- Whole grain and molasses free: Nothing in the bag encourages a starch or sugar surge, which makes it a safe choice for metabolic horses.
- Very low starch and sugar: 1.50% maximum dietary starch, 6.50% maximum ESC sugars, and an estimated NSC of 9.9%.
- Chopped forage base: A 50/50 timothy and orchard grass blend that a horse with poor teeth can actually chew and swallow.
- Complete fortification: 11% protein, 6% fat, 28% fiber, and roughly 1,100 kcal per pound, plus balanced calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, and organic trace minerals.
- Live microbials and enzymes: 1.88 billion CFU per pound of direct-fed microbials with added cellulase and protease to help fiber digestion.
- Soaks into a mash: Add water to aid hydration, soften the ration, or slow a horse that bolts its feed.
Feeding Directions
Work from the horse’s job and body weight. For an 1,100 lb horse, feed 4 to 6 lb per day alongside hay or pasture, 10 lb per day when you are replacing feed or grain, or 15 to 20 lb per day when this is the entire diet. If you are using it as a grain replacement, keep at least 0.50% of body weight in hay or pasture in the ration. It can also be mixed into the grain portion of a meal to slow intake down. Adjust up or down to hold the body condition you want, and make any change gradually. Provide salt and plenty of fresh, clean water at all times, store the bag somewhere cool and dry, and look the product over daily — do not feed it if it is old, moldy, or has insects in it.
Caution: Follow label directions. Chromium supplementation should not exceed 4 mg per day. This product contains copper — do not feed it to sheep.
Ingredients
Orchard Hay, Timothy Hay, Glycerin, Wheat Middlings, Soybean Oil, Dehulled Soybean Meal, Calcium Carbonate, Soybean Hulls, Magnesium Oxide, Monocalcium Phosphate, Manganese Amino Acid Complex, N-Butyric Acid, Zinc Oxide, Peppermint Oil, Zinc Amino Acid Complex, Yeast Culture, Vitamin E Supplement, Sodium Bicarbonate, Salt, Lignin Sulfonate, Copper Amino Acid Complex, Hydrolyzed Yeast, Maize Distillers Dried Solubles, Dried Seaweed Meal, Monosodium Phosphate, Dried Kelp, Yeast Extract, L-Lysine, Active Dry Yeast, Ascorbic Acid, DL-Methionine, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Fenugreek, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Hydrated Sodium Calcium Aluminosilicate, Selenium Yeast, Chromium Propionate, Magnesium Proteinate, Niacin Supplement, Biotin, Copper Sulfate, Dried Bacillus subtilis Fermentation Product, Dried Enterococcus faecium Fermentation Product, Dried Lactobacillus acidophilus Fermentation Product, Leucine, Thiamine Mononitrate, Vitamin A Supplement, Beta-Carotene, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Riboflavin Supplement, D-Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Choline Chloride, Dried Trichoderma longibrachiatum Fermentation Product, Folic Acid, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex, Zinc Sulfate, Ethylenediamine Dihydroiodide, Dried Bacillus licheniformis Fermentation Extract. Contains a source of live (viable), naturally occurring microorganisms.
Guaranteed Analysis
- Crude Protein (min.) 11.00%
- Lysine (min.) 0.35%
- Methionine (min.) 0.10%
- Threonine (min.) 0.30%
- Tryptophan (min.) 0.07%
- Leucine (min.) 0.38%
- Crude Fat (min.) 6.00%
- Crude Fiber (max.) 28.00%
- ADF (max.) 30.00%
- NDF (max.) 46.00%
- Dietary Starch (max.) 1.50%
- Sugars, ESC (max.) 6.50%
- Fructans (max.) 5.90%
- Calcium (min.) 0.40%
- Calcium (max.) 0.90%
- Phosphorus (min.) 0.20%
- Magnesium (min.) 0.25%
- Potassium (min.) 1.80%
- Copper (min.) 35 ppm
- Selenium (min.) 0.30 ppm
- Zinc (min.) 100 ppm
- Manganese (min.) 100 ppm
- Iron (min.) 150 ppm
- Chromium (max.) 0.44 ppm
- Vitamin A (min.) 4,000 IU/lb.
- Vitamin D min.) 700 IU/lb.
- Vitamin E (min.) 100 IU/lb.
- Biotin (min.) 0.15 mg/lb
- Ascorbic Acid (min.) 30 mg/lb.
- Total Direct Fed Microbials (min.) 1.88 billion CFU/lb.
- Saccharomyces Cerevisiae (min.) 906 million CFU/lb.
- Lactobacillus Acidophilus (min.) 454 million CFU/lb.
- Enterococcus Faecium (min.) 454 million CFU/lb.
- Bacillus Subtilis (min.) 66.40 million CFU/lb.
- Cellulase¹ (Trichoderma Longibrachiatum) (min.) 1,644 CU/lb.
- Protease² (Bacillus Licheniformis) (min.) 0.34 HUT/lb.
Specifications
- Brand: Triple Crown
- Animal: Horses — mature, metabolic, and underweight
- Form: Chopped fortified forage
- Forage blend: 50% timothy hay, 50% orchard grass hay
- Calories: 1,100 kcal per pound
- WSC: 8.1%
- ESC: 4.5%
- Starch: 1.8%
- Starch & ESC: 6.3%
- Estimated NSC (WSC +Starch): 9.9%
- Size: 40 lb bag
- Spec sheet: Available under Documentation
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