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Your Horse Is Only As Good As It's Feet

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If you have seen Nevado lately, he performs like a 7 year old and certainly doesn't act his age of 25 years.   His only age give-away is that his face is now turning white. 

 

The reasons for his youthfulness - excellent genetics combined with excellent nutrition, plus consistent exercise and proper loving care. 

 

When we bought Nevado, we realized the tremendous responsibility upon us to protect the health and well being of such a legend.  We investigated and compared horse feed and drilled the renowned nutritionists on quality products. 

 

After our extensive search, we discovered Triple Crown received the best feed qualifications.   That was 11 years ago and our horses have flourished on Triple Crown products ever since!

The Following Information is Provided by Triple Crown Nutrition Inc.

 

Your horses health and performance are directly linked to the health of its digestive system. Horses on high fiber feeds, which closer mimics their natural high fiber and low carbohydrate diet, provides a healthier digestive tract and will allow horses to look and perform better.

 

High fiber diets are not necessarily new, high fiber feeds have been around for a long time. The problem with these diets in the past is that you sacrificed calories, because high-fiber ingredients are naturally lower in calories than grains. Therefore, the horse has to eat more of the feed to get the same amount of calories that are provided in a typical grain based feed.

 

Triple Crown Nutrition has solved that problem by incorporating quality, high calorie fiber ingredients, high levels of vegetable oil and stabilized rice bran to make up for the sacrifice in calories normally associated with high fiber diets. In addition, the use of Equimix helps the horse's natural digestive system operate at peak performance by improving fermentation and digestion of key nutrients.

 

The Fiber Quality Difference

 

A good rule of thumb used to be "the higher the fiber, the lower the calorie content", and in a lot of cases this is still true.  However, the type and quality of the fiber used in manufacturing feeds is extremely important in determining how "energy dense" the diet may be.  For instance, we use shredded beet pulp as the primary fiber ingredient, providing as many calories as oats.  Other quality fibers include soy hulls, wheat midds, and alfalfa meal.   Fiber products such as rice hulls, oat hulls and peanut hulls are very low  in digestibility and provide only a fraction of the calories found in grain. 

 

Our beet pulp based feeds are considered "complete" in that there is enough dietary fiber in the product that the horse can thrive just by consuming the feed without any hay or pasture.  However, we want horses to continue to get long stem hay or pasture for as long as they are able to graze or eat hay.

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Muscle Ease by Triple Crown - "We recommend this product to everyone!   It is a great way to protect your performance horse from tying up after a vigorous training session or show performance."  said Gordon Calhoun, "In fact, I recommended this to a friend who had a mare that kept typing up on the race track.  He bought the product and shortly thereafter proudly presented me with a video of her winning a race!  She's been on it ever since."

The Magic of Triple Crown Feeds 

Triple Crown Equimix uses organic minerals for improved digestion of micro minerals, probiotics to promote good intestinal health of the digestive system micoflora, and digestive enzymes to enhance the small intestines natural ability to break down nutrients. We also include kelp meal and yucca, which has been supplemented for years by horse owners with beneficial results. Currently, we are one of the only companies adding MTB-100 and Biomos, which are yeast-based products designed to neutralize challenges to the digestive system from mycotoxins found in hay and pasture and pathogenic bacteria, such as E-coli and Salmonella.

Senior and growing horses are real benefactors of this technology.

THE FOLLOWING TRIPLE CROWN PRODUCTS CONTAIN HIGH-FIBER, LOW-CARBOHYDRATES AND HIGH FAT:

Triple Crown Senior

Typically, Triple Crown Senior is recommended for horses that can no longer maintain their body condition on a normal hay and grain diet. In addition to visible signs – weight loss, dull hair coat, diminished muscle tone, reduced activity levels – the mature animal is undergoing internal changes. The whole digestive process is impaired by age. The teeth become less efficient in grinding food, the small intestine becomes less efficient at absorbing nutrients, and the fiber fermentation process becomes more delicate and easily upset. Digestion of certain nutrients becomes progressively more difficult, and the horse will require more food.

Faced with these problems, you'll need to replace the horse's regular feed with one that's easier to chew and digest, while providing the higher level of nutrition and calories needed to maintain good health. Triple Crown Senior provides that nutrition along with the proper amount of calories in the diet to maintain weight when body condition is already a problem.

Triple Crown Growth

In young horses, providing more calories through quality fiber and fat reduces the need for elevated levels of carbohydrates. Lower carbohydrate levels reduce spikes in growth hormone levels giving the horse a more consistent growth pattern, thereby helping to avoid joint problems in young horses. Use Triple Crown Growth until the age of two before switching to Complete.

Also appropriate for providing elevated levels of nutrients required for gestating and lactating mares and breeding stallions.

Triple Crown Complete

Triple Crown Complete is ideal for the adult horse, performance or trail horse.  The high fiber, high fat, low carbohydrate diet finally offers a way to feed the majority of horses to get the results the owner wants - improved body condition while helping to reduce the hyper-activity sometimes associated with diets containing mostly grain (corn, oats, and barley).

It is also very applicable in situations where hay or pasture may be suspect for quality or quantity or in situations where allergies to dust and mold inhibit the amount of normal forage consumed.

"If you would like to talk with us about our experience with Triple Crown products, you are more than welcome to call us with your questions." 

Gordon Calhoun

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