General Feeding Guidelines for Horses
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Ready to purchase!Strategy® Healthy Edge® feed gives horses age 2 and older the nutritional edge needed to support nearly any lifestyle from recreation to performance to retirement. The combination of high quality pellets and extruded Amplify® high-fat nuggets delivers a controlled starch and sugar, higher fat and fiber formulation with moderate calories and balanced nutrition.
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For Maintenance, Performance and Senior Horses.
Health inside and out. A nutritional edge. Two things every horse owner wants for their horse, and what Strategy® Healthy Edge® horse feed is designed to deliver. Nutrition that helps horses look amazing, feel great and perform at their best.
Strategy® Healthy Edge® feed gives horses age 2 and older the nutritional edge needed to support nearly any lifestyle from recreation to performance to retirement. The combination of high quality pellets and extruded Amplify® high-fat nuggets delivers a controlled starch and sugar, higher fat and fiber formulation with moderate calories and balanced nutrition. Made with only high quality, wholesome ingredients and extensively tested at the Purina Animal Nutrition Center, Strategy® Healthy Edge® horse feed is easy for horses to digest and hard for them to resist.
A proprietary blend of vegetable oils, flax seed and rice bran for performance, shine & bloom
High quality sources chosen for their optimal amino acid profiles support muscle tone and overall performance in a moderate protein formula.
Multiple fiber sources including beet pulp provide slow-releasing fuel for sustained performance.
Outlast® supplement contains a unique blend of ingredients that are designed to support gastric balance, giving you and your horse the confidence to perform.
Feeding directions with hay or pasture. Start with the amounts given for the weight and lifestyle of the horse. After observing the horse for a period of time, the amount fed may be increased or decreased by 10% to obtain the desired body condition and weight.
Weight of Horse in Pounds | ||||
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Lifestyle | 600 | 800 | 1,000 | 1,200 |
Minimum Hay or Equivalent Pasture* (lbs/day) | 7.00 | 9.50 | 12.00 | 14.50 |
Strategy® Healthy Edge® Horse Feed (lbs/day)** | ||||
Maintenance – Minimum Activity | 2.00 | 2.50 | 3.25 | 3.75 |
Maintenance – Average Activity | 2.75 | 3.50 | 4.25 | 5.00 |
Maintenance – Elevated Activity | 3.25 | 4.25 | 5.25 | 6.25 |
Light Work | 4.00 | 5.25 | 6.50 | 7.75 |
Moderate Work | 5.50 | 7.25 | 9.00 | 10.75 |
Early Gestation (first 250 days) | 2.75 | 3.75 | 4.50 | 5.50 |
Late Gestation last 90 days) | 4.25 | 5.50 | 6.75 | 8.00 |
Breed Stallion | 4.75 | 6.25 | 7.75 | 9.50 |
*This is the recommended minimum amount of hay to be fed. If feeding more hay, reduce the feeding rate of Strategy® Healthy Edge® horse feed by 1 pound for every additional 2 pounds of hay fed.
**Do not feed less than 0.3 pounds per 100 pounds of body weight per day. If your horse gains too much weight at that minimum feeding rate, then you should replace Strategy® Healthy Edge® horse feed with Enrich Plus® ration balancing feed.
Size | 50 lbs. |
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Protein Percent | 12.5% minimum |
Fat Percent | 8% minimum |
Fiber Percent | 18% maximum |
Brand | Purina |