Vitamins and Minerals use in horses

The right balance of vitamins and minerals in a horses diet is essential part in keeping the horse healthy.

But what do vitamins do for the horse?

• Vitamin A, C, promotes immune function
• Vitamin D, promotes bone health
• Vitamin E, promotes muscle tissue integrity.
• Fat provides energy, as do soluble carbohydrates.
• The balance between calcium and phosphorus is important in maintaining bone quality.
• Magnesium levels are important to ensure that a variety of enzymes throughout the body functions properly.
• Sulfur maintains hoof and hair quality
• Copper is for bone development and hemoglobin functions
• Zinc is for protein synthesis and metabolism
• Selenium is for maintaining healthy cell membranes

Is your horse getting all the right vitamins and minerals from their feed? Check the ingredients we put in Stablemix, it’s a well balanced blend of all the necessary nutrients to keep your horse healthy.

Stable Mix Horses Keep the Weight On – Customer Story

We received this inspiring e-mail from a customer recently – this is why we do what we do, because the results are happy healthy horses.

“Hi Sherri,

I’m back from my trip to Arizona and Utah for 5 weeks with the horses.  I brought a lot of Stable Mix with me, one full barrel plus I had a dozen bags plus a couple more containers with two bags worth each in them.  The horses just thrived on the feed, and it was so much easier feeding them more EGM pellets and not having to have as much hay.  It rained on us a lot on this trip, and we had to camp for weeks in mud.  The hay that I did have took a lot of work to keep from going bad with all of the rain, but the Stable Mix was great as I had it in my first horse stall or in the back seat of my truck.  Both horses completed 7 days of rides, or 350 miles each for a total of 14 rides and 700 miles plus several days of trail marking.  I don’t think either horse lost any weight and came home looking just as good as when they left on the trip.  Everybody is always asking me how do I keep my horses weight so well.  I always tell them it’s the StableMix!

I saw your post on FB about the Sport Horse mix having G&C in it and was wondering if I could try that in place of the 2 bags of the senior mix?  I’d love to give it a try and see what the horses think as I think that many other horses out there could benefit from having a higher calorie feed.  I see so many horses coming to these rides that are way too thin, and the riders are spending $27 or more per bag of feed and still can’t keep weight on their horses.  The ones I have converted to Stable Mix are doing really well and I think more can too, we just need to get the word out.

Chief passed the 14,000 mile mark on this last ride, Bo went over 7,000 and I made 35,000.  Here are a couple of photos of Chief and I.  I also have a nice one of Bo but need to get it from the ride photographer.  Let me know if you want more photos or for me to do another writeup for you guys.  Thanks again for your sponsorship — it really helps me a lot.

Happy Trails, Karen”

 

New Sport Horse Mix with Glucosamine and Chondroitin

We have added G&C to our popular Sport Horse Mix. Horses in moderate work have a higher calorie and protein requirement and their bodies are subject to stresses that idle horses are not subjected to. EGM Sport Horse Mix with G&C supports the moderately working horse regardless of discipline. Energy levels in Sport Horse Mix with G&C are elevated through the use of fat from rice bran and copra meal not grain. This maintains a low nonstructural carbohydrate (NSC) level (<15%) and reduces the risk of hot and fizzy behavior often associated with elevated NSC. Copra meal provides cool energy from coconut oil a saturated fat. Additionally copra meal is high in the amino acid glutamine which helps support healing of gut tissue an important benefit for performance horses at greater risk of developing gastric ulcers.

As a complete feed EGM Sport Horse Mix with G&C is high fiber (28%) and is formulated to be fed without additional hay in the ration. Unlike hay, when fed as directed, Sport Horse Mix with G&C will provide your horse with all the necessary vitamins and minerals insuring a balanced mineral profile for health and performance. To support your horse’s hooves Sport Horse Mix with G&C provides biotin which research has shown will improve hoof health when used long term. Visit www.elkgrovemilling.com to find a dealer near you.

New Stablemix Formula

Introducing Senior Stable Mix with Glucosamine and Chondroitin

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Stable Mix with Glucosamine and Chondroitin

Elk Grove Milling is proud to announce our newly formulated Stable Mix products with glucosamine and chondroitin. It is becoming increasingly popular for feeds to include sources of joint support, something that Elk Grove Milling has been doing for 31 years. When feeding at least 6 lbs. per day, (old product was 12 lbs. per day) our Stable Mix, Stable Mix Senior and Sport Horse Mix will provide your horse with 2000mg of glucosamine hydrochloride and 700mg of chondroitin sulfate.

If you have a horse with arthritis or you are concerned about him developing arthritis, consider EGM Stable Mix with G&C, Senior Stable Mix with G&C or Sport Horse Mix with G&C. Arthritis causes the cartilage surrounding joints to wear thin and degrade. Glucosamine is a precursor to the synthesis of collagen and glycosaminoglycan’s (GAGs) found in joint cartilage. Studies have shown that glucosamine provided orally accumulates in cartilage and is detectable in synovial fluid. Other research suggests that glucosamine works best in combination with chondroitin and so we have included both. You must feed a minimum of 6 pounds per day to a 1000 pound horse to get the benefit of the glucosamine and chondroitin.

10 Steps to making Stable Mix

Ever wonder what goes into making Stable Mix? Well here are the ten steps to transform the raw ingredients into the premium horse feed your horses love.

Step 1: The various ingredients such as mixed hay, alfalfa hay, rice bran, soybean meal and almond hulls are weighed, inspected and unloaded in specified areas at Elk Grove Milling, Inc.

Step 2: Each product has a specific formula which is converted to a mix card. The foreman instructs his crew to mix the ingredients, except the hay, together based on the specific mix card, going in by volume and weight.

Step 3: The mix is then put into a hopper which is volumetrically controlled. The mix is metered at 45% into the product stream where it is blended with the required types of hay as they go through the grinder.

Step 4: From the grinder, the complete mix including hays, is airlifted to the top of the mill where it drops into the meal bin, it sits here until fed into the conditioner.

Step 5: In the conditioner steam is introduced to the product while it continues to be mixed.

Step 6: The product is then dropped into the front of the pellet mill. The product is dropped into the center of the die, which consist of one die and two roller shells. The rollers are stationary as the die revolves, forcing the feed through the die and creating small, soft, pellets.

Step 7: The pellets then drop out of the die and are placed onto the hot pellet super flow which takes them to the hot pellet elevator. They are then lifted up and dropped into the top of the cooler. The cooler cools the pellets from the bottom using ambient air. This removes some of the moisture and hardens the pellets.

Step 8: The cool, hard, pellets are then moved into a cleaner where broken pellets and fines are removed and sent back through the pelleting process.

Step 9: The final product is then moved to storage tanks for bagging, barreling or sent to tanks for bulk loads.

Step 10: Customers and orders come in and our crew packages the different products for purchase, shipment and delivery. The pellets are then ready to be fed to happy, healthy horses! YUM!

Visit our list of retailers to find a place to pick up Stable Mix for your horses today!

Different Hay Types

Here is a little insight about different hay types. Stable mix being one of them plus extras

http://www.thehorse.com/articles/32068/digesting-different-hay-forms?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=nutrition&utm_campaign=06-24-2013

Customer Testimonial

“Last year we had a friend of ours ask if we wanted to take on a colt she had. He was a beautiful Arab colt and had been born 39 days early, so he needed lots of extra feed and care. By one month of age we had him eating a mix of stable mix pellets along with a foalac supplement, vitamins and antibiotics because he needed to have surgery on his legs to correct a possible deformity etc…the stable mix not only masking the taste of antibiotics but it also gave that colt the extra nutrients he needed to gain weight and strength. His dam too benefited because the stable mix gave her the extra calories she needed to help her keep weight while feeding the colt. I fully believe that the stable mix made the difference in both of their lives. Today they are both healthy horses and the colt, that is now a yearling is at the proper weight and height charts for colts his age. All of our horses get stable mix on a daily basis and in cold winter months, it is the extra help they need to maintain weight and keep their bodies warm. I love stable mix!”
Marijane Nichols, Lockeford, Arabians

Tidbits on Pellets

One of the major advantages of pellets is that, compared to other types of feed, they are very low in dust. “Compete” pelleted feeds can include not only grains, but vitamins and other supplements. And manufacturers have created many types of pelleted mixes to suit all sorts of horses, no matter their activities.

Pelleted feeds are significantly less dusty than loose or baled hay, or unprocessed grains (when not coated with molasses). This can be an important factor if you are feeding a horse with respiratory problems. It also makes working with pellets a pleasure–just scoop and pour, with no coughing necessary! Because pellets are not coated with molasses as are most commercial sweet feeds, they are also easier to handle in the winter, when molasses can freeze as hard as concrete.

Some new photos

Pictures attached of Elk Grove Milling’s clean room. Storage of our daily purchased Stable Mix products. Easy to identify & load.

Two New Products – Beef Mix & Sheep Mix

Elk Grove Milling is proud to announce the release of two brand new products; Beef Mix & Sheep Mix. You may read more about them on our website at:
1. Beef MixTM
2. Sheep MixTM

For more information or ask us any questions please contact us:

T: (888) 346-7649
P: (916) 684-2056
F: (916) 684-2059
Email: deb@elkgrovemilling.com

Below is an outline of the information on the site.

BEEF MIX TM

FEEDING DIRECTIONS
Specially designed for cattle. Feed at 2# to 2-1/2# per 100# of the animal’s weight each day. Provide fresh, clean water at all times except to hot, tired animals. Store feed in a cool, dry place.

GUARANTEED ANALYSIS:
Crude Protein Minimum 14.0%
Crude Fat Minimum 3.0%
Crude Fiber Maximum 18.0%
Ash Maximum 5.5%
Calcium Maximum 0.9%
Phosphorus Minimum 0.4%
Contains Zinpro 4-Plex & Zinpro 100

INGREDIENTS:
Alfalfa Meal, Carbohydrate Fines, Almond Hulls, Distillers Dried Grains, Rice Bran, Mix Hay, Grain Screenings, Cane Molasses, Salt, Ground Limestone, Dicalcium Phosphate, Monocalcium Phosphate, Zinc Methionine Complex, Magnesium Oxide, Manganese Methionine Complex, Glycerin, Manganous Sulfate, Copper Lysine Complex, Cobalt Glucoheptonate, Soybean Oil, Zinc Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Vitamin E Supplement, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Cobalt Carbonate, Ethylene Diamine Dihydriodide, Sodium Selenite

SHEEP MIX TM

FEEDING DIRECTIONS
Specially designed for sheep. Feed at 1# to 1-1/2# per 100# of the animal’s weight each day. Provide fresh, clean water at all times except to hot, tired animals. Store feed in a cool, dry place.

GUARANTEED ANALYSIS:
Crude Protein                Minimum           16.0%
Crude Fat                      Minimum             3.0%
Crude Fiber                   Maximum          20.0%
Ash                              Maximum            4.5%
Calcium                        Maximum            0.9%
Phosphorus                  Minimum             0.4%

INGREDIENTS:
Alfalfa Hay, Dried Vegetable Product, Distillers Dried Grains , Almond Hulls, Rice Bran, Mix Hay, Cane Molasses, Salt, Ground Limestone, Calcium Carbonate, Monocalcium and Dicalcium Phosphate, Sodium Selenite, Magnesium Oxide, Mineral Oil, Zinc Sulphate, Manganese Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Vitamin E Supplement, Ethylenediamine Dihydriodide, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Cobalt Carbonate