Legends Rice Bran 18% Fat

[gooselover]

Anybody have any opinions on this feed? My OTTB is coming home tomorrow and desperately needs some weight on. It is to be find in conjunction with his regular feed.

Any one have any opinions? Thanks, Jeri

[JulieM]

I don't know about the brand, but I feed Brig rice bran and the results have been great.

Julie

[TeachU2Ride]

Is this a feed that includes rice bran, or just plain rice bran?

Rice bran is not meant to be fed as a sole source of concentrates - it's fed in relatively small amounts due to its high fat content. It also has an enormously high phosphorous ratio that must be balanced by calcium... feeding alfalfa is a good complement.

[gooselover]

This is rice bran and is to be fed along with a regular horse feed. You feed about 1-2lbs per day.

[samantha]

I use Legends feeds from Southern States... I have used their rice bran with success- or you could get the rice bran oil and soak alfalfa cubes in it..

[Pam]

A couple of things. First, if it's STABILIZED rice bran which the Legends pellets are, the Ca/PH ratio is ok, for regular rice bran, teach is correct. Second, I feed Legends brand feeds because they use fixed formulas, which I like. However, in this case I would choose something else. You are looking to put weight on and fat is a great way to do that, but there are better ways to add fat than 18% rice bran pellets. I would look for a 100% fat product. The most common is plain vegetable oil. Lots of people don't like oil for a variety of reasons though. Some of these are that it's messy, some horses don't like it at first (though IME most learn to love it), it freezes in the winter and gets rancid in the summer if you don't use it up fast enough. If you have your horse at home though, it's often the easiest and cheapest way to add fat to the diet.
The best alternative to oil that I have found are the dry fats offered by a few companies. Cool Calories is probably the most familiar of these and is available at most feed stores. If you don't see it, ask if they can get it for you or order it online (but shipping is pretty expensive right now).
If you can get Buckeye feeds, they make the same thing and call it Ultimate Finish 100.
The nice thing about these products is that they have nothing that interferes with the vit/min content of whatever concentrate you are feeding, just like oil, but they are easy to handle, don't freeze and don't get rancid. They don't add any taste to the feed bucket (don't ask me how I know :, but they do have an inviting aroma that horses seem to like.
Here's the results of my OTTB, Rubix (on the left), on Cool Calories.

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Nothing helpful to add to the thread, but my-oh-my those are some pretty ponees, Pam!!