Company Reviews - Mad Barn

Michèle Rhéaume a year ago

This is a fantastic introduction to equine nutrition for horse owners/caretakers. Chris Mortensen and the Mad Barn team have found the perfect balance of hitting the most important points while keeping the course content relatively short but still extremely relevant and useful. I think every horse owner should take this kind of course when deciding to adopt a horse. As a collaborator with Mad Barn, I took the course to deepen my knowledge of equine nutrition and help test the course before it launched and I will definitely be recommending it to other horse owners.

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Tihannah 3 years ago

I initially bought 2kg bags of this. I live in an area with high iron in the soil, so it's common for our horses to bleach out. I went through this in maybe 6 or 7 months (probably giving a little more than the recommended dose), and I honestly wasn't sure if it had really done anything. And then I clipped him. Holy cow! This was the the 4th year I've clipped him, and he's NEVER looked this good after a full body clip. His coat is so dark and shiny. Everyone keeps asking me what I did and literally adding the zinc copper is the only change I made to his diet. I usually clip him in October every year. First photo is last year. 2nd photo is this year.

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Norma Burke 3 years ago

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Was a little skeptical after trying so many different products ( herbs, cough syrups.. etc..) and spending a *** load of money on them over the past 5 years for my Arabs winter dry cough.. So when I stumbled across Spirulina I thought this is the product I'll try this winter. Totally love the product!! Amazed I finally found something that actually worked...Just wished I had stumbled across it a few years ago.. Boi is on his 2nd bag, I give him 20grams morning and night mixed with plain beet pulp, W3 oil and omneity. Definitely 5 stars.

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Betty Ann Lucke 2 years ago

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While the majority of the analysis seems in order I have concerns about the ESC and Starch values because they are done by NIR and not wet chemistry - as was discovered when reading the sample submission form. The advertising on the Mad Barn website gave me the initial impression that the entire testing was done by wet chemistry as there is no listing of NIR in the advertising of the forage analysis product . ESC and Starch is specifically listed under a Wet Chemistry description. I have a laminitic horse and the sample came back with seemingly ’to-good-to-be-true’ values for the ESC and starch content. (Below 10%). With her health hanging in the balance I’m not confident that NIR ESC & Starch is giving me the best information to work with. I do not grow my own hay and cannot be sure of t...

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Christine Estermann 4 years ago

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My vet recommended to feed an Omega 3 oil to one of our ponies with heaves and itchy skin. I'm feeding it to all 4 of our ponies now, and they all love it. I love the smell of it, too! I have a suggestion for the packaging issue: if you offered a hard container that the pouch fits into, similarly to the jugs for milk bags, the difficulty that some people experience with pouring may be remedied. I'm using a 5L feed bucket and it works okay, but a jug that is a bit taller and designed for the pouch would work even better!

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Maegan 4 years ago

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This product is amazing!! Keeps my old TB in great shape from his feet to his coat he looks his best since being on W3. LOVE THE NEW PACKAGING, I always keep my old jugs to recycle them and it was so nice to be able to reuse it, pouring the product from the bag to the jug was very easy with a funnel and I noticed I even had a little leftover in the bag. Horses love the taste and so do my dogs at cats lol. I am totally obsessed with MadBarns products, great pricing and outstanding service!

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Anne Bracey 4 years ago

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Packaging horrible. Tabs on top broke and 1/2 amount of brand new oil dumped and all over my tack locker. Very disappointed and will likely not purchase product again due to this. Lots of spills and very messy with lots of waste!

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Krista Hillier 5 years ago

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I’ve only been using this product for short of two Months now I. T new mare who I’m transitioning to barefoot and battling some white line... let me say WOW!!! I’ve already noticed the additional strength in her hoofs and the new growth coming in. Also her frog health has improved and even her coat!!! Can’t wait to see what 6 months or a year will bring!!! So thankful for a fb support group who guided me to this brand!!!

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Katie Poulsen 2 years ago

I’ll be honest. I wasn’t a huge believer in supplements. I had gone through a few other brands and not gotten any of the promised results. One day Mad Barn came up during my search and after reading the reviews and knowing they had a 60 day guarantee I figured I might as well give it a try. All I can say is holy sh*t!!! After about 40 days on 100ml of the W-3 supplement my 19 year old mare is running around and bucking like a foal!!! I literally have NEVER seen her buck or rear and now she looks like she’s living her best life out in the pasture. To give you a better idea, before this oil, my mare was in bad shape. As soon as our winters start setting in and the temp drops she gets EXTREMELY stiff. In fact she was getting so bad I had a vet recommended putting her down, but I just couldn’...

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Alison Morton 4 years ago

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I have 4 ponies ranging in ages from a yearling up to 25 years old. I feed this to all of my guys, and really wanted it for one of my ponies who has terrible feet (always chipping and pulling shoes) and for my older cushings pony as well who is under weight with no topline. I must say it was a bit of challenge to get one of my ponies to eat it. I did try to soak it in his hay cubes, but that resulted in a no go whatsoever - complete with feed tub tipped over. I started at half dose as well and then tried to soak it in molasses beet pulp on top of his grain. He would pick at it at night and eventually finish if by the morning. Its now been 2 months and I have slowly increased it to a regular dose and I can now just toss the pellets in with his grain (no soaking or mixing with beet...

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