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...

I put my horse on visceral when he had a couple impaction colick episodes within a few weeks of owning him. I purchased online and kept him on for about 3 months. Mad barn reached out by email and asked how it was going. I said great and that I was planning to keep him on the product as he was doing so well. They responded and said I didn't have to keep him on that expensive product if he'd started showing signs of improvement and suggested I switch to this product. I was shocked as it's a cheaper sale for them but I appreciate the honesty so much and switched him about a year ago. He's been great since the switch. I ran out of the product and he was off it for about a week and the difference in lack of gas and stool passing was significant. When he's on the product his guts are working ...

Super Brat will be 24 years old in April 2022. Last summer he lost a lot of weight/muscle due to his summer heaves. As he has PPID with his only visible symptom being loss of topline muscle I had little hope of gaining the weight/muscle back. I started him on Mad Barn's three individual amino acid supplements and Omneity Premix in September. While it took a couple of months for him to really show the weight returning, in December his chiropractor noticed stronger muscling over his loin and hindquarters. A month later the chiropractor said Brat's muscles were even stronger and she had to put a little more effort into the adjustments as there was now something to push against. I have previously tried an amino acids supplement without any noticeable improvement. I am very happy with the res...

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...

My now 20 year old warmblood mare was diagnosed with COPD 3 years ago. Until this year I was spending a fortune and trying everything I could find to get her cough under control. We tried steroids, bronchildilators, inhalers and I even bought a nebulizer. I can't even think about how much money I've spent on this disease(I love her and she is one of the family so I'm not complaining!). I was coming to terms with the thought that she would have to be retired and become a pasture pet....until I read the Dr. Kellon article on the Madbarn website. I decided to give Spirulina and Jiaogulan a go. I'm so happy that I did. This year we have not used the drugs or nebulizer once and have lost no riding days due to coughing! I do have to say that I also have her in as much of a dust free...