I struggled for months trying to get weight on my mini mare after she had ulcers. Even with lots of hay and feed nothing was making a difference. She had been on camelina oil for several months, but it wasn't making a difference. I already used other madbarn products, so I decided to give the w-3 oil a try. I started noticing a few things in the first month she seemed more happier to eat, and looked like she was so 'sunken' around the hips. But with it being winter and having a wooly miniature it's so hard to tell if they're gaining weight. After doing a quick body clipping a few days ago, I couldn't believe what I saw. Nothing changed in her diet other then adding in the w3 oil. I wish I had gotten a photo of what she looked like before ! She's been on the w3 oil since November 202...

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...