Why is Renew Gold™ 15% protein, and is this too much for my horse?
How much additional protein to add to your horse’s diet is one of the most misunderstood topics that I encounter when discussing equine nutrition with horse owners. While most horse owners base the feed concentrate that they add to their horse’s roughage source (hay) on its protein level, many don’t really understand how that affects the total nutritional profile.
Understanding the percentage of protein in a feed supplement seems to be a very confusing issue. Do I feed a 10% instead a 12%, a 12% instead of a 15%? Let’s take a look.
Where protein is concerned, the considerations should be total protein added to the diet, what proteins are actually provided, and what you are trying to achieve. Renew Gold™ is 15% natural vegetable sourced protein. Is this too much if your horse seems to get along with a current product that is 10%, or 12%? Looking at the total amount that is contributed to the diet will give you a clearer picture of just what the true protein numbers are and what effect they will have on your horse.
One pound of Renew Gold provides 68 grams of quality, highly usable, vegetable-sourced protein. This would be a typical daily inclusion of Renew Gold in most horse’s diets.
One pound of a “Brand X”, you fill in the name, 10% protein grain-based feed concentrate provides 45 grams of protein. But, according to feed instructions typically found on their label, you will be told to feed four or five pounds, or more, of this product. If we take the lower number of four pounds, you are adding 180 grams of protein per day into your horse. Even if you only feed several pounds of a 10% feed, you are still adding almost 1/3 more total protein than you are with Renew Gold. As you can see, if you are concerned about too much total protein added in the diet, Renew Gold adds much less, even though the label guarantee per pound is higher.
If your goal in adding protein is meeting additional energy needs, we feel that there is a better way. Rather than rely on more added protein in your horses diet like most feed companies do, we designed Renew Gold to provide the type and amount of quality protein necessary in the diet to support tissue repair, healthy growth, and to help meet essential amino acid needs. Then, instead of more added protein as an energy source, Renew Gold provides additional cooler energy more efficiently by the inclusion of three sources of high quality, easily digestible natural vegetable fats. Additionally, Renew Gold’s digestive aid and light foot print in the system promotes an overall improvement of digestive efficiency.
Not relying on additional protein for energy support allows you to take high amounts of added feed out of the diet. Doing this has additional benefits. Less grain means lower total NSC numbers which, in turn, can lower colic risk, and moderate temperament. At the same time, Renew Gold supports a digestive system that can then function closer to how nature intended. Our goal in the end is better use of the roughage that your horse eats, improved efficiency and a consistent predictable energy level from one day to the next. All of this gives you a greater ability to adjust that energy level to your needs.
When you think about it, doesn’t this make more sense?
If you have questions contact us today.
What is "Cooler Energy"?
“Cooler Energy” refers to the calm reserves of useful stamina that can result from replacing high starch grain based feed with lower starch components that provide concentrated useable energy. By limiting grain ingredients in the ration your horses digestive system can function in a more natural way. Horses are grazing animals that evolved to consume high fiber, low starch, roughage as their primary source of nutrition. Many natural plant food sources also provide a significant amount of naturally occurring vegetable fat that the horses system readily identifies and utilizes for energy. What a horse did not naturally eat, was a large amount of mature grain. We humans decided that was a good idea, not the horse.
High levels of grain in a feeding program alter the effectiveness of the digestive system with little benefit in return. Supplementing with high starch feeds can elevate blood glucose levels resulting in what we commonly recognize as “grain high” or nervous excitability. This type of “hot energy” is rarely beneficial to the horse or the rider. Additionally, grain based rations, when fed in significant amounts, may pass through the upper part of the digestive system undigested to ferment in the hind gut. The result is a new set of problems. Fermenting high starch grains can alter the environment that sustains a healthy population of beneficial bacteria. These beneficial bacteria are necessary in the hind gut, and assist in breaking down the roughage that a horse has eaten for efficient digestion. Proper digestion of roughage is the most natural utilization of available nutrition.
So, what do you do to provide additional useful energy when more is needed than that provided by the hay? The best answer is to provide an energy dense source of “Cooler Energy” with as little disruption to the natural function of the digestive system as possible. The Answer is Renew Gold™.
If you have questions contact us today.
Why is it that I can take so much grain out of my horse’s diet and get a better result with only one pound of Renew Gold™?
Renew Gold is formulated to support each part of your horse’s digestive system. While providing serious energy dense nutrition on its own, it also enables your horse to use its roughage source more completely. In diets that use large inclusions of feed, roughage digestion can be challenged. This can waste much of the nutrition that your horse should be getting from its fed hay. By giving your horse a better environment for digesting its roughage that nutrition can now be used. The result of this is more total digestible energy.
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Protein and the Total Nutritional Profile
How much additional protein to add to your horse’s diet is one of the most misunderstood topics that I encounter when discussing equine nutrition with horse owners. While most horse owners base the feed concentrate that they add to their horse’s roughage source (hay) on its protein level, many don’t really understand how that affects the total nutritional profile.
Understanding the percentage of protein in a feed supplement seems to be a very confusing issue. Do I feed a 10% instead a 12%, a 12% instead of a 15%? Let’s take a look.
Where protein is concerned, the considerations should be total protein added to the diet, what proteins are actually provided, and what you are trying to achieve. Renew Gold™ is 15% natural vegetable sourced protein. Is this too much if your horse seems to get along with a current product that is 10%, or 12%? Looking at the total amount that is contributed to the diet will give you a clearer picture of just what the true protein numbers are and what effect they will have on your horse.
One pound of Renew Gold provides 68 grams of quality, highly usable, vegetable-sourced protein. This would be a typical daily inclusion of Renew Gold in most horse’s diets.
One pound of a “Brand X”, you fill in the name, 10% protein grain-based feed concentrate provides 45 grams of protein. But, according to feed instructions typically found on their label, you will be told to feed four or five pounds, or more, of this product. If we take the lower number of four pounds, you are adding 180 grams of protein per day into your horse. Even if you only feed several pounds of a 10% feed, you are still adding almost 1/3 more total protein than you are with Renew Gold. As you can see, if you are concerned about too much total protein added in the diet, Renew Gold adds much less, even though the label guarantee per pound is higher.
If your goal in adding protein is meeting additional energy needs, we feel that there is a better way. Rather than rely on more added protein in your horses diet like most feed companies do, we designed Renew Gold to provide the type and amount of quality protein necessary in the diet to support tissue repair, healthy growth, and to help meet essential amino acid needs. Then, instead of more added protein as an energy source, Renew Gold provides additional cooler energy more efficiently by the inclusion of three sources of high quality, easily digestible natural vegetable fats. Additionally, Renew Gold’s digestive aid and light foot print in the system promotes an overall improvement of digestive efficiency.
Not relying on additional protein for energy support allows you to take high amounts of added feed out of the diet. Doing this has additional benefits. Less grain means lower total NSC numbers which, in turn, can lower colic risk, and moderate temperament. At the same time, Renew Gold supports a digestive system that can then function closer to how nature intended. Our goal in the end is better use of the roughage that your horse eats, improved efficiency and a consistent predictable energy level from one day to the next. All of this gives you a greater ability to adjust that energy level to your needs.
When you think about it, doesn’t this make more sense?
If you have questions contact us today.
What is "Cooler Energy"?
“Cooler Energy” refers to the calm reserves of useful stamina that can result from replacing high starch grain based feed with lower starch components that provide concentrated useable energy. By limiting grain ingredients in the ration your horses digestive system can function in a more natural way. Horses are grazing animals that evolved to consume high fiber, low starch, roughage as their primary source of nutrition. Many natural plant food sources also provide a significant amount of naturally occurring vegetable fat that the horses system readily identifies and utilizes for energy. What a horse did not naturally eat, was a large amount of mature grain. We humans decided that was a good idea, not the horse.
High levels of grain in a feeding program alter the effectiveness of the digestive system with little benefit in return. Supplementing with high starch feeds can elevate blood glucose levels resulting in what we commonly recognize as “grain high” or nervous excitability. This type of “hot energy” is rarely beneficial to the horse or the rider. Additionally, grain based rations, when fed in significant amounts, may pass through the upper part of the digestive system undigested to ferment in the hind gut. The result is a new set of problems. Fermenting high starch grains can alter the environment that sustains a healthy population of beneficial bacteria. These beneficial bacteria are necessary in the hind gut, and assist in breaking down the roughage that a horse has eaten for efficient digestion. Proper digestion of roughage is the most natural utilization of available nutrition.
So, what do you do to provide additional useful energy when more is needed than that provided by the hay? The best answer is to provide an energy dense source of “Cooler Energy” with as little disruption to the natural function of the digestive system as possible. The Answer is Renew Gold™.
If you have questions contact us today.
What makes Renew Gold™ unique?
By combining three different natural vegetable fat sources, along with an expanded amino acid profile, Renew Gold can improve the efficiency of your entire feeding program, while providing usable “Cooler Energy”. Renew Gold is also calcium / phosphorus balanced so that it can be fed with any type of hay.
Renew Gold™
What is Renew Gold™?
Renew Gold is a unique formulation of energy dense, low starch, premium quality ingredients designed to be fed at a rate of 1/2 pound to 1 1/2 pounds daily. Our goal is to limit or eliminate the use of high starch based ingredients in the overall feeding program. This can help to bring the entire digestive system into proper balance. Using a base of food grade Stabilized Rice Bran we fortify Renew Gold with CoolStance® coconut meal and Flax. Digestive efficiency is then enhanced with the addition of Fermented Yeast Culture. This offers horse owners the opportunity to utilize the well proven nutritional advantages of Stabilized Rice Bran in an even more effective, advanced formulation.
So why does Renew Gold work?
Renew Gold truly is sound science that helps build sound horses. The unique combination of three protein and fat sources and other premium quality ingredients allows Renew Gold to provide concentrated nutritional support for horses of all types and uses. Renew Gold can improve the efficiency of your entire feeding program, while providing usable “Cooler Energy”. Renew Gold is also calcium / phosphorus balanced so that it can be fed with any type of hay.
Renew Gold™ is Calcium/Phosphorus balanced and may be used with both grass and alfalfa hay. Feed only as directed. Not intended for use in animals other than horses.
As with any change to your horses feeding program, introduce Renew Gold™ gradually. Beginning with a 1/3 daily rate, increase to the full desired rate over a seven day period. Always provide your horse with a plentiful source of clean water. Check out Renew Gold Resources for additional information.
OUR GUARANTEE
Feed Renew Gold™ for six weeks. If you are not satisfied with the product, mail the bar code off the bag and proof of purchase to, The Phoenix Company LLC, P.O. Box 12, Willows CA 95988, for a refund of the purchase price. One bag refund per family.
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