Ok gang, I want to know about all of you who feed pelleted feed.  I am switching to pellets and slowly getting rid of the costly grass hay.  I am tires of paying for premium hay and having them slip in a few moldy ones to the batch (especially for $12 a bale)

So...

What brand of pellets do you feed?

What kind of mix are they (alfalfa, burmuda, mix, ...)?

Why do you feed pellets?

Thanks for your input!

Thanks for your input!  I have used Strategy too, and really liked it. I am using it right now for a supplemental feed along with the forage of burmuda/alfalfa pellets.  I am soaking them and also adding flax seed to the mix.

I use Safe Choice, which is a Nutrena feed and Alfalfa Oat Pellets, which comes from Tucker Milling.  When I first got Ginger she was just on hay and some pasture when she got turned out (she was boarded).  When we moved back to Alabama, she was on hay and a whole lot more greener grass.  Well, she foundered with the spring grasses. I moved her to another barn and the vet put her on Alfalfa cubes, we turned her shoes around, and I gave her a biotin hoof supplement.  That seemed to work really well.  I went to a Purina Horse Owners Workshop and the Purina lady suggested Equine Sr, because of it's Biotin and it is a complete feed.  She was on that until she and Cookie(who has been on hay and pasture), were moved to a barn owned by a lady I work with.  She had her show horses on Safe Choice and the alfalfa oat pellets and they did really well on that and it was a whole lot cheaper than the Purina feed.  We got Chocolate in August for Amanda's birthday.  He's 19 and we put him right on those feeds.  So far, I have found that those 2 feeds seem to do a really good job.  There isn't any hay where they are now, but they are feed twice a day and have a good pasture.  Since Ginger foundered, sweet feed is out of the question.  I don't want that to happen again.  I know her chances of laminitis are higher now, but hopefully with the biotin thats in her feed and the Hooflex, the odds will be lower.  Well, hope all this info and life story helped a little. 

That is quite a story.  How long was ginger affected by the founder?  

I am still feeding alfalfa/ burmuda pellets with strategy and flax seed.  The horses seem to be doing fine.  They get pasture for about 8 hours a day.

Her founder only lasted probably about 2 or 3 months.  I think thats how long she had to wear her shoes backwards.  She got over it really fast I think, but I believe I owe it to the owners of the other barn I moved her too.  I moved her because I was going to work for them cleaning stalls and my board was going to be free.  I went to pick her up from the first one she was at and I was totally shocked at what I saw.  Founder was something I had never even heard of, let alone seeing what affect it had on a horse.  When I went to the pasture to get her, she could hardly walk.  I guess it took about 10 minutes for her to go a few hundred feet.  I was balling the whole way to the new place.  It must have just started, because when we got there she seemed to be ok.  The next morning the barn owner called me and told me that she thought she had foundered.  I called the vet out and he confirmed and put her on Bute tabs for her pain and the alfalfa feed.  I guess we caught it in time before it got out of control and rotated her coffin bone.  I think turning her shoes around helped a lot too.  So, luckily it didn't last long and so far so good.