Milk Replacer and Starter Feed Options for Foals and Lambs
Jan 14, 2025
Joel Edge
Purina® Sales Specialist
AS WE PREPARE for the birth of foals and lambs, it’s critical to supply mothers with the best products to ensure ample energy for delivery. Let’s review some options!
MARES AND FOALS
When mixed with water, Purina Mare’s Match® helps mimic actual mare’s milk. Getting foals started immediately on the mare’s colostrum is crucial. Mare’s Match powder is highly digestible and provides balanced nutrition for proper growth and development until foals can digest and eat a complete feed, such as Ultium® Growth.
Mare’s Match is also helpful when mares lack milk flow. Many horse breeders supplement foals to ensure adequate fat and protein for early development.
Ultium Growth is a premier complete feed for mares and foals that’s especially good leading up to foaling. It’s very dense in protein and fat levels; the fat is actually milk-based and supports early growth and body condition. Foals show substantial growth when they eat Purina Ultium Growth with the mares or as a creep feed.
We also recommend these Purina feeds for young foals: Impact® Mare and Foal, Omolene® #300 and Strategy® GX.
LAMBS
Land O’Lakes® Ultra Fresh® Lamb Milk Replacer is a very palatable milk replacer formulated to support gut health, strong immunity, feed intake and fatty acids for lamb growth. Ultra Fresh also includes essential oils to optimize digestibility and nutrient absorption. This product exceeds the competition in its ability to increase intakes for carbohydrates for proper absorption in baby lambs, which is crucial for early development.
We also recommend Purina Delta Lamb and Ewe, a complete feed that’s very helpful when getting lambs started on feed. It also supports extra body condition in ewes, which is helpful during lactation and breed back. Lambs learn to eat with their mothers, so this product is fed with lambs at their side.
Key Cooperative also offers several superior Purina lamb creep feeds for commercial and show lamb producers.
Contact a member of the Key Lifestyle Feed Team to review options for your animals:
Kelcie Carpenter | Key Cooperative, Gilbert Feed Sales | 515-520-1962
Jim Hawkins | Lifestyle Feed Sales | 641-990-8964
Joel Edge | Purina Sales Specialist | 319-331-3667
Purina® Sales Specialist
AS WE PREPARE for the birth of foals and lambs, it’s critical to supply mothers with the best products to ensure ample energy for delivery. Let’s review some options!
MARES AND FOALS
When mixed with water, Purina Mare’s Match® helps mimic actual mare’s milk. Getting foals started immediately on the mare’s colostrum is crucial. Mare’s Match powder is highly digestible and provides balanced nutrition for proper growth and development until foals can digest and eat a complete feed, such as Ultium® Growth.
Mare’s Match is also helpful when mares lack milk flow. Many horse breeders supplement foals to ensure adequate fat and protein for early development.
Ultium Growth is a premier complete feed for mares and foals that’s especially good leading up to foaling. It’s very dense in protein and fat levels; the fat is actually milk-based and supports early growth and body condition. Foals show substantial growth when they eat Purina Ultium Growth with the mares or as a creep feed.
We also recommend these Purina feeds for young foals: Impact® Mare and Foal, Omolene® #300 and Strategy® GX.
LAMBS
Land O’Lakes® Ultra Fresh® Lamb Milk Replacer is a very palatable milk replacer formulated to support gut health, strong immunity, feed intake and fatty acids for lamb growth. Ultra Fresh also includes essential oils to optimize digestibility and nutrient absorption. This product exceeds the competition in its ability to increase intakes for carbohydrates for proper absorption in baby lambs, which is crucial for early development.
We also recommend Purina Delta Lamb and Ewe, a complete feed that’s very helpful when getting lambs started on feed. It also supports extra body condition in ewes, which is helpful during lactation and breed back. Lambs learn to eat with their mothers, so this product is fed with lambs at their side.
Key Cooperative also offers several superior Purina lamb creep feeds for commercial and show lamb producers.
Contact a member of the Key Lifestyle Feed Team to review options for your animals:
Kelcie Carpenter | Key Cooperative, Gilbert Feed Sales | 515-520-1962
Jim Hawkins | Lifestyle Feed Sales | 641-990-8964
Joel Edge | Purina Sales Specialist | 319-331-3667