Find out what your horse is actually eating — versus what you think they're eating.
Seven checks. Thirty minutes in your feed room. Most owners find at least two things they didn't expect.
21 pages. Written by a certified equine nutritionist.
Free to download.
Walk through your feed room with a nutritionist.
Most horses are fed by habit, not by design. Even careful owners are usually feeding what they were taught to feed by whoever sold them the last bag, with adjustments made by feel over time. The result is that almost every feed room — even ones run by experienced, conscientious owners — has two or three things in it that are wrong. Not because the owner is careless. Because nobody ever sat down with them and walked through it.
This guide is that walkthrough.
The seven checks
Weigh your scoop
Find out how much you're actually feeding versus how much you think you're feeding. (Most owners discover they're overfeeding concentrate by 30-50%.)
Read every tag, together
Identify supplement stacking conflicts that are costing you money or, in some cases, putting your horse at real risk.
The forage question
The single biggest blind spot in equine nutrition. Hay is 50-80% of your horse's diet, and almost nobody knows what's in theirs.
Water
The cheapest, most overlooked input in your entire feed program. Often the silent driver of colic risk.
Storage and freshness
Nutrition you can't deliver doesn't count. Find out which supplements have quietly stopped working.
Feeding schedule and order
When and how you feed matters almost as much as what you feed. Where ulcers live.
What you don't see
The invisible part of the diet. Pasture, treats, and the silent caloric drift that explains weight changes you can't otherwise account for.
“If you've been giving your horse ‘two scoops twice a day’ because that's what the previous owner did — there's a real chance you're feeding 40-50% more than the bag actually calls for. The scoop is lying to you.”
Who wrote this
Montana Lowden is a certified equine nutritionist and lifelong horsewoman. She grew up on a quarter horse ranch, qualified for the AQHA Quarter Horse World Show four times, and now runs Pure Horse — the first platform that connects what a horse eats to how a horse performs.
She wrote the Feed Room Audit because she kept having the same conversations with horse owners. “Two scoops twice a day. The barn manager said so. I think it's working — my horse seems fine.” Then she'd walk into the feed room with them, and within thirty minutes, they'd find three things they'd been doing wrong for years.
This guide is what she'd do if she could walk into every feed room in person.
What most owners discover when they run this audit
You'll probably find at least one of these. Most owners find two or three.
- You're overfeeding concentrate by 30-50% — and your horse's weight, behavior, or manure may be quietly telling you so.
- Your supplement program has overlapping or conflicting ingredients — costing you $80-200 a month for nothing, or in rare cases doing real harm.
- You have no idea what's actually in your hay — even though it's the biggest part of your horse's diet by far.
- Your supplements are sitting on a shelf delivering a fraction of their labeled potency — open longer than they should be, stored in the wrong conditions.
- Your overnight feeding gap is creating ulcer risk you didn't know about.
- You're losing track of pasture, treats, and the other “invisible” calories that explain weight changes you can't account for.
The audit isn't designed to confirm that you're doing everything correctly. It's designed to find the things you aren't, so you can fix them.
Run the audit. See what you find.
You'll get the PDF in your inbox within a few minutes of submitting your email. The audit takes about thirty minutes to run, and almost everyone finishes it feeding their horse better than they did the day before — for the same money or less.
After you download it, I'll check in to see what you found. I read every email that comes in.
— Montana
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