Feed Purina Stategy? Recall Alert!

Purina Mills Undertakes Limited Recall of Strategy® Horse Feed and Layena® Poultry Feed


Contact:
Jeanne Forbis: 651-481-2071 or 612-308-5441
David Karpinski: 651-481-2360



Products Distributed in Mississippi, Arkansas, Kentucky,Tennessee, Alabama, Indiana, Missouri and Virginia

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- St. Louis, Mo., April 16, 2010 -- Purina Mills, LLC, is voluntarily recalling two specific lots of 50-pound bags of Strategy® Professional Formula GX horse feed and one lot of Layena® SunFresh® Recipe Pellet poultry feed. The recall is being implemented due to the discovery of metal fragments in a limited number of bags from one of the Strategy® product lots. At the time the recall was issued, five customer complaints had been received. No animal health issues had been reported.

The products being recalled were manufactured in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 24-25, 2010. They were shipped to retailers and dealers in Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Missouri and Virginia.

Only the following specific products and lot numbers are involved in the recall:

Formula No.
Item No.
Description
Lot Number

35SS
0066547
Strategy® Professional Formula GX
0MAR24NST1A1

35SS
0066547
Strategy® Professional Formula GX
0MAR24NST2A1

61R3
0056922
Layena® SunFresh® Recipe Pellet
0MAR25NST2A1





The lot number is found on the sewing strip of each bag and is interpreted as follows:
0=Year / MAR=Month / 24=Day of Month / NST1A1=Plant Code.

Customers with products that do not have the specified lot numbers are not affected by the recall.

Customers who have purchased the recalled products should not store or feed the products and are asked to return unused product to their dealer for replacement.

Customer questions or concerns may be directed to the company's Nashville Customer Service Office at 800-424-5234.

CyroTherapy

Do you use ice in the course of caring for your horse? If so, you are already employing cyrotherapy (or Cold Therapy) in your bag of tricks. Here is an interesting article presented by ICE HORSE (no affiliation, just an interesting resource) about the risks and benefits of cold therapy with horses.

Cold Therapy in the Horse

Awesome Day

We had a beautiful sunny, cool day here. I took advantage of that weather to take a trail ride. Yeager was an absolute super star. We did some hills, saw two herds of deer, and put a toe in the lake (he's generally very suspicious of water). Super steady guy on the trail. The only bump we had was in trying to cross a small ditch that had water in it. We need another horse to go out with that we can follow. I might try and tag along on a few of the trail rides that the barn takes just to have him follow some horses that don't hesitate to cross puddles and such.

After our trail ride, we went for a little walk around the big upper arena. Except for spooking at a barrel that had been knocked over, he did very well. He's getting much better at moving away from leg pressure instead of leaning into. I also got a few moments of contact. I'm thrilled with where he is right now.

Post ride, Yeager was introduced to his new turnout buddies and pasture. I think this is going to be a great move for him. He had a really funny reaction to his new mini buddy. Everything went very smoothly.

Another first!

Yeager had one very exciting (at least to me) first today- his first trail ride! It ended up being a short hack down the road, but he was a superstar. Looked at a couple things, had to stop and evaluate the cobblestones at the road crossing, but other than that he just cruised along. I found a perfect hill for slow hill work- a flat dirt road with a gentle (but definite) grade. There is a road that winds around a lake just behind the barn. While I will have to be mindful of car traffic and probably some cyclists, I bet this will be a favorite conditioning hack. I was so very pleased with my discovery since some straight line work is exactly what Yeager needs.

We also cantered undersaddle for the first time, to my absolute delight. We've been working on walk-trot transitions and he offered me a wonderful, slow rolling canter. He has a remarkable whoa on him for an OTTB, but does a fair imitation of a giraffe at the trot. His balance is slowly improving. He does seem to be very sensitive to footing issues. On our hack, the trot he offered going up hill was much more balanced and forward than the one he offers in the ring. I think a good bit of the next month is going to be spent OUT of the ring, getting him straight. I believe that's the most productive program for a young horse anyway.

Every ride, I get more and more excited about this horse.

The rest of this week looks like:
Tues- walk/turnout
Wed- lunge in side reins (farrier)
Thurs- light hack
Fri- hack working on transitions
Sat- free jumping
Sun- turnout/off

Spring Sunshine!

There has been so much sunshine this week, I haven't been blogging. It's been challenging to keep my nose to the grindstone for my nutrition and training classes. It has been a joy to spend afternoons at the barn. The long weekend meant that Kevin and the monkey were able to spend some time out there as well.

Yeager has been making tremendous progress. He is starting to really bloom. His ground manners are becoming more consistent.

Today, we did an actual undersaddle workout. Walk and trot work. Bending is definitely going to be a challenge for him. I need work on that from the ground some more. I think I am going to switch him from the loose ring french link bit he is currently going in to a full cheek french link to see if that helps him a little understanding the rein aids. His down transitions area really spot on. His walk-trot transitions were very good today. I introduced ground poles at the walk today. Just two spaced a full stride apart.

After about 15 minutes undersaddle (walk and trot both directions and the ground poles going in both directions), we went outside the ring for a quick walk around the grassy area between the outdoor and indoor arenas. He wanted to dive bomb the grass and was a little look-y but did well.

He definitely has a mind of his own. I stopped at one point next to where my audience was sitting to chat for a moment. Every lap of the ring after, Yeager tried to stop at that spot.

Great morning

We had a gorgeous sunny morning today, perfect barn weather. It's supposed to be quite warm today so it seemed like a good day for an early morning. Yeager did fabulous in turnout this morning. He had his breakfast out in the paddock. More impressively, he became excited when a mare and foal were turned out next to him (the foal always excites him) but calmed down on his own. After breakfast, we did a 30 minute lunge workout in side reins on the fourth ring- which is the most contact he's worked with so far. His canter is improving every week. He can now hold a rhythmic canter for two+ laps. He was a little strong and excitable going to the right but settled down and worked. There was no wild running around, even after two days off.

A VERY successful morning.

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I'm pretty pleased with Yeager's condition right now. I'd like to get a little more muscle on him, but that will come with time and work :)

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