Progressive Nutrition Foals First Starter & Creep
Foals First Starter & Creep is a highly digestible starter and creep feed for foals. It contains a combination of the highest quality milk ingredients with vitamins and chelated minerals to support optimal growth and development.
Features
- A flexible feed that can be offered free choice to:
- Nursing foals who are drinking milk from the mare
- Orphaned foals, in addition to FOALS FIRST Milk Replacer
- Foals who are orphaned at a later age or early-weaned foals, less than 4 months of age
- Nutritionally balanced and fortified to meet the specific demands of young growing foals
- Contains a combination of milk ingredients in an easy-to-feed pellet
- Foals grow and develop normally without digestive upsets
- Researched and proven
Directions
Situation 1) Nursing Foals up to 120 Days of Age
- If the foal is drinking from the mare, provide FOALS FIRST® – Starter & Creep free choice from 7 days of age, until the foal is 120 days old
- Typically nursing foals will consume about 1 pound of FOALS FIRST® – Starter & Creep per 100 lbs. of body weight daily
- The amount of Starter & Creep consumed will depend on the amount of milk produced by the nursing mare. Foals nursing mares who are not milking well, will eat more Starter & Creep per day
- At 120 days of age the foal should be transitioned to a Progressive Nutrition weanling diet
FEEDING PROGRAM FOR NURSING FOALS FROM 7 DAYS OLD TO WEANING
| Feeds to Use | Days of Age |
| FOALS FIRST® – Starter & Creep Pellet | From 7 – 120 days |
| Weanling Diet (Prem. Growth or ProAdvantage®) | Over 120 days |
- Step One: Foals orphaned before 14 days of age should be provided FOALS FIRST®– Milk Replacer (liquid) at recommended amounts, up to 60 days of age (Refer to the feeding directions for FOALS FIRST® – Milk Replacer ‘Powder’, for the amounts to feed per day)
- Step Two: After the foal is 7 days old, provide FOALS FIRST® – Starter & Creep free choice in addition to the FOALS FIRST® – Milk Replacer (liquid). Provide it until the foal is 120 days old
- At 120 days of age the foal should be transitioned to a Progressive Nutrition weanling diet
FEEDING PROGRAM FOR FOALS ORPHANED/REJECTED BEFORE 14 DAYS OF AGE
| Feeds to Use | Days of Age |
| FOALS FIRST® – Milk Replacer Powder (Liquid ) | From 1-60 days |
| FOALS FIRST® – Starter & Creep | From 3-120 days |
| Weanling Diet (Prem. Growth or ProAdvantage®) | Over 120 days |
- Foals orphaned between 14 and 60 days of age should first be fed FOALS FIRST® – Starter & Creep ‘Pellet’ free choice until 120 days of age.
- At 120 days of age the foal should be transitioned to a Progressive Nutrition weanling diet
FEEDING PROGRAM FOR FOALS ORPHANED/REJECTED AFTER 14 DAYS OF AGE
| Feeds to Use | Days of Age |
| FOALS FIRST® – Starter & Creep | From 14-120 days |
| Weanling Diet (Prem. Growth or ProAdvantage®) | Over 120 days |
Ingredients
Heat Processed Rolled Oats, Soybean Meal, Dried Whey, Distillers Dried Grains, Heat Processed Soybeans, Wheat Middlings, Yeast Culture, Calcium Carbonate, Dicalcium Phosphate, Salt, Soybean Oil, Flaxseed, Copper Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Zinc Proteinate, Calcium Iodate, Copper Chloride, Ferrous Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Vitamin A Acetate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin E Supplement, Vitamin B12Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Thiamine Hydrochloride, Niacin Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Folic Acid, d-Biotin, Ascorbic Acid, Sodium Selenite, Aluminum Calcium Silicate and Natural Flavors Added.
Guaranteed Analysis
Crude Protein Lysine Crude Fat Crude Fiber Calcium Phosphorus |
min min min max min min |
21.0% 1.4% 5.0% 3.5% 0.8% 0.7% |
max. 1.2% |
Copper Zinc Selenium Vitamin A Vitamin D Vitamin E |
min min min min min min |
30 ppm 140 ppm 0.3 ppm 8,000 IU/lb 800 IU/lb 140 IU/lb |