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Looking to make a batch of sweet feed whiskey. I have a Southern States store nearby and further out is the CFC Farm Home Center.

Southerns State only has a couple livestock feeds in their online catalog - a horse feed that contains 12 percent sweet feeds and a Sweet Goat Feed. Non ingredients listed.

The CFC has their own brand

CFC Equine Sweet-Feed
Ingredients: Barley, Corn, Wheat Midds, Soybean Hulls, Corn Gluten Feed, Oats, Molasses, Soybean Meal. Monocalcium Phosphate, Alfalfa Meal, Limestone, Yeast Culture, Lignin Sulfonate, Choline Chloride, Zinc Sulfate, Vitamin E Supplement, d-Alpha Tocopherol Acetate, Manganese Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Dried Kelp, Selenium Yeast, Zinc Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Niacin Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid, Sodium Selenite, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin Supplement, Vitamin A Acetate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Biotin, Menadione Sodium Bisulfate Complex, Ethylenediamine Dihydriodide, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Cobalt Sulfate, Salt, L-Lysine, Magnesium Oxide, Manganous Oxide, Zinc Oxide, Cobalt Carbonate, Potassium Sulfate, Potassium Iodide, Magnesium Sulfate, Calcium Pantothenate, Folic Acid, Defluorinated Phosphate and Linseed Meal.


Carmelid Sweet 14
INGREDIENTS Processed Grain By-Products, Grain Products, Roughage Products, Plant Protein Products, Calcium
Carbonate, Cane Molasses, Monocalcium Phosphate, Salt, Bentonite, Potassium Chloride, Vitamin A Acetate, Vitamin D3
Supplement, Vitamin E Supplement, Zinc Sulfate, Manganous Oxide, Copper Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Sodium Selenite,
Soybean Oil, Cobalt Carbonate, Ethylenediamine Dihydroiodide, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex, Riboflavin Supplement,
d-Calcium Pantothenate, Niacin Supplement, Sodium Molybdate, Dried Aspergillus oryzae Fermentation Extract,
Zinc Amino Acid Complex, Copper Amino Acid Complex, Manganese Amino Acid Complex, Cobalt Glucoheptonate,
Thiamine Mononitrate, Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus Fermentation Product, Dried Lactobacillus
Plantarum Fermentation Product, Dried Lactobacillus Brevis Fermentation Product, Dried Bacillus Subtilis
Fermentation Product, Dried Trichoderma Longibrachiatum Fermentation Extract, Vegetable and Animal Fat reserved
by BHT),Manganese Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Folic Acid, d-Biotin, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride.

The Tribute brand seems to be high fat with a focus on low sugar for mature horses and comes in pellets.

Is there a brand or supplier that people have good results with?

others have discussed using Producer's pride all grain mix from TSC

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it is in a purple bag

stay away from the ones with alfalfa in it

Pretty simple and explained in the sweetfeed recipe thread. Get an all grain sweetfeed. Without pellets.

I Agree with Prarie, Get "COB mix" (corn oats barley) many of them are sprayed with molasses, or you can just add molasses to your batch.

Guess Im one of the lucky ones that lives about 2 miles from a horse race track. They have an on-site feed mill and thats where I went to get my sweet feed. They sell 2 kinds of all natural grain sweet feeds, 1 is what they call dry and 1 they call wet, I bought the wet. Its got alot of molasses in it and is very very sticky. Makes some really tasty hooch.

i use the Pacer brand I got from BLUE SEAL. Good stuff.

Thanks for the lead on Tractor supply!

I found a Tractor supply store about 30 minuters from where I work.

Their website lists the types of feed they carry in detail:

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The bag says 10 percent all grain (wonder what the rest is) but the product description sounds like what I am looking for:
Producer's Pride® All Grain Feed is a wholesome mixture of corn, oats and barley with just a touch of molasses for that sweet "granola" flavor. It is designed as an energy source for mature maintenance or lightly-worked horses, cattle, goats, and sheep on good quality forage and a vitamin/mineral supplement.

Saved me the legwork of driving out an hour to the other places only to find they have pellets with alfalfa, seaweed, and fishmeal or whatnot that I do not need.

With all the rural areas turning into McMansions and condos, it is not easy for me to simply go down the street and spend the day browsing around until I can find a place that has whole grain horse feed. The nearest "feed store" to me no long carries livestock feed. Only dog and cat food. Another place went out of business and the building is still there with the signage, but it's empty and up for lease. Called up the pet food place and they said "Yea we have all kinds" only to be disappointed when their stuff was all pellets mixed with who knows what - and none of it was for livestock.

Thanks for giving me the specific brand so I could search it out online and not have to drive hours out and end up disappointed.

The Pacer brand does indeed have the COB mix that I was looking for.

BillHoo wrote:The bag says 10 percent all grain (wonder what the rest is) ...

I'm pretty sure that 10% is the amount of protein in it.

midnightmaraude wrote:i use the Pacer brand I got from BLUE SEAL. Good stuff.

I tried Pacer with mixed results. it was good for a couple generations and then the taste seemed to change. I was worried about the vegetable oil in it. Can the oil accumulate and change the taste or something?