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Re: soy free feed

Hello Heidi and Lynda,

Many feeds contain soybean hulls, which are the fibrous portion of the soybean, but do not contain actual soybean meal. These include:

Blue Seal Feeds
Platform feeds
Seminole Feeds
Triple Crown Feeds

Many companies, such as Nutrena, Purina, Poulin, and Pennfield do not list their ingredients on line, so if you have these feeds in your local feed store, you can examine the feed tag.

I'm not sure why you're wanting to avoid soy, since soy is a highly nutritious legume, and as such, it complements other protein sources to produce a high quality protein. Soybeans in these feeds are heat processed to destroy the trypsin inhibitor found in raw soybeans.

I hope this is helpful.

All the best,

Dr. Getty

Where are you from? Bayfield, CO