TrueGlo Turbo Shag
Hair has a start date.
The last sixty days. Melatonin, on the clock. For exhibition swine.
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Description
Everybody does hair the same way, and the order is backwards
Get close to the show. Take a good look at him. Decide he needs more hair. Go buy something.
That instinct is correct for almost every other problem in a barn. Something looks wrong, you go fix it.
For hair it runs backwards. By the time you can look at him and see that he needs it, the window you needed is already closing.
Nobody told you that. It is not on a feed tag and it does not come up at jackpots.
More is not more
Melatonin works through receptors on the hair follicle. Those receptors go quiet after about 80 to 90 days.
The ceiling is in the pig, not in the bag.
You cannot get more hair by feeding longer, and feeding past the window puts at risk the hair you spent all that time building. Push it too long and you risk him shucking.
Nearly everything else you feed is a dial. Want more, feed more. This one is not a dial. It is a window, it opens once, and the calendar decides whether you were in it.
Most people only know about one of them
Sixty days out from your target show. You move him off TrueGlo Turbo and onto Turbo Shag. That is the date most show families have heard.
Eighty days out. This is the one almost nobody knows. Go look at him. If his hair is already long and older, force him to shuck before you start the Shag.
The natural hair cycle has already spent part of your window. Start Shag on old hair and the receptors go quiet partway through, and you risk him shucking at the worst possible time.
Reset the clock before you start burning it.
Twenty days separate those two dates. The first one is a purchase. The second one is just going out to the barn and looking, and it costs you nothing.
Once you start, do not stop and do not run out
Skip feedings and the receptors are not stimulated. He shucks.
This is the one product we make where running out halfway through can leave you worse off than never starting at all. We would rather tell you that in advance than have you find out ten days before your target show.
It is also the honest reason the subscription exists on this product. On most things an autoship is a convenience. Here it is the answer to “do not run out,” and it takes 10% off, which brings it to $137.40.
And almost nobody is feeding one pig. Two pigs empty this bag in about forty days, against a sixty day window. Work that out on your own barn before you order rather than after.
Turbo, plus the hair push
Turbo Shag is TrueGlo Turbo’s formula with one thing added. Not a different product built from scratch.
Everything Turbo does, unchanged. The PreVent gut base, our patented immune modulator, US Patent 11,844,810, fed to more than twelve million head, plus the probiotics, prebiotics and postbiotics that keep him on feed. If they do not eat you cannot compete, and that work does not stop just because you switched bags.
There is a third thing in that base worth naming. Glycerol monolaurate, which supports a healthy gut microbiome, helps hold down the inflammatory load a stressed pig is carrying, and supports immune function.
There is also glutamine, which comes from fermentation biomass. Glutamine is the fuel the cells lining the gut actually run on, and a gut under stress is a gut spending it faster than usual. That is exactly the stretch this bag is built for.
PreVent sharpens the immune response itself. Glycerol monolaurate works on the environment that response is happening in. Two different jobs in the same animal.
The body temperature reduction technology, unchanged. Our own and proprietary, three ingredients working in combination. It increases blood flow to the skin, and the follicle sits in that same blood supply.
Then the melatonin, which stimulates the follicle to push hair.
So the hair argument on this bag is not one ingredient doing one thing. It is blood flow to the follicle and a signal telling the follicle to go, on top of a gut that is keeping him eating. Plus omega fatty acids, zinc at 1,840 ppm and vitamin E at 30 IU per pound, which are what skin and hair are actually built out of.
Somebody had to measure it
Putting melatonin in a bag is the easy part. Anybody can do that.
Knowing how much of it a pig needs is the part that took the work, and there was nowhere to look it up.
So we ran the trial ourselves. We measured hair on pigs, week after week, at different doses, until we could see which one actually grew hair on a pig.
The answer was not the steer answer.
A pig is not a small steer, and the dose that works on one is not the dose that works on the other.
That number is what is in this bag. It is not a guess, and it is not borrowed from another species.
Two customers, and the first one tells on himself
“Great service from Doc and the gang!!! The shipping is quick and they are always happy to discuss your animals and how to get them to there best potential. Started the Shag product a little later than I should have but, I’m seeing significant hair growth. Thanks Doc”
Mike Hill, January, verified customer
Read that middle sentence again, because it is the most useful thing on this page. He started late. He said so. He got hair anyway.
If you are reading this inside your own sixty days, that is your answer. Late beats not at all. Start him today rather than deciding you have missed it.
“Great product! I’ve already seen crazy improvement with my barrow’s hair and he loves the taste too. Doc has been a great help as well!”
Addie Corey, March, verified customer
Turbo at the beginning, Shag at the end
The customers who do best with this line feed Turbo from the day the pig comes home, carrying him through the growing and through the heat, and then switch to Turbo Shag for the last sixty days, when hair is what is left to gain.
One bag of Turbo runs about eighty days. One bag of Shag runs about eighty days and you feed it for sixty. So one bag of each covers a project of about a hundred and forty days, with the Shag bag carrying about three weeks of margin on the end of it.
Given that the rule on this bag is do not run out, that margin is the point.
Which TrueGlo bag is yours
All four run the same appetite and gut base. What changes is what is added on top of it.
TrueGlo. The base on its own: appetite and gut.
If that is the whole of what you need, and for a lot of people it is, this bag is perfectly good and it is the cheapest of the four to run.
Pigs, cattle, sheep and goats
5.25 lb · about 132 days for a pig, lamb or goat · about 33 days for a steer
TrueGlo CR. The base plus chromium propionate.
Chromium is the mineral that decides whether the feed he eats turns into muscle or into cover. This is the bag for the animal who eats plenty and does not do much with it.
Pigs and cattle
6 lb · about 151 days for a pig · about 37 days for a steer
TrueGlo Turbo. The base plus body temperature reduction plus skin and hair.
Three jobs. This is the bag for a show pig going through a summer, and it is what you feed from the day he comes home.
Exhibition swine
10 lb · about 80 days for one pig
TrueGlo Turbo Shag. Turbo plus a melatonin hair push.
For the last stretch only. Start it 60 days out from your target show. Turbo itself is melatonin free, and that is the difference between the two bags.
Exhibition swine
10 lb · about 80 days for one pig · fed the last 60 days
CR and Turbo are not steps on a ladder. They answer different second questions. CR is about where the feed goes once he has eaten it. Turbo is about carrying him through the heat and putting hair on him. Pick the one that matches the problem you actually have.
One 60 mL scoop per feeding, twice a day
Top dress it right on the ration. The scoop is in the bag and one level scoop is the dose.
Start sixty days out from your target show, switching off TrueGlo Turbo. Do not feed it longer than the window.
How many bags the window takes
A 10 pound bag runs about 80 days for one pig. That is about $1.91 a head per day, and the per head cost does not change no matter how many you are feeding.
What changes is how fast the bag goes. Nobody feeds one pig, so the number that matters is not how long a bag lasts, it is how long a bag lasts in your barn.
| Pigs on it | One bag lasts | The sixty day window takes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | about 80 days | 1 bag |
| 2 | about 40 days | 2 bags |
| 3 | about 27 days | 3 bags |
| 4 | about 20 days | 3 bags |
Work that out before you order. Running short in the middle of the window is the one mistake this product actually punishes, and it is an easy one to make if you bought for one pig and are feeding three.
On the subscription. Ten percent off at $137.40. On this product the autoship is not a convenience, it is the answer to the do not run out rule, and it is sized for the way people actually feed.
Turbo Shag is for exhibition swine. The other species in your barn are covered by TrueGlo.
Label warning: do not feed to lactating dairy animals.
What else customers say
Verbatim from the review tab on this page. The first one is the program, described by a customer who ran it.
“I have been a TrueGlo fan for years, but the TrueGlo Turbo product in the beginning stages of feeding and finishing off with the Shag is phenomenal. As always the ease of ordering and receiving products from True North is second to none.”
Cory P
“This product has been a game changer for our show pigs it keeps them on feed and keeps the hair looking great!”
Stacy A
“I placed an order and doc called me to talk about the order, changed a few things last minutes, issued a refund for the difference and still shipped the same day. Great product & People!”
Lee J
Doc will make it right.
If you are not satisfied, let us know. You will not have to ship anything back.
That is the whole policy.
The craft stays yours
Turbo Shag does not feed him for you and it does not drive him. It puts the hair on the clock you are already counting down, so that his hair is still coming the week everybody else’s quits.
Straight answers
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Additional information
| Weight | 11 lbs |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 18 × 12 × 6 in |









Adam Z –
Adam Z
5 Stars
James S –
James S
5 Stars
Lee J –
Lee J
5 Stars
I placed an order and doc called me to talk about the order, changed a few things last minutes, issued a refund for the difference and still shipped the same day. Great product & People!
April M –
April M
5 Stars
Always the best customer service and prompt shipping. The products are amazing!
Philip K –
Philip K
5 Stars
Michelle W –
Michelle W
5 Stars
Stacy A –
Stacy A
5 Stars
This product has been a game changer for our show pigs it keeps them on feed and keeps the hair looking great!
Bob G –
Bob G
1 Star
Stop running monthly gimmicks if you want to encourage sales offer volume discounts. Pretty disappointing to order $700 worth of product at the end of a month then receive notice the same order would have been $80 less just a few days later.
True North Technologies –
We’re sorry that the monthly discount the month after you ordered was different than the month your order was processed. We always offer free shipping on orders over $300.
Nick M –
Nick M
5 Stars
Odering process was super easy. They had the products shipped and at my door in less than a week. My bottle of Provilli leaked during shipment and David had a replacement bottle with the lost amount in the mail the next day. I will placing another order soon. Thank you
BRYAN S –
BRYAN S
5 Stars
Megan M –
Megan M
5 Stars
Cory P –
Cory P
5 Stars
I have been a TrueGlo fan for years, but the TrueGlo Turbo product in the beginning stages of feeding and finishing off with the Shag is phenomenal. As always the ease of ordering and receiving products from True North is second to none.
Mike Hill (verified owner) –
Great service from Doc and the gang!!! The shipping is quick and they are always happy to discuss your animals and how to get them to there best potential. Started the Shag product a little later than I should have but, I’m seeing significant hair growth. Thanks Doc
Addie Corey (verified owner) –
Great product! I’ve already seen crazy improvement with my barrow’s hair and he loves the taste too. Doc has been a great help as well!