RE: [RC] Never did I think my innocent question about beet pulppellets - Maryben Stover
I will probably take a lot of heat for my opinion but I don't see the problem with "dust" or "sticks" in the shredded beet pulp. If you have horses out in big pastures like I do they get into all sorts of stuff. They can sort out what they don't want. Those of you who have carefully mashed 3 little bute tablets into a powder and mixed it with 5 lbs of sweet feed and come back to a feed pan empty of the tinest morsal of grain with a neat little pile of white powder in the center know what I mean. There are thistles, burrs, trees and all sorts of grassy stuff in a big pasture. And some of the hay bales have foreign stuff in it, bird wings, magazines, and all sorts of stuff, especially if it was a row near the road that was baled.
I also don't necessarily feel the need to soak beet pulp. It is a fine forage without soaking. When I do put water in it, for the old horses that need a mash, I just leave it for about 5 minutes and it is fine.
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> Subject: [RC] Never did I think my innocent question about beet pulp pellets > To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > From: Sheila_Larsen@xxxxxxx > Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 13:17:05 -0800 > > > would start quite the conversation, but hey I shoulda known it is Ridecamp > after all. Actually I have found most of it pretty interesting. But now > from my experience this is what I have learned. One scoop of beet pulp > pellets is waaaaaayyyyy more than one scoop of shreds. It would have been > helpful if my tractor had been working to drag the one scoop of soaked > pellets into the stall otherwise I wouldn't have thrown my back out > lifting the bucket (just kidding - almost). If you want to soften the > pellets, it takes waaaaaaayyyyy more time than 30 minutes with cold water > to soften them. 30 minutes doesn't make a dent in my pellets, they are > like rock. I soak them because they really are unbelievably hard. I > "think" my horse prefers shreds to pellets. I like the lack of dust. I > don't like having to take the time to pour water on them in the morning, it > takes two more minutes in the morning than I have LOLOL. > > Again, thank you all for the interesting information/conversations and > advice that I have been given. > > > O, for a morning in May... filled with the beauty of horses, soft with > light of heaven. – Author unknown > > > > F'^q���Ƭz��q� wn���x��i��0��ݺ��q��ߢ���*'>�bs ��Z�g���i��0��ݺ��q��bu����n�+���R{.n�+������ 0zwn���zw����yƦ��h��ڲ�bu���u�y&�
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