Re: Beet Pulp

["Susan Evans Garlinghouse" <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>]

My guess would be if more than two pounds of beet pulp is causing diarrhea,
it's an individual thing, not something to be necessarily expected in any
other horse.  I have countless folks feeding a whole bunch of beet pulp
(including one of my own who gets eight pounds a day) with no problems.

Two pounds is not going to cause enormous weight gain---after all, two
pounds of beet pulp is equivalent in energy to just a little more than a
pound of oats, and that's just not a huge amount of calories in the big
scheme of things. :-)

Susan Garlinghouse
-----Original Message-----
From: Endure4fun@aol.com <Endure4fun@aol.com>
To: ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 9:54 AM
Subject: RC: Beet Pulp


>There is One thing you have to be careful when feeding beet pulp.  If you
give
>to much it causes diarrhea!  I think 2 pounds dry, soaked is enough.  I
have
>been feeding it to my gelding and if I don't be careful he gets the "runs"
and
>thats something you don't want as it is taking water out of them.  It has
not
>helped him weight wise.  If you use the shredded be sure to soak for a long
>time as it is slow in soaking up the water.  It hasn't helped my horse put
on
>weight but have heard from other people that it has helped.
>Keri
>
>
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