Re: Re: Nutrition questions (rice bran, soy, etc.)

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

BTW, if anyone is interested, I just posted a rather long article on beet
pulp (also an edited one on rice bran) onto my website at:

http://shady-acres.com/susan/

that should cover anything and everything about beet pulp.  There are also a
few other articles on there about a few different nutrition things.

Susan G
-----Original Message-----
From: Maggie Mieske <mmieske@netonecom.net>
To: Susan Evans Garlinghouse <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>
Cc: ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>; Heidi Sowards
<ribbitttreefrog@yahoo.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 7:23 PM
Subject: RC: Re: Nutrition questions (rice bran, soy, etc.)


>I agree with Susan...your program sounds similar to ours with the beet
>pulp and oil, grass hay (when there's no pasture) and some grain.  I
>tend to increase oil before increasing grain and my gelding, when he's
>working hard gets up to 3 cups a day.  I am constantly fiddling with the
>diet to accomodate work load, weight (he's actually almost too pudgy
>compared to how lean he was last year), etc.  One thing I wished to add
>to Susan's admonition about not believing the old wives' tales was not
>to let people tell you that beet pulp is going to make your horse's
>choke... or their stomach swell up and colic... I have had a couple of
>"chokers" this year.  I worried slightly about the beet pulp being the
>culprit (I had fed it dry) but discovered that since they had all been
>turned out to pasture and I was only feeding them intermittently in tubs
>in the pasture for a treat and some added vitamins, the two lowest in
>the pecking order were rushing and bolting their feed...when I fed only
>grain without the beet pulp, I STILL had one bolting who choked.  So,
>they come in when they're fed all the time and no choking!  Good luck
>and give the probiotics a try.  In the last 6 months I have seen some
>ugly ducklings turn into some beautiful swans and I give all the credit
>to beet pulp, oil and probiotics...no matter what kind of probiotic.
>Maggie
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