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vic_s · Joined: 23 Oct 2009 Posts: 57 Location: cheshire

What type of unmollased sugar beet do people use?
I tried Speedi beet but it made my mares feet go flat. Have many tried the Allen and page fast fibre and is it any good? Just playing around with feed at the moment so that I can get some weight on my horse before winter properly comes Sad

horsesfirst · Joined: 08 Nov 2008 Posts: 486 Location: kent

I use Kwikbeet - I think it is the lowest sugar of the lot at 3% and has no added anything. It is a cooked product so soaks really fast.

Manufacturer also does uncooked version - shreds which are a grey colour. Also 3% but take longer to soak. Some people prefer the shreds because they are uncooked. But my ned is not keen.

SueH · Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 12:51 pm Post subject:

I am thinking about the same subject.

Charnwood milling is 8% Speedibeet 5% - neither make Jake's feet flat but would like to get sugar right down as it can only improve his hoot health. Kwikbeet sounds good at 3%
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horsesfirst · Joined: 08 Nov 2008 Posts: 486 Location: kent

Kwik beet does seem more palatable (sample of 2) than the shreds.

But manufacturer did say that the digestibility of Kwikbeet is also higher.

So the sugar content the same, but Kwikbeet more easily digested than shreds. Not sure how much this matters.

Little QH is very sensitive and does ok on the Kwikbeet.

brucea · Joined: 15 Feb 2008 Posts: 1603 Location: Aberdeen

My guys get the simple systems becuase it is the only unmollassed one I can find up here. But like all SS products it is a premium price.

We have speedibeet for "oops forgot to put beet on to soak" days - but they are not so keen on it and even <shock> sometimes leave some of it.
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jane stevens · Joined: 28 Jan 2008 Posts: 60 Location: devon

I use Simple systems pura beet - unmolassed - my horses do very well on it. I soak it overnight together with Copra in one big tub.
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maggiesmum · Joined: 17 Jun 2007 Posts: 61 Location: Audley, S-o-T

I use Fast fibre which I really like, although I wish they wouldn't insist on adding Garlic to it. I give it to my TB who can't have alfalfa. But the others get Trident unmolassed sugarbeet, its 12 hr soak pellets made by the same people who make the molassed stuff.

brucea · Joined: 15 Feb 2008 Posts: 1603 Location: Aberdeen

We just can't get the unmollassed Trident up here Crying or Very sad

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stormybracken · Joined: 31 Aug 2009 Posts: 375 Location: Dorset

Thank goodness someone has used the SS purabeet, I have a bag of it which I haven't dared open to see what its like in case it's mollassed as I no longer believe ANYTHING ANY manufacturer tells me. See what this has done to me? I'm sure I was never this cynical and disbelieving of the "experts" before.
Am going to be one of those old women who doesn't own a TV because "they" are watching her, and wears purple and green and lives with her 93 cats, who eventually eat her. Or I could go and poo-pick my fields, that usually restores sanity.

maggie345 · Joined: 22 Apr 2009 Posts: 158

Interesting. I'm trying to decide what to feed this winter too.
horsesfirst - where did you find the 3% sugar for Kwikbeet? I looked at the D&H webpage, but it doesn't list sugar content. Did you ask them? If you have a full analysis, could you put it into the "feed ingredients" thread?

I've tried out speedibeet on my horse, but he doesn't seem to like it much. Might give Kwikbeet a try.