This is a good thread.
I'm having 'problems' with my unmollassed beet at the moment. I'm giving him SS Purabeet and his supplements and he doesn't eat most of it!
I wonder if he would eat more if I gave him the kwikbeet? He used to have kwikbeet but that was back when I fed him Baileys Lo-Cal too as I wasn't aware of the 'barefoot diet'!
He started turning his nose up at it when I stopped adding lucie stalks. Put them back in for a bit and he still didnt eat any more of it.
I'm thinking about maybe trying A&P Fast Fibre instead of purabeet in a bid to try and get him to eat it!
The minute the weather turned Grace decided she didn't need so much cal mag or brewers yeast - but we couldn't agree on how much she would/should eat (so she had a few days of rejecting the lot - doesn't go in for half measures). So I upped the Kwikbeet in relation to the CM & BY and now its all going down swiftly.
And as others have found - she won't eat it if the seaweed has been mixed in for any length of time.
Oh and I have to get the linseed just right too and she wants a bit less of that these days.
Little QH is not so fussy - unless the CM & BY get seriously too much in volume compared to the beet. Basically with her if it remains motionless for a while or is hay coloured it gets eaten. Including my dog, multiple headcollars, leadropes, the car bumper, anything wooden, the rain water barrel, other horses ..........
hehe horsesfirst! eating everything ... your poor dog!
Maybe thats what it is, he might be trying to tell me that he doesnt need as much MgO ... or linseed.
I'll do some experimenting!
I use Allen and Page Fast Fibre which is unmolassed beet based and they wolf it down. But they also eat most things abit like little QH of Horsesfirst !! Favourite at the moment is a sneaky gobful of chicken poo shavings when I am cleaning out the hens. Nice !! _________________ www.petportraitsbybonnie.blogspot.com
Last week (before this topic was born) I bought a bag of Speedibeet, thinking best after ones internet reserch and limited knowledge. Everyone lurves it and fed as a token feed as all still rather fat!
I did another trial with the speedibeet myself, and this time I did the rinse-soak-rinse routine before feeding. Just a small amount added to his usual bucket feed. This time, no funny faces and pawing from the horse. Either he's getting used to the taste, or maybe the r/s/r makes the BP more tasteless and less offending?
The rinsing water was pretty brown-greyish, I have to say, though I didn't find it sweet to the taste.
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