Re: Feeding/hay suggestions

[Amanda Perez <amandaperez@ureach.com>]

  Well, if you've been reading ridecamp at any length of time 
at all, you have of course considered beet pulp?  I just 
started my TWH on it and he loved it from the start, no "What 
the heck is THAT?!?!" reaction at all.  I had been giving him 
Triple Crown chopped grass forage, but he was not crazy about 
it, hence the switch to beet-pulp.  I'm fazing out the chop and 
fazing in the beet-pulp.  I plan to give him all the beet-pulp 
he'll eat in the time alloted (about 40 minutes: I feed him on 
my way to work).

You could also try the Triple Crown chopped forage.  I got it 
at Southern States.  Costs $12/50 lb bag (a bag of beet pulp 
costs about the same).  The chopped forage can be be dusty, so 
I wet it.  Big advantage is consistant quality (nutritional 
data is on the bag), sometimes hard to get with local hay.  A 
50 lb bag lasted me about 2 weeks when I was feeding it 
exclusively, but Cy was on decent pasture at the time.  Triple 
Crown makes alfalfa, grass+alfalfa, and straight grass chopped 
forage mixes- I fed just the grass mix. I would have stuck with 
it but Cy would not finish it, and I got tired of pitching left-
overs out, so I am switching to the beet pulp which, so far, he 
snarfs down.

If you want the gory details of my feeding regime: Cy is now on 
pasture that is chewed pretty bare, and gets hay, but he's in 
with a herd of 20+ horses, so I am not sure how much hay he 
ends up getting, so I give him about 2 lb sweet feed (10% 
protein), chopped forage (started with about 4 lbs, down to 
less than 1 lb now), beet pulp (4 qt measures dry), about 1 cup 
corn oil and 1 oz Mega Mag supplement, all mixed and soaked in 
1 gal hot water.  He gets this in the AM only (boarding 
siutation is less than ideal, not feasible to feed in PM but he 
does get hay in the PM).

Hope this helps

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