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The amount of molasses added to beet pulp is pretty
negligible. It's not like sweet feed.Mostly it's added
to keep down the dust. I haven't seen any difference
in my horses in their behavior or anything else
between using the molasses or nonmolasses beet pulp.

A tip, if you add sweet feed, don't let the beet pulp
soak too long, or else add teh feed just before you
give the food to the horse. The sweet feed will turn
sour long before the beet pulp does.

LOL about the turkeys.

Sigh, about the  show person...You might ask her how
kind and gentle it is to "wall" a halter horse.

chris
--- Agilbxr@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Ok, bought my first bag of beet pulp.  I
> specifically asked for shredded beet 
> pulp/no molasses please.  Got it home, and found
> they'd given me the kind 
> with molasses.  Sigh... So, after careful
> deliberation, I'm going to use this bag 
> to get the nag used to it, then buy the non-molasses
> type after, if I have to 
> order it myself from the manufacturer.  So, I open
> up the bag, and never 
> having seen beet pulp before, kind of wondered if my
> horse would eat it.  It looks 
> like big cat nip.  I took two cups of beet pulp, and
> put a lot of water in a 
> bucket (I've read the squirrel story and realized is
> soaked up a lot of 
> water...ya'll weren't kidding!), added a handfull of
> sweet feed and a couple of 
> alfalfa cubes, and let it soak while I went riding. 
>
>
> Came back from my ride, tied my horse up, pulled his
> tack, hosed him down, 
> and went into the feed room for my bucket of beet
> pulp.  Imagine my surprise 
> when I get in there to find the two turkeys that
> live at our barn have tipped 
> over the bucket of beet pulp and are happily
> munching away.  Does beet pulp 
> fatten turkeys too??  It's probably a good thing
> these guys are pets.  Apparently 
> they liked it cause I had to pick them up and move
> them...and they weigh a ton. 
>  Alpine liked his beet pulp too.  Yay!
>
> As for commen endurance misconceptions, there is a
> lady who boards her 4 
> arabs at this barn.  She has raised halter arabs,
> and if you ask her she'll tell 
> you she knows everything about arabs.  And give you
> the history of her four 
> (which by my standards, are nice horses, but
> spoiled, fat, and prone to bucking). 
>  She informed my Saturday, after looking at my Paso
> and telling me he was 
> plain, then asking what I did with him (I said I was
> training for endurance), 
> that her horses would NEVER do endurance.  Maybe
> competitive trail because they 
> actually use veterinarians and check them, but not
> endurance.  Endurance riders 
> just try to kill their horses by running as fast as
> they can, and she doens't 
> understand why someone doesn't do something about
> it.  Sigh...  I shook my 
> head and wandered back to my beet pulp.
>
> Juli and Alpine (beet pulp is yummy, but I don't
> like it dry)

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Chris and Star

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