I don't use pellets, so I don't need to soak the shredded beet pulp at all
- just pour an equal amount of water over it when served. Doesn't have time to
get sticky, but you can make it nice and sloppy.
I use shredded beet pulp also. I feed it about 5-10
minutes after adding the water, about 2 times water to beet pulp. It plumps up
quickly, but it has never felt sticky, even a couple hours later when
there's a bit left in the bottom of the pan.. I have one horse, my hard keeper,
that likes it dry (almost 1/2 gal) with her 4 C of pelleted rice bran, so that's
the way she gets it. She also gets a quart of cob & a couple cups of oats in
her nightly 1/2 gal beet pulp mash, but if I make it sloppy for her, she'll just
splash it all out. I wouldn't dare feed any other horse this way, but it's
what keeps weight on her.
One of my horses(she's fostered out now) would get
laminitis from eating acorns, the others do fine with with them. I would put a
grazing bucket on the one that got laminitis, but I didn't then, and
still won't pick up all the acorns from my 50 oak
trees. One of my neighbor's horses is allergic to vaccinations, so he doesn't
get ANY, but her other 4 are all vaccinated. I guess what I'm saying is
that horses are individuals and we don't usually have treat them all for a
problem that one of them has, however, some people will choose to, and that's
their choice.
Kathy
p.s. I may have to check into that Oxy-Kick though. Where do you get
it Tom?
