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Re: [RC] Feed in Soth Africa - Maryanne GabbaniI've been checking out beet pulp here in Egypt but so far not impressed with things like cleanliness of plant and so on. We worry about fermentation if it hasn't been dried properly. Who knows? Maybe someday.I've found that the change from even being in a box for the night to being out 24/7 can do wonders for horses' mentality. i have 12 horses on about an acre and a half. No grazing, just sand, because I had to choose between healthy feet and a bit of green for them. When I had them on grass at the old place, we had to water so much to keep the grass growing that we were having hoof issues. Now on the sand, they have lots of rice hay to munch on and the hoofs are much, much better. I recently started using hay cubes that are locally produced from a local clover...they say it's alfalfa but Egyptians are amazingly cavalier with the names of plants and animals....that a friend had been using for some time now. Lesley runs a boarding/ lesson barn down the road and I figured that I'd let her be the guinea pig since a lot of our parameters for our horses are the same....mostly neither of us can afford to have horses that are so hot that they are a hazard to riders. She found that the hay cubes worked for some of her horses, not for all. Some of them got rather screwy on them, so when I started my gang on them, we did so with caution. However, we haven't found any of them getting silly or hot. Perhaps it's because it really is so bloody hot these days that it's an effort to breathe most of the day, or maybe it's because they are outside and can move around as they like. We'll see how it goes. Maryanne Giza On Jul 4, 2006, at 8:52 AM, Budler,Cindy - Afrox wrote: My mare's behaviour has changed radically - I am not sure if it is the food =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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