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Once the horses are USED to eating a ration with significant shredded beet pulp in it - you don't HAVE to soak.. Since they've figured out they have to take smaller bites and chew it like hay - unlike what they do with pellets/grains.

When I'm first introducing Shredded beet pulp to a horse/cow - I wet it 'lightly' prior to giving it to them... It starts expending almost immediately, so it's 'pre-expanded' when they first get a bite - instead of them gorging on it (like with pellets/grain) and it expanding within their throats and causing choke problems.  I do this for the first two weeks or so with horses, then slowly add less and less water - until it's dry.. By then, they've figured out HOW to eat it properly..... Now, I'm still wetting it for the cattle..

- LP