Dave Bennett
Chickamauga, Georgia
email: benamil@juno.com
On Fri, 31 Oct 1997 12:11:53 -0800 Susan Evans Garlinghouse
<suendavid@worldnet.att.net> writes:
>> My husband left a 4o# bag of dry beet pulp in the back of the truck
>over
>> night by accident Two of my horses
>> got into it and munched abway........each got between 5-10lbs of DRY
>> pulp......
>
>> Anyone know anything I should know or concerns I should have
>if
>> thay don't eventually compact colic from that???
>
>
>Hi Rae,
>
>I'm not a DVM, but there actually are quite a few people who feed beet
>pulp dry and never have a problem. Alot of the research concerning
>beet
>pulp for horses also fed it dry for convenience sake and also never
>had
>a problem, so I would think you're probably okay. I usually suggest
>soaking to people because there ARE cases of it causing esophageal
>blockage, etc, and I tend to go with safer than sorry. Besides, I
>personally think one of soaked beet pulp's attractions is that my
>horses
>can munch at a big bucket of it all day long and get down more
>nutrition
>than with hay without the disadvantages of grain---though of course, I
>provide hay for roughage, as well.
>
>Anyway, I wouldn't worry about it.
>
>Susan
>
>