Confused...Sugar beet

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Anyone know how many kg 1 round scoop of sugar beet is. Ive made it quite watery. :-S
Also. Can a hand full of hi fi be fed with high fibre cubes or is it too much fibre. All suggestions welcome! :-D
 
No such thing as too much fibre
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Mine are all on a scoop HiFi, scoop High Fibre nuts and scoop speedibeet plus ad lib hay/haylage and grass. Fibre is what horses are designed to eat so you can't feed too much of it IMO.
How much a scoop weighs depends on how much water is added. You need to feed it according to how much it weighs dry.
 
As codswallop. Do you mean speedibeet/kwikbeet or the sugar beet pellets that you soak for 24 hours? Speedibeet isn't molassed but sugar beet pellets are. So if you're calorie counting your ned, go for unmolassed. There's tables I've seen somewhere that give the approximate weight of various common feeds including sugar beet by the coffee mug, stubbs scoop, flat scoop etc. No idea where I read it but someone will know!
 
Thanks guys, the fibre info is very helpful.

It is the sugar beet you soak for 24 hours. Just wondering how many scoops of sugar beet is acceptable for a horse in light / meduim work?
 
Wel! I was interested to know actual quantities as I just use an old ice cream tub as a scoop, a bucket and add water by eye! So I just measured it all for you
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I use 600g of the small diameter pellets (1.5 scoops) and two litres of water (about *there* in the bucket!).

I make up the bucket in the morning and it does that evening and the next mornings feeds. When hydrated I get two and a half of the same scoop to each feed. I would think it probably makes up about 2.5 to 3kg in all and I am feeding two horses, one 15.1hh and one 16hh, so that is four separate feeds. They ae in light work at the moment. They get soaked oats and corn oil too so the beet is really there to pad out their bucket.

The most important thing is to know how much your scoop weighs of any given feed. For instance, mine holds 400g of beet pellets but only 300g of dry oats and only 250g of the horse mix that I occasionally buy.

If you are just giving beet to get supplements down or whatever and are not feeding anything else, 1kg of soaked for a feed is fine.
 
No one shoot me for suggesting this, but.....

Doesn't 1 litre of water weigh 1 Kg? So if you haven't any scales, I'd work out how many litres of water your Stubbs scoop holds and guestimate that its litre capacity is about the same as the weight of the watery sugar beet it holds.
 
A word of warning that you can gte molassed or unmolassed sugar beet which you soak for 24 hrs. Obv depends on whether you re weight watching or not or have a horse which reacts to molasses. worth checking.
 
Reccomended amounts for feeding sugbeet are in dry weights usually.

Even though the amount might look a lot when soaked, it's fibre so ok to feed. I happily feed 1 scoop of dry weight a day to my TB's along with a scoop of alfa a.
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