Does rinsing molassed S/B help?

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Finding that regular soaked molassed sugar beet shreds have turned my sweet natured little yearling into the Stress-Head of The Year - someone suggested soaking it in extra water and sifting it several times until the water runs clear.

Sounds like a lot of agro to me, but does that work to reduce the sugar to tolerable levels?

Am trying to save pennies and Speedi Beet at the like are SO much more expensive. Would be good to find a away to use the £5 a bag stuff
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To be honest if you just over soak it and then scoop it out using a sieve, most of the molasses will stay in the water anyway.
 
*Tremble*

After the metamorphosis from sweetie to total off-her-head looney - I am positivley terrified of feeding the stuff to her again - without taking precautions!

OMG, having used SB all my life and pooh-poohing people who said it sent their horses loopy - I am now getting paid back quadruple-fold! Now I've stopped it her temperament has just dissolved back to loveliness again. Amazing change.

Would like to keep feeding the beet though (if I dare), even for just a couple more months as she's looking really lean and lanky ATM. Had a growth spurt and just looks dreadfully ribby still - even with the ad-lib haylage.
 
Are you using the trident one? they make an unmollased version which is priced somewhere between the regular SB and speedi-beet price.

Regular SB sends both of mine mad but as I feed them beet all year round I use speedi-beet. Have also used Kwik Beet which I think might be slightly cheaper but was a couple of years ago.
 
I agree that the whole sifting thing sounds like a pain - especially in the cold! i know Speedibeet sounds expensive but I use all the time and a sack lasts nearly a month and that feeds 2 horses twice a day and 3 ponies once a day. i had to use regular sb once when they had run out of Speedibeet but found it didn't go nearly as far (about 7 - 10 days) and took so much longer to soak. I find one stubbs scoop of Speedibeet topped up with 2 builder buckets of water fills the tub and will make up 6 horse feeds and 3 pony feeds.
 
Speedibeet and Kwikbeet are unmolassed. The standard sugarbeet pellets you soak for 12/24 hours are molassed. You should be fine on speedibeet or kwikbeet unless it is not the molasses that is causing the problem.

I prefer Kwikbeet tbh as the flakes are smaller and to my mind it (a) lasts longer and (b) gives a more regular consistency with no lumps when it's made up. Personal preference only though.
 
Mollassed sugar beet is often around 40% mollasses, and the miollasses part does not actually 'grow' in water, so though may seem cheaper actually makes up less of a bucket full.

Also my local feed Mill - Charnwood - does actually do un-branded (cheap!) unmollassed sugar beet pellets
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