does speedibeet send horses loopy?

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as per title really.
My boy has lost LOTs of weight. He is 14.3 connemara x with history of laminitis. Can be bit bolshy on some feed and have to be careful with the lami history.

Vet and blacksmith said he is better off lighter than overweight which I agree with, but he is starting to look like a hat rack and the rspca would prosecute for! (well, maybe not quite)
He is 430kg lost alot of topline as was out of work since june with lami/ringbone.

Dont want to send him loopy as Im not the worlds most confident rider!!

He gets 4kg course hay (another 4kg if in through the day)
dengie hifi lite, handful of badminton fibre nuggets along with all sorts of supplements!
 
I feed my ickle TB Speedibeet - half a scoop or so twice a day - and it has made no difference to him at all, other than putting condition on him
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(Well the Baileys No4 and Alfa Oil also probably helped with that
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I though it was only the molassed beet that sometimes sends them loopy.

Speedibeet & Kwikbeet are unmolassed I think.

Have heard that some horses won't tolerate it, temperament wise.
 
i feed my TBx 2 scoops in the morning and 2 at night and it hasn't made any differance to her all it has done is help keep her weight on

if your horse is prone to lammi just try 1/2 a scoop to start of with and see how u got from there and increase it is you need to
hope that helps
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My TB x is on a scoop speedibeet morning and evening and is a dope...
I also feed it to my laminitic horse and my laminitis prone pony with no problems..
 
We usually feed sugar beet over winter but couldn't get it this year, so are feeding Speedibeet. Absolutely no problems. There is not really anything in it to make a horse loopy, but all horses are different and I expect someone has a horse that goes loopy on it!!
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Both of mine are fine on it - regular sugar beet turns them both into lunatics.

They get two round scoops (soaked) + one round scoop fibre nuts x2 per day to keep condition in winter. In summer I feed less depending on how they look.
 
Both my TB's were fine on sugarbeet. My Mare is now on the mollased stuff as that was all my dad could get for her over christmas and it doesn't seem to have made and ounce of difference
 
No, Speedibeet hasn't sent either of the horses I've had loopy.

I've also tried Fibrebeet, which is again excellent, and for the last few months I've been feeding him Alfa-Beet.

My boy lost loads of weight last year and it was a real struggle to get any weight on him. He was ill in the summer with colic and laminitis. He has had colic twice since then, so I have to be really careful with his feed.

He is on 1/2 round scoop Alfa-Beet, 1/2 round scoop Hifi Lite, 1/2 scoop Safe and Sound morning and night, and gets a small square scoop of D&H Hi Fibre Nuts in his ball at night. He usually has Pink Powder too, but currently run out. He has around 5-6 wedges of hay a night, about 3 in the morning with breakfast, and a couple out in the field. He is well rugged up and in at night. His weight is superb on this routine.
All the above feeds are safe for lami prone horses as they are Laminitis Trust Approved.
 
Here are some facts from the Speedibeet website regarding Speedibeet:

Quick and Convenient - UNDER 10 minutes
Unmolassed - 95% SUGAR FREE
Ideal Fibre source for horses prone to laminitis - low sugar/high fibre - a Laminitis Trust approved feed
Rapid re-hydration, non-heating, slow release energy, excellent complementary feedstuff to hard feed, extremely palatable, unique patented processing allows release of nutrients prior to hind gut fermentation

It is not heating, it does not make horses skittish, in has no molasses in it, it doesn't need soaking for 24 hours and it has less sugar in a whole scoop than in a medium sized carrot.
 
Going against the grain here but the horse I ride was on speedibeet and it seemed to make her very spooky but she didn't go particularly loopy though
 
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Baileys No.1 and Supa Barley rings are brilliant for weight gain by the way.

[/ QUOTE ] They are - but not suitable for laminitics, which the OP's horse is.
 
I really do think it depends on the horse. I have a very laid back horsey who I have just changed on to purabeet (simple system's sugarbeet pellet) he is very full of himself and just a little bit silly at the mo which is out of character and down to the change of feed (in my opinion). My other one who had a tendency towards nuttyness is fine (would have expected it to be the other way around).

Some horses react to speedibeet, some don't. It seems to be the same with alfalfa based products. The only way you will find out is by feeding it to your horse. Introduce it and slowly up the amount, only you will know if it makes a difference to their behaviour.
 
Hello! W have fed our horse speedi-beet and it didn't send him loopy. ( we fed it to him to keep abit of weight on in winter) Its meant to be slow realese energy as well so it shouldnt really send him loopy :P x
 
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