Feeding Sugarbeet

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Hi everyone

Does anyone know how much sugarbeet you can feed per day.

I have a very fussy 32year old gelding who is getting very fussy with his feed. He can't manage hay/haylage anymore but seems to be enjoying eating very sloppy sugarbeet. I put a small amount of his veteran chaff, 16+ cubes and his senior conditioning mix mixed in (per feed) but I think he would be quite happy to just have the sugarbeet minus everything else.

Any advice would be appreciated

Many thanks
 
My boy is 35 bad teeth so he can only have chop or sloppy feeds. He is on roughly 3 kg a day of dry sugar beet (i do soak it) plus a large bucket of leigh senior chop and also 2 kg of barley rings mashed up with the sugar beet. He is a poor doer but loves his sugar beet and barley rings. This is putting the weight on him he has lost during the winter. Im not sure how much sugar beet to feed , it depends on the horse is he a good doer/ poor doer. My other two fatties have a handful of sugar beet with thier vits and mins in they really enjoy that too
 
Thanks Spottydottypony.

Last year he lost alot of weight but seemed to hold on to it more this year (I did move yards begining of last year to somewhere with better grazing). If I'm being honest, he could do with putting a bit more on but he's never been a gutsy horse so only eats what he wants too.

I've just ordered a bag of BlueChip Pro, so I'm hoping that this will help. He's really fussy with his chaff so I may start leaving the chaff out. I never thought of soaking the barley rings so that might be a good idea to try my boy on.
 
If he likes sloppy feed he might enjoy Fast Fibre, you can feed it as a complete hay replacer so there are very few worries of over feeding it :)
 
Thanks Team Barney.

Unfortunately, I tried this a few years ago and he didn't like it. I've also bought a sack of readigrass to try, he didn't like that either, whereas the year before he loved the stuff :confused:
 
Well at 32 I'd let the old boy eat exactly what he wants and just keep a close eye on him. He has made it to an excellent age and the older they get often the more awkward they are :p

If he wants to eat sugarbeet let him and just keep a watch out that his digestion is ok (no diarrhea ect.)

Speedibeet is also an option if he will eat non-molassed feed, mine turned his nose up initially but soon decided that actually it really was quite tasty still!

I'd keep up the chaff, give him a tub trug full as a hay-replacer just to give his guts some longish stem fibre.
 
Thanks Team Barney.

I give him a bucket full of spillers senior conditioning fibre (every night) but he only picks at it and never eats it all. I'm lucky if he eats a couple of mouth fulls
 
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